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> Some of the labeling heard today What do you have in mind, in particular? They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume
by GW150914 8y ago
> Some of the labeling heard today
What do you have in mind, in particular?
They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
From the man who is now the president of the country with the world’s largest economy and military. I’m sorry if this bothers people because it’s political, but it’s a fair answer to the weak question asked.
- mattnewton 8y agoDon’t know what’s political about answering that question directly except that it’s from a Trump quote. I suppose most people would prefer everyone just not answer here - in which case I wonder what this article is doing on hacker news at all if we don’t want to have this discussion here.
- masonic 8y agoExcept that's not the actual quote.
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- evgen 8y agoThe actual lines are: "They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people." Explain how prior comment differs significantly from the actual quote.
- icebraining 8y agoSeems accurate to me: https://youtu.be/Jaz1J0s-cL4?t=27s https://youtu.be/Jaz1J0s-cL4?t=27s
- jerf 8y agoHN is at least 90% anti-Trump. If you're getting downvoted for a Trump criticism, you've screwed up somewhere other than pissing off the three people on HN who have voting privileges and like Trump.
- noobermin 8y agoThat isn't my experience. Every Trump critical post is downvoted heavily even when it is on topic and related.
- mwfunk 8y agoThere’s a dark underbelly of incel/redpill/GamerGate people in the tech world who are easily triggered by other perspectives, and my impression is that nearly everyone who would identify with those groups are Trump supporters. I could be wrong, but anecdotally, it sure seems that way. Given that they appear to be motivated by emotions, and portray themselves as victims, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if a small handful of such people spent inordinate amounts of time managing a bunch of sock puppet accounts just to amplify their downvoting power. If so, it is a strange and ironic phenomenon.
- crankylinuxuser 8y agoI'd go a bit deeper, honestly. Peter Thiel is a avowed Trump supporter, and a billionaire who was a YCombinator partner from 2015-2017. Combine it with this article https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-valley-billionaires-are-prepping-for-the-apocalypse-in-new-zealand https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-val... and "In 2016, Sam Altman, one of Silicon Valley’s most influential entrepreneurs, revealed to the New Yorker that he had an arrangement with Thiel whereby in the eventuality of some kind of systemic collapse scenario – synthetic virus breakout, rampaging AI, resource war between nuclear-armed states, so forth – they both get on a private jet and fly to a property Thiel owns in New Zealand." I think this is pretty straight-forward that these hidden/flagged posts isn't some sort of bot army, but instead having a button on the mod-switch at the root console for this website. To me, it's clear that Thiel was the one who put his head out espousing Trump support, to see how the tech community would take it. But I think at least in the elites in SV, they're all Trump supporters.