[mullingitover]

Hacker News might try to ignore politics, but politics isn't ignoring tech.

You have impending tariffs on chips on the way to wreck tech businesses, and incoming xenophobic immigration policies coming to kick out the talent pipeline.

But sure, let's flag any posts that might hint at everything not being totally awesome. Did you hear that some build tool got open sourced?

[tpmoney]

>Hacker News might try to ignore politics, but politics isn't ignoring tech.

Great! Maybe folks could discuss that in any of the hundreds of other social forums all over the internet? One of the absolute worst things to have happened as traditional forums and such have gone away and been replaced with "feeds" and "feeding trough" front pages is that every single place seems to eventually devolve into a death spiral of US Team Sports Politics. Does anyone really believe that the relative dearth of political discussion on HN is actually preventing anyone interested in that discussion from finding it? Or keeping anyone interested in being informed on the relevant issues from being so informed? Maybe it's possible to have places in your life where you talk to other people and don't have to talk about politics.

[nicce]

> Great! Maybe folks could discuss that in any of the hundreds of other social forums all over the internet?

Real discussion on there is not possible. This place seems to be more civilized.

[ThrowawayR2]

Civilized? It won't be for long if people drag political topics in here.

[freitasm]

I think the interesting is the tech community that used to be liberal and loving turning to something completely the opposite. Blindly following some playbook by "luminaires", and adopting the most awful parts of the discourse.

I know I am now going to be voted down, but it's the truth.

[mullingitover]

The tech community at large is very well in line with democracy and progressive values. There's a small cult who got very rich and became insanely hubristic, and they and their fans are a very rotten extremity of an otherwise very healthy and positive community.

There's no 'used to be,' the tech scene is not down with authoritarians today and never will be.

[panarky]

Pretending to ignore politics is the most political act of all.

[xor-eax-eax]

That's the rub. It would've been a non-issue in the late 90's when extremists weren't in power and there was just moderate levels of corruption rather than gold bar senators or Department of Fox News Defense. It's imperative to call-out absurdity where it interferes with the continuation of organized multicellular life rather than be silent, because silence gives consent (Qui tacet consentit).