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Why has hacker news turned into politics central :(
by daft_pink 2y ago
Why has hacker news turned into politics central :(
- jefurii 2y agoYou could've just skipped over this page, but you're here commenting. Just sayin'
- daft_pink 2y agoit's cause my rss reader has like 10 articles about trump today from hn.... most of them flagged though.
- sanderjd 2y agoBecause of the inauguration a couple weeks ago. That's how it goes. Don't worry, it will settle down. And also: There are an unusually larger number of actual HN angles going on in this particular new administration. This article is clearly relevant to this forum, and so is the recent Wired article about the DOGE employees.
- Fraterkes 2y agoBecause it is part of the world
- saagarjha 2y agoBecause software engineers are being asked to perform political decisions.
- notfed 2y agoYeah this is really not the right article to complain about such a thing lol
- pc86 2y agoSoftware engineers who work for the federal government are being told (not asked) to follow a lawful executive order from a democratically elected President. They don't really have a choice in the matter.
- miltonlost 2y ago"I was just following orders" is not an excuse to most moral people who learn from history. Soldiers cannot commit war crimes because their superior offices tell them to. Federal workers swear an oath on the Constitution to defend it from enemies both foreign and domestic.
- lenkite 2y agoNobody had a problem following orders in the last administration to fire container-ship loads of people.
- miltonlost 2y agowhatabout whatabout whatabout
- leovingi 2y agoBeing told to remove DEI wording is not comparable to a war crime, please engage in a serious discussion and leave the hysteria at the door.
- pc86 2y agoYou skipped right over the "lawful executive order" and "democratically elected" parts of my point pretty conveniently, there. "I was following orders" is not a justification for committing crimes, but "I don't want to" is not a justification for not following lawful orders. If you have actual reason to believe removing "DEI" from a drop down list on a website is not a lawful order, I would love to hear it. But you don't, which is why you're talking about soldiers and war crimes and trying to frame this as "an enemy...domestic" and not talking about what it is - changing text on websites.
- afpx 2y agoShould have been here 4, 8, 12, and 16 years ago.
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- latexr 2y agoBecause tech bros and companies keep shoving themselves into politics. You’re complaining at the wrong end.