[jkkorn]

I don't know what's going on. This was supposed to be about "the idf doing humanitarian work in florida and helping with the rescue"

seconds later the scope has become "everything israel does is wrong, look at gaza, something something apartheid"

[SrslyJosh]

Sorry that reality is crashing your propaganda party, dude. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[jkkorn]

it's all good ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ cool to critisize anything and anyone. It just comes off as a very different vibe when compared to other HN discussions.

Everyone here is so smart and inquisitive, but when the issue is middle east the gang seems to take a shallow, dogmatic take on something they absolutely do not understand. For so many independent thinkers there's a lot of knee jerk group think

[krapp]

>but when the issue is middle east the gang seems to take a shallow, dogmatic take on something they absolutely do not understand. For so many independent thinkers there's a lot of knee jerk group think

And China. And American foreign policy. And anything related to or that even mentions sex, gender or race. And the media. And economics. And COVID. And RMS. This place is legendary for its aggressively ignorant and toxic hot takes on just about everything but technology[0], especially if it requires empathy, emotional reasoning or an understanding of mainstream society.

[0] With the possible exception of Javascript or the modern web in general, mention of either of which sometimes sends people into a frothing rage.

[AzzieElbab]

HN dogmas on Israel match exactly what I was taught in my soviet high-school history class 30+ years ago. Good stuff, highly entertaining nostalgia.