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15 years ago I read Lifehacker daily. Top article on Lifehacker right now: Donald Trump news. If they go back to publishing quality life hacks I’ll go back to

15 years ago I read Lifehacker daily. Top article on Lifehacker right now: Donald Trump news. If they go back to publishing quality life hacks I’ll go back to reading them. “Toxic” comments section or not.

GuB-42 4y ago
Yep, I was hoping to see more lifehacks and less politics, and it seemed to be the case... until now. Il the last years, it was full blown propaganda for the US democratic party and against republicans, which brought a matching audience of political activists that I think that it off topic and even toxic. Keep it about lifehacks. Why can't republicans have good lifehacks? That should be a politically neutral topic.
- tomrod 4y ago
  > it was full blown propaganda for the US democratic party and against republicans Really hard to blame Lifehacker, considering the damage done to legal precedent and other tomfoolery. Oh, to be sufficiently privileged to be able to ignore the macroeconomic and political trends. My grandparents taught me that politics aint about people. They learned that in the Depression. It's about existing power structures, deciding winners and losers. Demographically the GOP as a power player is living on borrowed time and doing everything it can to consolidate power and rebrand itself, in large part because its major three tents in its coalition (poverty-stricken disaffected [sometimes called eat-the-rich], business conservative, evangelical Christian) are not natural allies (as well as the latter two decreasing dramatically in both numbers and support). May the party of malcontent fail and more community-focused coalitions take the reins.
  - mardifoufs 4y ago
    Funnily enough, most of the "trump obsessed" liberals are usually extremely privileged white people. I guess not having tons of actual issues and struggles in real life, and living a life of privilege makes it easy for people to look for "existential threats", and overdramatize/inflate the importance of relatively benign matters. There is no bigger sign of privilege than to think you (not aimed at you! Just a general you) are saving democracy or fighting evil by being a vocal democrat in a liberal middle-upper class suburbia. I guess as a minority I just don't relate with the concept that ignoring politics, or not being obsessed by it, is a form of privilege when the absolute opposite is more the norm.
  - GuB-42 4y ago
    I am not against political propaganda in principle, I mean, it is at the core of freedom of speech and democracy. Just please keep it out of my lifehacks. Not only it is, I believe, off topic, but it also alienates about half of the US population. We often talk about the virtues of diversity, but diversity is not just about LGBT and black people, it is also about diversity of opinion, and I think republicans (including Trump supporters) and democrats have a lot to share on the topic of lifehacks. Farmers for instance know their fair share of tricks, they also tend to be republican, and probably feel unwelcome to LifeHacker even though they would certainly be valuable contributors.
    - tomrod 4y ago
      > Farmers for instance know their fair share of tricks, they also tend to be republican, and probably feel unwelcome to LifeHacker even though they would certainly be valuable contributors The farmers and ranchers I know tend to run the full spectrum, so I'm not sure your stereotype of "common person must be GOP" holds.
jccalhoun 4y ago
To be fair, the article is "Why You Shouldn't Gloat (Even When It Feels Good)" and is using the recent news about Trump as a starting point to talk about why you shouldn't gloat.
- unsupp0rted 4y ago
  Nah you’re referring to the top article in the politics category. I’m referring to the top article in the general category: > “What Happens When You Get Indicted” > “If you happen to be a former president in a sticky spot right now, here's what you can expect.” It’s nothing to do with life hacks… just a thinly veiled excuse to write about a current hot topic that gets clicks.
  - jccalhoun 4y ago
    OK. I go to https://lifehacker.com/latest https://lifehacker.com/latest by default and the story about gloating is the latest post

GuB-42 4y ago

Yep, I was hoping to see more lifehacks and less politics, and it seemed to be the case... until now. Il the last years, it was full blown propaganda for the US democratic party and against republicans, which brought a matching audience of political activists that I think that it off topic and even toxic. Keep it about lifehacks. Why can't republicans have good lifehacks? That should be a politically neutral topic.

tomrod 4y ago
> it was full blown propaganda for the US democratic party and against republicans Really hard to blame Lifehacker, considering the damage done to legal precedent and other tomfoolery. Oh, to be sufficiently privileged to be able to ignore the macroeconomic and political trends. My grandparents taught me that politics aint about people. They learned that in the Depression. It's about existing power structures, deciding winners and losers. Demographically the GOP as a power player is living on borrowed time and doing everything it can to consolidate power and rebrand itself, in large part because its major three tents in its coalition (poverty-stricken disaffected [sometimes called eat-the-rich], business conservative, evangelical Christian) are not natural allies (as well as the latter two decreasing dramatically in both numbers and support). May the party of malcontent fail and more community-focused coalitions take the reins.
- mardifoufs 4y ago
  Funnily enough, most of the "trump obsessed" liberals are usually extremely privileged white people. I guess not having tons of actual issues and struggles in real life, and living a life of privilege makes it easy for people to look for "existential threats", and overdramatize/inflate the importance of relatively benign matters. There is no bigger sign of privilege than to think you (not aimed at you! Just a general you) are saving democracy or fighting evil by being a vocal democrat in a liberal middle-upper class suburbia. I guess as a minority I just don't relate with the concept that ignoring politics, or not being obsessed by it, is a form of privilege when the absolute opposite is more the norm.
- GuB-42 4y ago
  I am not against political propaganda in principle, I mean, it is at the core of freedom of speech and democracy. Just please keep it out of my lifehacks. Not only it is, I believe, off topic, but it also alienates about half of the US population. We often talk about the virtues of diversity, but diversity is not just about LGBT and black people, it is also about diversity of opinion, and I think republicans (including Trump supporters) and democrats have a lot to share on the topic of lifehacks. Farmers for instance know their fair share of tricks, they also tend to be republican, and probably feel unwelcome to LifeHacker even though they would certainly be valuable contributors.
  - tomrod 4y ago
    > Farmers for instance know their fair share of tricks, they also tend to be republican, and probably feel unwelcome to LifeHacker even though they would certainly be valuable contributors The farmers and ranchers I know tend to run the full spectrum, so I'm not sure your stereotype of "common person must be GOP" holds.

jccalhoun 4y ago

To be fair, the article is "Why You Shouldn't Gloat (Even When It Feels Good)" and is using the recent news about Trump as a starting point to talk about why you shouldn't gloat.

unsupp0rted 4y ago
Nah you’re referring to the top article in the politics category. I’m referring to the top article in the general category: > “What Happens When You Get Indicted” > “If you happen to be a former president in a sticky spot right now, here's what you can expect.” It’s nothing to do with life hacks… just a thinly veiled excuse to write about a current hot topic that gets clicks.
- jccalhoun 4y ago
  OK. I go to https://lifehacker.com/latest https://lifehacker.com/latest by default and the story about gloating is the latest post