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I didn't come to Hacker News to read rants urging people to vote Romney or Obama. Here's what you're doing: You're reading something and drawing connections to
by raganwald 14y ago
I didn't come to Hacker News to read rants urging people to vote Romney or Obama.
Here's what you're doing: You're reading something and drawing connections to beliefs you already hold. Fine, we all have biases. But in this case, you're acting on them to do some political stumping. Politics is a subject best avoided on HN, it's explicitly mentioned in the guidelines for a reason. If you MUST make a political comment, it should be something that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
For example, if you were an Obama supporter until you read this article, your conversion process would be interesting. Urging others to vote Romney would still be a no-no, but the rest of your rant would be interesting.
As it is, I have this fear that anything remotely connected to economics, jobs, unions, or corruption will trigger you to post a variation of the exact same rant, which will trigger pretty-much the exact same debate, and HN will circle the drain a little faster.
- robomartin 14y agoHow do you know that a duck is a duck? You have to have seen one at some point in your life. Live in a country like Argentina for a few years. See, hear and feel how a country is destroyed, financially, culturally and morally raped by populist rulers. Then go live somewhere else and watch, in total disbelief, that same movie replayed for you in slow motion. Then, and only then, will you be able to recognize the duck. From the vantage point of the US, and without that external perspective it is easy to discount someone drawing a parallel between the events in Argentina and the US as a total lunatic. And that is your prerogative. Ask anyone living in Argentina if what is happening to them happened as a single large change or a series of small changes down the proverbial slippery slope. I know the answer to that question. Regardless of what Paypal says publicly, I assure you that what they did was the result of someone in government threatening to shove a boot up someone's ass. What, you don't think politicians can do stuff like that? Perhaps you also believe that voting can't be rigged or altered at will by politicians: http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=ST-eE4Ud7nw&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DST-eE4Ud7nw http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=ST-eE4Ud7nw&desktop_uri=%... If you are a tech entrepreneur, like it or not, politics can and does affect your life. From patent laws to taxes and beyond. It is important to at least have some perspective beyond that provided by the one-sided media so set on indoctrinating American voters (on both sides).
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