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> no armies, can’t defend itself, can’t make energy. Look I love dumping on the Europoors as much as anyone, but even I can see that this is a bit extreme. "D
by epistasis 10mo ago
> no armies, can’t defend itself, can’t make energy.
Look I love dumping on the Europoors as much as anyone, but even I can see that this is a bit extreme. "Decadence?" What does that even mean here? That people are happy and secure and have good qualities of life, without worrying about everything falling apart?
The US is not fine, and is falling apart. The US is living decadently on its reserve currency status, which enable things like ridiculously wasteful and unproductive military spending. Even its military spending on things like the, say, F35, require external customers in order for it to make any sense at all. But all that decadence is at risk. Decadence is good, I want it, I don't want austerity. Give me this awesome US decadence or I'll have to settle for the fake European "decadence" which is mere economic and health security without all the extra spending that US consumers get to make.
- monero-xmr 10mo ago[flagged]
- epistasis 10mo ago> The goal of Europeans is not to work. What, would you say, all these entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley are doing here? They are all trying to invent something so that they don't have to work anymore. > They will continue to sell their crown jewels to the highest bidder, because no one wants to work. Is this about Europe or the US?
- monero-xmr 10mo ago[flagged]
- epistasis 9mo agoThat idea has been so destroyed by current events that I can only imagine that you are trolling or have been living in a cave for a few weeks. Check the news!
- monero-xmr 9mo ago[flagged]
- JumpCrisscross 9mo ago> idea has been so destroyed by current events To be fair, has it? The EU is talking about activating its anti-coercion thing, which would anyway only kick off a year-long consultation and voting process before anything happened. To my knowledge, there have been no consequences to America annexing Greenland put forward that would hit before the midterms.
- monero-xmr 9mo agoI feel like no one has read anything I have said but you
- tomhow 9mo agoWe've asked you before not to break the guidelines. Political/ideological flamebait is not what HN is for and destroys what it is for. You can discuss these themes in curious ways, rather than inflammatory ways; indeed, you must, if you want your comments to avoid being killed by flags. Eventually we have to ban accounts that continually flout the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- monero-xmr 9mo agoIn my circles nothing I said would be considered problematic. I’m expressing opinions that are scary
- tomhow 9mo agoHN is a community that exists for a specific purpose and that purpose is curious conversation. The guidelines are designed to keep activity aligned with that purpose, and HN is a place where people want to participate because enough people make the effort to follow the guidelines and raise the standards rather than drag them down. What is acceptable in your circles is not relevant here. What matters here is preserving HN as a good place for curious conversations.
- monero-xmr 9mo agoDuly noted that telling the truth as I see it is too scary for HN. Ban me don’t care, who gives a fuck
- tomhow 9mo agoWe don't need mini-sermons or defiant strutting. Just respect for the community and the groundrules that make this a place people care about preserving. The guidelines are simple, and have been in place and stable for nearly two decades. If we didn't uphold them, this site wouldn't exist for you to denigrate like this.