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HN is the wrong forum for this.
by bavell 9mo ago
HN is the wrong forum for this.
- hobs 9mo agoThe idea that hackers are non political is very silly and very unbacked up by evidence.
- buellerbueller 9mo agoThis is what the biggest names in the VC class want you to think as they continue to enrich themselves, while (in the USA at least) they support a regime that is growing in its authoritarian output. Thiel, Musk, et. al., support, for example, Curtis Yarvin, who believes that democracy is a failed experiment and should be replaced with an all-powerful "CEO"
- ryandrake 9mo ago> Thiel, Musk, et. al., support, for example, Curtis Yarvin, who believes that democracy is a failed experiment and should be replaced with an all-powerful "CEO" These guys all benefit when the No-Politics Purity Brigade drives by and flag-kills every article pointing out their wrongdoing as "political." By flagging this stuff, they're actually making HN more political: They are defending billionaires, their agendas, and their status-quo politics.
- fzeroracer 9mo agoSo I, as a software engineer, have to deal with the impacts of this administration both making my employment harder as well as terrorizing the city I live in. Where do you suggest I would go to share these issues other than the site that is specifically for hackers and tech workers? I get that people want to make the place 'non-political', but a lot of us in the US live in major metropolitan areas and are very directly impacted by all of the shit going on.
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- buellerbueller 9mo ago"non-political" == pro status quo
- bigstrat2003 9mo agoNo. It means "sick to death of hearing about politics everywhere I go and I am desperate for the occasional respite from that madness". Your interpretation is extremely bad faith.
- buellerbueller 9mo agoIt may not be your intent, but it has the effect of supporting the status quo.