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I live in Austin where people are still lamenting SXSW being canceled and the Democrat Mayor was still encouraging people to go out to concerts after he cancele

I live in Austin where people are still lamenting SXSW being canceled and the Democrat Mayor was still encouraging people to go out to concerts after he canceled SXSW. And the tech press mocked "no handshakes" until less than a month ago. Stupid knows no political party.

nojvek 7y ago
The only way I see the mocking change is when they see their close ones being infected. We haven't seen anything like this (at-least in our lifetime) where the entire world was in semi-lockdown. Sure our president is really downplaying it, but how do you even fight something that makes some people sick, and not others. There could be 1000s of carriers of COVID-19 who don't even know it.
inferiorhuman 7y ago
Stupid knows no political party. It's a spectrum of stupid. Moscow Mitch is holding up financial relief because it's a good opportunity to stick it to Planned Parenthood.
- caseysoftware 7y ago
  Your anti-Russia, nationalist rhetoric is not welcome here.
  - inferiorhuman 7y ago
    You're conflating self-determination with nationalism, and the upvotes I got would suggest that HN is generally OK with calling out foreign election interference.
    - caseysoftware 7y ago
      Looks like lots of people consider them the same. "Nationalism is an ideology and movement that promotes the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people) especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining the nation's sovereignty (self-governance) over its homeland. Nationalism holds that each nation should govern itself, free from outside interference (self-determination), that a nation is a natural and ideal basis for a polity,[2] and that the nation is the only rightful source of political power (popular sovereignty)." Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism

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I live in Austin where people are still lamenting SXSW being canceled and the Democrat Mayor was still encouraging people to go out to concerts after he cancele

by caseysoftware 7y ago

nojvek 7y ago
The only way I see the mocking change is when they see their close ones being infected. We haven't seen anything like this (at-least in our lifetime) where the entire world was in semi-lockdown. Sure our president is really downplaying it, but how do you even fight something that makes some people sick, and not others. There could be 1000s of carriers of COVID-19 who don't even know it.
inferiorhuman 7y ago
Stupid knows no political party. It's a spectrum of stupid. Moscow Mitch is holding up financial relief because it's a good opportunity to stick it to Planned Parenthood.
- caseysoftware 7y ago
  Your anti-Russia, nationalist rhetoric is not welcome here.
  - inferiorhuman 7y ago
    You're conflating self-determination with nationalism, and the upvotes I got would suggest that HN is generally OK with calling out foreign election interference.
    - caseysoftware 7y ago
      Looks like lots of people consider them the same. "Nationalism is an ideology and movement that promotes the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people) especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining the nation's sovereignty (self-governance) over its homeland. Nationalism holds that each nation should govern itself, free from outside interference (self-determination), that a nation is a natural and ideal basis for a polity,[2] and that the nation is the only rightful source of political power (popular sovereignty)." Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism