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On days like these the US is Guantanamo Bay. The US is poverty and regular people without a home. The US is bad health care, as in only the rich can afford it.
by hmottestad 14y ago
On days like these the US is Guantanamo Bay. The US is poverty and regular people without a home. The US is bad health care, as in only the rich can afford it. The US is drones, fired at civilians in the dead of night. The US is oil, as in that they want it all. The US is guns, like the ones likely to be pointed at you if you get robbed. The US is x-rays at the airport.
And finally, the US is the land of the free.
- facorreia 14y agoThis is not the kind of content I come to Hacker News for.
- serf 14y agothe article, or the opinion espoused by the commenter you replied to? In other words, you come to HN for one aspect of the Political world , and not all of them? Myself, I don't come to HN for ANYTHING in this thread. It's all interesting, in it's own right, but has little to do with 'hacking'. But, then again, civil liberties are a set of issues that can broadly affect us all.. maybe that was the grand position of whoever thought this was HN worthy. I don't know. Maybe it's beyond us all, and the OP has some insight as to how the whole GITMO situation can be solved with functional programming and 'high-availability clustering solutions', and he's just trying to nudge us into finding the solution. One can be hopeful.
- davidw 14y ago> But, then again, civil liberties are a set of issues that can broadly affect us all If HN's front page were open to anything and everything, and links were voted for based on their importance in the real world, the actual Hacker News content would be completely buried. The real world is far more important than most of what's on Hacker News, so paradoxically, if we want to maintain the quality and focus of HN, real world articles like this need to be excluded, even if we all agree they are very important.
- delinka 14y agoThe entire process of "approving" articles is democratic. The community of users decides what is interesting enough to appear on the front page. If you personally disagree that a particular article should be on the front page, well ... your only recourse is to flag it. If a democratic site is not what you want, then you don't want HN.
- davidw 14y agoActually, there are moderators who can and do kill stories, more or less according to the guidelines ( http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ). If a completely democratic site is what you want, you want reddit.
- facorreia 14y agoI meant political content. Thank you for your reply.
- ezequiel-garzon 14y agoWhat people find puzzling is that you didn't criticize the submission of the (political) article to HN in a new comment, or even in a reply to the top comment, but rather a in reply to a very specific viewpoint.
- calinet6 14y agoUnfortunately, you won't always find content you're looking for. It's just statistics. The article is political in nature and the comments are likely to be as well; if it's not what you're looking for, you may safely ignore it and rest assured that it's a statistical anomaly that won't undermine the entire community.
- tomp 14y agoI didn't downvote you because I didn't agree with you (even though I don't), but because your comment is underspecified, un-argumented, and thus without any value.
- eyko 14y agoI read his comment as simple sarcasm.
- alan_cx 14y agoYou just have.
- tpainton 14y agoThe US is the computer and internet that complete you.
- rapind 14y agoIs there no way you could have a computer and internet and yet still respect human rights? Or is it really all or nothing?
- mseebach 14y agoYes, you're right. The US is not perfect, which makes it exactly like a prison full of extraordinarily rendered un-tried suspects.