imo it's not that we're pretending not to do politics, it's abt not hijacking ppl's attention with emotive political slogans- trying to engage system 2 rather than system 1 thinking
being a bit obscure means the takes don't pattern-match into red tribe / blue tribe allegiance, so ppl who wanna do the dogpile politics scroll past, leaving space for slower smaller conversations
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