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If John's C's first public expression of political opinion isn't Hacker News, I don't know what is.
by drcode 16y ago
If John's C's first public expression of political opinion isn't Hacker News, I don't know what is.
- davidw 16y agoIf we start down that path, then someone will take it on themselves to start posting stuff from here: http://stallman.org/ http://stallman.org/ And then someone else will post reason.org articles, and then Krugman columns and on and on and on. Just have a bit of self-restraint and keep the politics elsewhere. I mean, are any of the comments above really something that has not been hashed out 1000 times on the internet? Just for fun, we do some usenet digging and find results for "libertarian taxes force" from between 25 and 20 years ago: http://groups.google.com/groups/search?as_q=libertarian+taxes+force&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=10&scoring=&lr=&as_sitesearch=&as_qdr=&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1985&as_maxd=1&as_maxm=1&as_maxy=1990&as_ugroup=&as_usubject=&as_uauthors=&safe=off http://groups.google.com/groups/search?as_q=libertarian+taxe... There are people on this site who had not even been conceived when these same arguments were already going back and forth.
- khafra 16y agoI can't point to an in-depth political essay in the past, but from reading Carmack's writings in the past, I was extraordinarily unsurprised by this one. I wouldn't call this his first public expression of political opinion; more like his first comprehensive roll-up of his political expressions.