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Read straight from him, not corporate or state media middlemen. https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn

HN is more about obedience to investors than disobedience. This place is all about corporations, money and warmed-over "tech". It's telling many here are afraid (or unable) to name…

I agree. The only thing I'd change is can't -> won't. We won't do it, we refuse to.

For one thing, the ad department threatened: "We are also talking to the NRA about running ads within the story."

Yes, the costs result in obvious discrimination against the poor and working class.

The true enemy of a government is its population. The true enemy of university administrators is the students and faculty. The threat from within.

Why would you hear about it? Do all of them share each email with you, which you read daily and investigate? Do you confidentially interview their employees? Would they brag about …

A common privatization tactic is to defund public services so they're indeed incompetent. Then point at their incompetence as reason for privatization.

When people lived in slave or feudal societies, would it have been defeatist to identify them as dystopian? Weren't there people (what we call "activists") doing something about it…

I believe them when they say it! Something makes people refuse to look through Galileo's telescope. (Spent his life under house arrest.) Pushed Turing to suicide for homosexuality.…

Yes, or they legalize it (so you pay fees for expedited passports, people get frequently fined, when corporations commit fraud they give just a cut to the government as a "fine", e…

> We are respected slaves who are in high demand. Couldn't put it better myself. Universal Basic Income, with generous policies like universal healthcare and housing, is a major st…

> This is a small preview of understanding how our emotions and brain chemistry affects our performance. Interesting, what other sources can one look at, to go beyond this small pr…

Here's one where he discusses education... training for stupidity and conformity, the contradictory need for creative independent innovators, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p…

People will find things to do, because we are human. But pointless work that goes nowhere is demotivating. http://evonomics.com/why-capitalism-creates-pointless-jobs-d... The quest…

"an extreme individualism has stepped in as the alternative—a go-it-alone perspective narrowly focused on getting an education and becoming successful on one’s own merit." It's iro…

"your firm has bought your time for that hour." Tech workers have unusual amounts of wageslave mentality.

> But even here on HN, with the high quality of debate Maybe the debate here on other topics, from technical to political, is also of low quality? Just with the flavor of "quality"…

I like to say hyperindividualism, not individualism. Individualism and collectivism are naturally related: cooperation can bring out our individual potentials. From David Graeber's…

> What Hacker News is: a place for stories that gratify intellectual curiosity and civil, substantive comments. It's "startup news": computing for capitalism. We work on social med…

Fortunately, capitalism is a fairly young system & requires a government to provide violence (police & military) to preserve it. Capitalists often ask government to step in and mak…

The left talks about the Israel lobby. Certainly would not talk about a "Jewish lobby." http://www.counterpunch.org/2006/05/01/the-israel-lobby/ Far more important than some "Jewis…

> Ah yes of course - racism can only be carried out by white men after all. No one said that. Just that racism is an oppression where whites are the top caste. Blacks can be racist…

Evidence that HN is a right-wing capitalist site (like both US political parties): in a discussion of threats to humanity, an apparently highly-rated comment talks about paying too…