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This article is inflammatory and slanted. It seems like the author cares less about reporting than about driving an anti-regulatory agenda.

by keyanp 10y ago

Loughla 10y ago
Slanted is an understatement. The following words are from the article, written by the author, and take the article out of the realm of actual reporting, and into the realm of bullshit --opinion-- >hilariously >The City Of Austin Is Embarrassing Itself >ham-fisted >absurd >un-ironic cluelessness >senior correspondent for The Federalist. That last one was an insult.
- deftnerd 10y ago
  This link was originally dead but I vouched for it as I was just a few paragraphs into reading it. If I read all the way through, I would have left it dead. The content started just fine but progressively gets worse and worse with the authors opinions and vitriolic anger coloring the work.
- peterwwillis 10y ago
  Go check out the rest of The Federalist's articles. For example, The Federalist Editors And Friends Discuss Kim Kardashian's Butt, Why Bernie Sanders Supporters Should Vote Trump, How Environmentalists Opened The Door For Zika, and my favorite, America’s War On The Confederacy Is Really A War On The Past.
wahsd 10y ago
The newcomer Austinites that have flooded into the city over the last years are immensely butt-hurt about the whole Lyft/Uber ordeal. I suspect the first time someone is robbed or raped we'll get a cry-bully rant pushing blame onto the city.
- peterwwillis 10y ago
  Forcing people to use illegal transportation does victimize people, and if the city is forcing the transportation to be illegal, said victims are the city's responsibility.
ncr100 10y ago
+1 - not an analytical article / bit of authorship. The author labels as "onerous [regulations imposed by Austin City]" (in the linked article he wrote) avoiding providing detail for the regulations he judges as onerous: "It seems there’s no new product or service that meddling liberals won’t figure out a way to regulate out of existence under the pretense of knowing what’s best for you. "Over the weekend in the liberal bastion of Austin, Texas, a handful of pro-regulation voters opted to keep in place a host of petty, irrational, and burdensome regulations the city council imposed on ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft in December." Ironically ending the unanalytical article with: "I know it sounds crazy, but it’s almost like they don’t care about solving these problems." - http://thefederalist.com/2016/05/10/uber-lyft-were-driven-out-of-austin/ http://thefederalist.com/2016/05/10/uber-lyft-were-driven-ou...
- ncr100 10y ago
  Why is this particular article on HN? Look at the poster image - using a commonly maligned ethnic minority as the "face" of this movement. An attempt at bigotry IMO.
  - blisterpeanuts 10y ago
    A Sikh?

This article is inflammatory and slanted. It seems like the author cares less about reporting than about driving an anti-regulatory agenda.

by keyanp 10y ago

This article is inflammatory and slanted. It seems like the author cares less about reporting than about driving an anti-regulatory agenda.

Loughla 10y ago

Slanted is an understatement. The following words are from the article, written by the author, and take the article out of the realm of actual reporting, and into the realm of bullshit --opinion-- >hilariously >The City Of Austin Is Embarrassing Itself >ham-fisted >absurd >un-ironic cluelessness >senior correspondent for The Federalist. That last one was an insult.

deftnerd 10y ago
This link was originally dead but I vouched for it as I was just a few paragraphs into reading it. If I read all the way through, I would have left it dead. The content started just fine but progressively gets worse and worse with the authors opinions and vitriolic anger coloring the work.
peterwwillis 10y ago
Go check out the rest of The Federalist's articles. For example, The Federalist Editors And Friends Discuss Kim Kardashian's Butt, Why Bernie Sanders Supporters Should Vote Trump, How Environmentalists Opened The Door For Zika, and my favorite, America’s War On The Confederacy Is Really A War On The Past.

wahsd 10y ago

The newcomer Austinites that have flooded into the city over the last years are immensely butt-hurt about the whole Lyft/Uber ordeal. I suspect the first time someone is robbed or raped we'll get a cry-bully rant pushing blame onto the city.

peterwwillis 10y ago
Forcing people to use illegal transportation does victimize people, and if the city is forcing the transportation to be illegal, said victims are the city's responsibility.

ncr100 10y ago

+1 - not an analytical article / bit of authorship. The author labels as "onerous [regulations imposed by Austin City]" (in the linked article he wrote) avoiding providing detail for the regulations he judges as onerous: "It seems there’s no new product or service that meddling liberals won’t figure out a way to regulate out of existence under the pretense of knowing what’s best for you. "Over the weekend in the liberal bastion of Austin, Texas, a handful of pro-regulation voters opted to keep in place a host of petty, irrational, and burdensome regulations the city council imposed on ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft in December." Ironically ending the unanalytical article with: "I know it sounds crazy, but it’s almost like they don’t care about solving these problems." - http://thefederalist.com/2016/05/10/uber-lyft-were-driven-out-of-austin/ http://thefederalist.com/2016/05/10/uber-lyft-were-driven-ou...

ncr100 10y ago
Why is this particular article on HN? Look at the poster image - using a commonly maligned ethnic minority as the "face" of this movement. An attempt at bigotry IMO.
- blisterpeanuts 10y ago
  A Sikh?