exocrinous

No, I fully understand that the word politics is a racist dogwhistle that few people use meaningfully, and I understood it at the beginning. You presented a bunch of different theories as to the word's meaning, I pointed out the problem with each of them, and we arrived back at the beginning, the headline of this article we're all replying to.

I use the logical definition of politics, which implies everything is political, as a starting point for these conversations which always end in the conclusion that people don't know what they're saying. I've had this conversation dozens of times.

I'll tell you why people don't know what politics means. It's because the rich don't want them to know. Those who own the government and who are threatened by democracy do not want people realising that participating in politics is a good thing. So they use the media apparatus to teach people that politics is no fun, leads to hurt feelings, and never fixes anything. And people swallow that trick hook, line, and sinker.

The ideal case for the rich is that most people hate politics, a select brainwashed few vote conservative while starting horrible culture wars, and nobody actually participates in democracy. And that's what everyone who hates politics is supporting. The end goal is simple. It's voter suppression. And along the way, there will of course be genocide as the cost of doing business.

Hooray! Let's start building grid storage! I hear California really needs batteries.

No it's not. Games are either realist or irrealist. Both are political. I've never seen a game that was neither.

My ego? I don't have much of an ego, I'm just a regular drone. If you think I'm important though thanks

I don't. I literally just said the opposite. I said people have no idea what the word means, and then you asked why I expect people to have a shared understanding of the word. Those are opposites. If people don't know what a word means, then they can't have a shared understanding. This should be obvious to you, pay attention.

You're telling a very blatant and easily disproven lie. You're currently claiming you didn't consider me more than surface level. But earlier, you claimed that you knew that I was hiding my motivations for choosing my diet.

Yes it does. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cult

Oh, you don't like the real world? That's a political ideology, it's called soulism. Look it up, it might appeal to you, since it sounds like you're already a soulist.

Politics doesn't have anything to do with the amount of effort it takes to play a game. You're confusing two vastly different concepts. Ultimately what you are saying is that you want a game devoid of meaning, which you feel no obligation to understand or judge. That's not politics, but it is interesting, because I have typically only heard the assertion that art should not have meaning from gamers and nazis.

Okay, so that's not actually using a definition, that's what I like to call "vibes based meanings", which are largely useless and serve only to reveal that most people have no idea what the word political means and just use vibes.