don't worry, everybody will be politicizing the hobbies soon enoughhttps://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1018359192690855937 …
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Replying to @hradzka
This is the story of the post-2010 culture war in fact. It's hard to think of a hobby community that *hasn't* been overrun by maenads.
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I was gonna say hobbies that resemble work are probably safer, but consider what's happened to open source
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Replying to @St_Rev
my take on hobbies that are likely to politicize: 1) the hobby can potentially lead to high-paying or high-status work 2) the hobby happens to be practiced by already-politicized people
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meanwhile, magic the gathering
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Replying to @TristanSevers @hradzka
Yeah, case in point. Low-status, little pay, formerly apolitical. The drive is winning souls for Christ (and lording over the wretched).
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