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and your points would be fully regurgitated from Russian state media, congrats to you as well. as far as "shooting", liberals would prefer there were no guns,

by zzzeek 4y ago

and your points would be fully regurgitated from Russian state media, congrats to you as well. as far as "shooting", liberals would prefer there were no guns, so yes, any "shooting" by anyone at anyone is of great concern to us. The "liberal" NYT had a full above-the-fold headline for the Scalise shooting, it was taken entirely seriously by the "media elites": https://mobile.twitter.com/BFriedmanDC/status/1586471174011490304 https://mobile.twitter.com/BFriedmanDC/status/15864711740114... . The Pelosi attacker was also right-wing radicalized after originally being a left-wing radical, as you are most likely aware so the GREEN PARTY registration is a strawman. The reductionist implication that the political landscape is nothing more than "both sides are trying to radicalize and kill each other" has no basis in fact and only serves to change the subject from the issue that right wing terrorism is the greatest US terrorist threat right now. Lockheed last I checked was not trying to corner a huge portion of the social media market and they aren't run unilaterally by a narcissistic shitposter with dumb opinions, so while the military industrial complex is not entirely fun, the comparison is pretty nonexistent.

zo1 4y ago
Wow. Imagine a popular OSS author having the opposite viewpoints as you and publicly espousing it on HN. I can't think of one, wonder why. No wonder you guys are all upset about this, the social gravy train is going away.
- zzzeek 4y ago
  popular OSS authors, who are in the business of giving their work away for free and helping others use it for free, tend to not be fascists. The core decision one makes, typically early in life, that leads them down the "liberal" or "conservative" path is the decision as to whether or not other people matter. also I have no clue what this "gravy train" you refer towards means. Liberal and left-leaning voices who are too outspoken live under a constant regime of death threats, stalking, and harassment. Right wing extremists pretty much have the microphone already, as I walk in my suburban neighborhood, every TV screen I see through a window is pegged onto FOX all day long. So not really sure what you're talking about.

by zzzeek 4y ago

zo1 4y ago

Wow. Imagine a popular OSS author having the opposite viewpoints as you and publicly espousing it on HN. I can't think of one, wonder why. No wonder you guys are all upset about this, the social gravy train is going away.

zzzeek 4y ago
popular OSS authors, who are in the business of giving their work away for free and helping others use it for free, tend to not be fascists. The core decision one makes, typically early in life, that leads them down the "liberal" or "conservative" path is the decision as to whether or not other people matter. also I have no clue what this "gravy train" you refer towards means. Liberal and left-leaning voices who are too outspoken live under a constant regime of death threats, stalking, and harassment. Right wing extremists pretty much have the microphone already, as I walk in my suburban neighborhood, every TV screen I see through a window is pegged onto FOX all day long. So not really sure what you're talking about.