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by afavour 9mo ago
This is peak “both sides”. Just today Trump said he thinks there shouldn’t be any midterms. No Democrat is saying anything remotely like that.
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by afavour 9mo ago
> The size of the problem basically leaves no "nice" solutions that are perfectly palatable to everyone. Why not? What is it about the presence of illegal immigrants in a place that makes terrorizing the entire population a goo
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by afavour 9mo ago
https://apps.apple.com/ seems a little more involved than a demo app to me
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by afavour 9mo ago
I don’t think data supports this. Polling has shown a lot of people who voted Republican in 2024 (Latinos especially) have snapped back again already, at least partially because of what ICE is doing. ICE are terrorizing a city and its res
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by afavour 9mo ago
The deep irony in your comment is that every view you’ve expressed is itself informed by the propaganda you have been viewing. ICE are detaining American citizens. It’s been documented countless, countless times. The killings they have comm
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by afavour 9mo ago
A broad answer: because America is more violent. The ICE officers are armed and absolutely will use their weapons if given half a chance to. Maybe I’m wrong but I don’t think any rioters in countries like Spain go to a protest with a bet re
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by afavour 9mo ago
The sheer number of em dashes in the text suggest to me that the reporter didn't write anything, ChatGPT did.
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by afavour 9mo ago
> They paid a bunch of people that are now dead No, they didn’t: https://apnews.com/article/social-security-payments-deceased... You desperately need to diversify your media diet.
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by afavour 9mo ago
A lot of Silicon Valley’s success is attributable to immigrants. Be careful what you wish for.
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by afavour 9mo ago
> get ~everything provided as long as you pop out enough kids or meet the right benefits criteria You’ve been huffing way too much right wing propaganda. “Welfare queens” have been a boogeyman for decades.
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by afavour 9mo ago
I think you're getting downvotes because, particularly in the AI era, this is very easy to look up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924
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by afavour 9mo ago
I'm assuming it's referring to not using terms like "slave" or "master", etc etc. There isn't quite the same parallel when talking about a hammer.
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by afavour 9mo ago
I'm surprised that you signed up for an account just to say something this empty
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by afavour 9mo ago
> I think to assume that humans are these monolithic, logically consistent entities is to badly misunderstand humanity. I don't think anyone is doing that though. But to decide whether to give someone's business money you do ha
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by afavour 9mo ago
This is a very low effort reply. Does doing one good thing erase all the bad things a person has done? If that's the argument you're making, make it.
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by afavour 9mo ago
I understand the instinct to remove "politics" from HN but it's fuzzier than that. There were great HN-related conversations to be had around DOGE and what it was (purportedly) trying to achieve with automation, AI, replacing
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by afavour 9mo ago
> With state-run media you tend to get lots of propaganda and little actual news I think the BBC are a good counter to that argument. No, they’re not flawless but over the decades they’ve delivered plenty of journalism that’s held govern
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by afavour 9mo ago
> Want to get a higher budget next year? You better run some stories on the great work that the current government is doing or else... This is why you fund public media sensibly, outside the control of any given administration. It is pos
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by afavour 9mo ago
I’m sorry but this is a completely empty comment. If you have a specific rebuttal please say it rather than patronize.
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by afavour 9mo ago
The reaction to Adams death is simply a reflection of how he lived his life. There’s this curious demand (often though not exclusively from right leaning folks) for freedom of speech and freedom from consequences of that speech. It doesn’
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by afavour 9mo ago
Adams was the one who refused to put his politics aside, this thread is simply a reflection of that.
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by afavour 10mo ago
> In a 2006 blog post, Adams asked if official figures of the number of deaths in the Holocaust were based on methodologically sound research. In 2023, Adams suggested the 2017 Unite the Right rally was "an American intel op against
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by afavour 10mo ago
It’s not flawless but public funding for journalism is about the only answer here, I think. In the UK the BBC offers newscasts for different regions of the country… while they don’t exactly do a ton of hard hitting journalism they could i
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by afavour 10mo ago
He’s a “sewer socialist”, his most radical pitch is… making buses free. It’s easy to get outraged by labels but when you strip them away and look at the actual politics it’s all pretty middling. Which is a large part of why he won.
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by afavour 10mo ago
Sure, but why argue the abstract when we have Andreessen’s views and actions on record?
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by afavour 10mo ago
It’s only “everywhere” on social media feeds that prioritize content that outrages you.
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by afavour 10mo ago
I think the test beyond that is how willing the next government will be to codify meaningful changes into law. After Trump’s first time it’s as if there was a big sigh of relief and a notion of “well, we just won’t do that again”. It’s very
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by afavour 10mo ago
I really wish that were true but they won’t. They’ll just keep on keeping on.
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by afavour 10mo ago
They literally have an entire web site dedicated to this that explains the reasons for the cost increase: https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/building-project-faqs.ht... Could it have been cheaper? Possibly. But let’s
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by afavour 10mo ago
The incredible thing (to me) is that this isn’t even remotely a new thing: it’s reviewing pull requests vs writing your own code. We all know how different that feels!

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