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Been in tech a long time. Been on HN a long time. Over the past few years reading comments here it seems that the people are already communist and the governm

Been in tech a long time. Been on HN a long time. Over the past few years reading comments here it seems that the people are already communist and the government is just now catching up. Trump helped avoid it for a short while. Tech used to be creative, respectful, and open. I simply cannot believe the commenters here are my peers. The double speak, double standards, and vitriol toward anything Trump/conservative related is unbelievable. Now that the real fascists have power, there is big trouble ahead. Conform or lose everything. Just like the CCP. Thanks for the good times.

w0de 6y ago
This is delusional. I recommend you set a reminder to re-evaluate this statement in 5 years.
- djsumdog 6y ago
  I recommend you address the arguments and concerns without insulting the person making it and calling them delusional. That's not only against HN policies, it kinda emphases OPs point.
  - w0de 6y ago
    Ok - his 'argument' reflects, I believe, a delusion about the state of American politics. Specifically, he appears to believe that Joe Biden winning the previous election is a harbinger for a leftist totalitarian state in America. This is patently ridiculous - he doesn't deploy rhetoric of the radical left, his policies and record are far to the right of democratic leftist parties in Europe and elsewhere, etc. On its face it is a ridiculous thing to assert. I don't believe, however, that I can convince the poster of their delusion. Therefore I wanted to present the best evidence for it: reality, as I expect it to be, in five years.
ceilingcorner 6y ago
Just wanted to say I second your comment. I have absolutely zero love for Trump and his clownish supporters, but the partisanship on display here is truly absurd. I really worry for the future if these are the individuals at the heads of major tech corps.
djsumdog 6y ago
I agree entirely. I've often gone to the bottoms of comment threads on controversial topics. It should no longer be a +vote or -vote. Most + is orthodox and most - is heterodoxy. We are seeing the fracture of the human mind. Part of it is simply the lockdowns which prevent us from being able to see and talk to each other openly. I just wrote about this before all the insanity happened: https://battlepenguin.com/philosophy/the-fracturing-of-the-human-mind/ https://battlepenguin.com/philosophy/the-fracturing-of-the-h... I get - votes and people yelling at me for bad faith all the time in this thread, but I cannot simply ignore it anymore. Someone has to call people out on their intolerance and media fueled 24/7 hate. We are not in Orwell's world, because there is no way Orwell could even make this shit up. This world would frighten Orwell, and when you bring up 1984, some people will even tell you that Orwell supported fascism. > “Don’t you see the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expresses in exactly ONE word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten” -George Orwell, 1984 The hard left is controlling language. Major dictionaries changed the definition of a phrase because of what a D-Hawaii said on the floor during a Supreme Court confirmation hearing. This is insanity. "So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause." -Star Wars II

w0de 6y ago

This is delusional. I recommend you set a reminder to re-evaluate this statement in 5 years.

djsumdog 6y ago
I recommend you address the arguments and concerns without insulting the person making it and calling them delusional. That's not only against HN policies, it kinda emphases OPs point.
- w0de 6y ago
  Ok - his 'argument' reflects, I believe, a delusion about the state of American politics. Specifically, he appears to believe that Joe Biden winning the previous election is a harbinger for a leftist totalitarian state in America. This is patently ridiculous - he doesn't deploy rhetoric of the radical left, his policies and record are far to the right of democratic leftist parties in Europe and elsewhere, etc. On its face it is a ridiculous thing to assert. I don't believe, however, that I can convince the poster of their delusion. Therefore I wanted to present the best evidence for it: reality, as I expect it to be, in five years.

ceilingcorner 6y ago

Just wanted to say I second your comment. I have absolutely zero love for Trump and his clownish supporters, but the partisanship on display here is truly absurd. I really worry for the future if these are the individuals at the heads of major tech corps.

djsumdog 6y ago

I agree entirely. I've often gone to the bottoms of comment threads on controversial topics. It should no longer be a +vote or -vote. Most + is orthodox and most - is heterodoxy. We are seeing the fracture of the human mind. Part of it is simply the lockdowns which prevent us from being able to see and talk to each other openly. I just wrote about this before all the insanity happened: https://battlepenguin.com/philosophy/the-fracturing-of-the-human-mind/ https://battlepenguin.com/philosophy/the-fracturing-of-the-h... I get - votes and people yelling at me for bad faith all the time in this thread, but I cannot simply ignore it anymore. Someone has to call people out on their intolerance and media fueled 24/7 hate. We are not in Orwell's world, because there is no way Orwell could even make this shit up. This world would frighten Orwell, and when you bring up 1984, some people will even tell you that Orwell supported fascism. > “Don’t you see the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expresses in exactly ONE word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten” -George Orwell, 1984 The hard left is controlling language. Major dictionaries changed the definition of a phrase because of what a D-Hawaii said on the floor during a Supreme Court confirmation hearing. This is insanity. "So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause." -Star Wars II