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by EA-3167 71 days ago
Unsurprisingly when people here engage in serious politics beyond a desire to enrich themselves, those politics tend to take on a distinctly libertarian bent. I’m not sure what else people expect though, this is a very sheltered group with relatively limited skills outside of specific technical areas.

To put it another way this forum skews selfish.

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I miss the days when hackerdom reliably skewed selfish instead of fascist.
Those ideas tend to go hand in hand.
So I am slowly learning!
I miss the days when such people lacked the power to turn their half-baked fantasies into a broken reality for the rest of us. Alas.