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This is not politics, it's a "letter to the editor" or an opinion piece (a well cited one at that).
by josefresco 7y ago
This is not politics, it's a "letter to the editor" or an opinion piece (a well cited one at that).
- 29_29 7y agoIts an advocacy piece that isn't about any tech solution. Its just negative energy. Go to https://www.dailykos.com/ https://www.dailykos.com/
- eropple 7y agoIf discussing actual problems distresses you so, and it's made worse by the lack of a "tech solution", I'm afraid I have some really upsetting news for you in general about the world at large. The Kos references are just bizarre spittleflecking and you should stop.
- 29_29 7y agoWhat is bizarre is the agenda pushed on Hackernews all the time. Sorry bro, I come to a hacker site to learn about tech. I'm always going to point out when people are pushing an agenda.
- eropple 7y agoThe idea, "bro", of a hacker being monomaniacally interested in "tech" is a recently-developed fiction. It's very difficult to describe, for example, the cypherpunk movement as anything other than "hacker" in nature, yet they did not restrict themselves to what a venture capitalist had to say about X or what that hot new processor could do; why should anyone else? That idea, in addition to being historically and contemporaneously wrong, manages to be dishonest, too; you, too, are pushing an agenda--it's just one comfortable with the status quo.
- detaro 7y agoHN explicitly is not just about tech. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- 29_29 7y agowould you settle for a hn/politics tab so myself and others do not get sucked into this political toilet with you?