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You haven't seen any of this stuff? There's been multiple frontpage articles on HN alone about financial institution based censorship. The Canadian government i

by rabite 5y ago

You haven't seen any of this stuff? There's been multiple frontpage articles on HN alone about financial institution based censorship. The Canadian government is gloating in public about banning people from the banking system and getting them fired from their jobs in the past week. I am absolutely stunned you haven't heard about any of this happening.

vba616 5y ago
>There's been multiple frontpage articles on HN alone I was replying to your original comment, focusing on the real world around me. You wrote "the physical world crumbling around us is something that we can all see with our present eyes" And "Simple things like visiting a grocery store or driving down the streets of ones childhood home are extremely alienating things that generate nothing but loathing and regret" I live on the edge of a small American city (roughly 1 million greater urban area) where it's only a few miles between downtown and the suburbs so I do errands anywhere in the vicinity. Early in the pandemic, it was the suburban grocery stores that had significant numbers of people who seemed pushy, vaguely angry at the world, and maybe 1/4 of them not wearing masks. I was more comfortable going to the inner city grocery store because everybody was wearing a mask and keeping their distance. Not that I was particularly paranoid about the virus, just because it felt less hostile and less crowded. The scariest thing I've seen there was a pickup truck plastered Florida-style with graphics and lettering about somebody's paranoid fantasies, vendettas, and politics. It straight up looked like someone who might randomly murder you if they learned you worked for state government because they think the governor is some kind of evil dictator coming to take their guns. I don't see my neighborhood crumbling. Haven't been to my "childhood home" but I don't think anything in particular has happened to the street it's on.

by rabite 5y ago

vba616 5y ago

>There's been multiple frontpage articles on HN alone I was replying to your original comment, focusing on the real world around me. You wrote "the physical world crumbling around us is something that we can all see with our present eyes" And "Simple things like visiting a grocery store or driving down the streets of ones childhood home are extremely alienating things that generate nothing but loathing and regret" I live on the edge of a small American city (roughly 1 million greater urban area) where it's only a few miles between downtown and the suburbs so I do errands anywhere in the vicinity. Early in the pandemic, it was the suburban grocery stores that had significant numbers of people who seemed pushy, vaguely angry at the world, and maybe 1/4 of them not wearing masks. I was more comfortable going to the inner city grocery store because everybody was wearing a mask and keeping their distance. Not that I was particularly paranoid about the virus, just because it felt less hostile and less crowded. The scariest thing I've seen there was a pickup truck plastered Florida-style with graphics and lettering about somebody's paranoid fantasies, vendettas, and politics. It straight up looked like someone who might randomly murder you if they learned you worked for state government because they think the governor is some kind of evil dictator coming to take their guns. I don't see my neighborhood crumbling. Haven't been to my "childhood home" but I don't think anything in particular has happened to the street it's on.