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by jaybrendansmith 296 days ago
I think the issue is both-sides-ism here. This article is about the Fed illegally losing it's political independence, something that could trigger terrible inflation and a recession. That's quite a bit different than Biden falling off his bicycle. I would like to humbly suggest that the US slip-sliding into fascism is something hackers should be concerned about, worthy of discussion and debate. Pushing it down the memory hole seems unworthy of this site.
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jacquesm 295 days ago
> I would like to humbly suggest that the US slip-sliding into fascism is something hackers should be concerned about

Plenty of these hackers are aiding and abiding the slide. If not actively greasing the skids personally. Thiel and Musk are minor gods here.

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jaybrendansmith 286 days ago
Hate the sin, love the sinner. I have a lot of respect for Musk, but his politics are awful.
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lp0_on_fire 296 days ago
“Slip-sliding into fascism”? Please.

This is the same tired melodramatic trope that’s played out every time anyone even remotely to the right wins an election in the United States.

It should be no surprise that many people, myself included, aren’t interested in “discussion and debate” that amounts to “anyone who is disagrees with me is cartoonishly evil”.

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aredox 295 days ago
See here for some melodrama:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42615336

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42614018

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38532483

"The beam of thine eye", heh.

But you don't live in areas where masked armed people disappear people in vans while shouting "ICE", so I guess you don't notice - and as you blank out any discussion of it as "political", as long as it doesn't happen to you personally, you will keep refusing to admit anything is happening.

Anything like that list:

https://www.axios.com/2024/11/01/trumps-enemies-within-list

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jaybrendansmith 295 days ago
You can try to normalize this as much as you want, it ain't gonna normalize. Ignoring the supreme court? Ignoring habius corpus and due process? Pissing on the constitution, when you swore an oath to defend it? WTF.
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