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    Software meant to enrich its creator often isn’t because of the pervasive captialist fear of alienating someone by expressing an opinion on one side of an issue (edit: actually, against the mainstream narrative). However, formally verified, thoroughly-vetted, open source software (most of which doesn’t exist because of pushback from corrupt governments and their corporate overlords) tasked with upholding the anonymity and objectivity of democracy would be undeniably political.

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      Software meant to enrich its creator often isn’t

      This is a prime example of what I alluded to in my comment. For-profit capitalism is the establishment politics, so it’s portraid as apolitical.

      Also, the establishment politics of the public that must not be challenged in order to make money? Apolitical.

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        I’d agree there for sure.

        For example, they might call it apolitical to say “Israel has a right to defend itself” in the US right now. But that is the SUPER political, absolutely disgusting, reprehensible statement that finally made me lose all respect for Bernie Sanders once and for all. It’s just that this statement lies on the other side of the AIPAC’s widespread propaganda campaign to make their genocide legal.