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Re: Ask HN: Is HN Pro-Fascist?

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Post by gsf_emergency_2 » Sat, Jul 19, 2025, 11:05 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #78

recursivecaveat wrote: post #58

Is HN is the institution? As a recruitment board for YC, of course it is. Are there openly fascist posters in most relevant threads? Definitely. Would I describe the average community member as such? No.

Extremely silly to describe YC as "pro-fascist". It's like claiming State Farm is "pro-fascist".

Our proto-edger on high had a more serious one: Corporatist.

His specific usage has the center-left covered! Too bad it didn't stick

(Strictly speaking, that'd be "neo-corp", like "neo-lib", but with more of a Futurist flavor. You could even say cyberpunk :)

https://davidgraeber.org/videos/donald-trump-is-a-classic-co...

https://youtu.be/yCQDq1oG0vA

Re: Ask HN: Is HN Pro-Fascist?

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Post by mcphage » Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 12:17 AM UTC

kcplate wrote: post #90

mcphage wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well then, keep on fighting the good fight, and hopefully you won’t end up in the gulag.

I’ll just continue to “not break any laws” since that has kept me out of the gulag so far.

Breanna Taylor tried that, too.

Re: Ask HN: Is HN Pro-Fascist?

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Post by kcplate » Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 1:13 AM UTC

mcphage wrote: post #92

kcplate wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ll just continue to “not break any laws” since that has kept me out of the gulag so far.

Breanna Taylor tried that, too.

Not sure what that has to do with me, gulags, fascism, or the current administration.

Re: Ask HN: Is HN Pro-Fascist?

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Post by cholantesh » Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 2:50 AM UTC

msgodel wrote: post #83

cholantesh wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it's fascist in the sense of nativism and public-private collaboration that was normative in fascist states. Most Americans are ambivalent to communism.

You can't not be nativist to some degree. Otherwise all you have is an economic zone, not a country. That's a completely ridiculous definition of fascism and again, if you pick that most Americans would be fascist and consider it a good thing.

Most Americans, who are working class, want the state to collaborate with their employers against their interests? Quite a bold assertion.