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It isn't true at all that 0 GOP people read Hacker News. A lot of people here have a strong interest in reduced taxes, deregulation, and privatization (included
by pekk 14y ago
It isn't true at all that 0 GOP people read Hacker News. A lot of people here have a strong interest in reduced taxes, deregulation, and privatization (included in 'small government').
- cbs 14y agoA lot of people here have a strong interest in reduced taxes, deregulation, and privatization (included in 'small government'). This is what I hate about political messaging. All of those vague terms are nice and all, but the different ways to implement/achieve them are all over the political spectrum. That is not a refutation of the idea 0 repubs are on HN. I know they're here, but you're merely saying some people on HN happen to agree with some of the vaguest of vague messaging ideals also used by the R's.
- tptacek 14y agoThere are multiple people who self-identify as Republicans on HN (contrary to popular belief I am not one of them), but few of them are crazy enough to say so because the spirit of the grandparent comment is correct: HN is very hostile to Republicanism.
- pekk 14y agoThere is nothing ambiguous about wanting low taxes, or deregulation, or privatization.
- cbs 14y agoEveryone can say they want that, within a very large subset of the political spectrum. There just happens to be one party within that subset that is really loud about wanting those things. They want those things, and they want it implemented in their specific ways, to benefit their specific financiers. But by no means do they have the monopoly on those laudable goals.
- jacoblyles 14y agoI'm sure there are a few GOP voters here (I very publicly endorsed Romney last election, I thought he was a super-competent guy). But there aren't very many movement types. On the other hand, there are plenty of people that pitched in on the Obama campaign here and that participate in liberal media. Ramesh Ponnuru is surprised when I tweet at him with articles that I found here. I doubt anyone that works at National Review reads Ars Technica.
- onetwothreefour 14y agoThe buzzwords you just used don't have anything to do with the GOP.
- mullingitover 14y agoI'm interested in eliminating sales and income taxes entirely. (...and making it up with increased capital gains, wealth transfer, and real estate taxes. Tax the money that people didn't work for.)
- flyinRyan 14y agoYou couldn't get further from the republican platform.