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Some people don’t play on a team.
That's another team.
That's not a team!
I'll work with anyone (within reason) to build a better tomorrow.
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#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some people don’t play on a team.
Then you're probably following a losing strategy. "Team" doesn't have to mean "generic normie political party"; there are other team dynamics at play. In any case, if you haven't partitioned the political space into allies and enemies along at least a few planes, you're probably going to get taken advantage of (at the very least).
I am fine with being an individual with original opinions but I can empathize with insecure people who band together for reassurance.
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#244>The vast majority of these arrests occurred while journalists were documenting the historic, nationwide protests
So I'm guessing that most of these are various civil unrest (curfew violations, trespassing, etc) type arrests?
I would assume these are situations where they're minor charges / charges dropped type of situations?
Not to justify whatever given arrest(s) happened, but that seems different than say an arrest intended to prevent a story being told, shutdown a newspaper, or etc.
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tech people aren't immune to the hyper divisiveness taking place around the world. Once "your team" decides it no longer wants to respect freedom of the press or election results then you must follow suit. Gotta make sure your team wins, right?
Some people don’t play on a team.
Some people like to think they don't belong to a team. They're usually part of the enlightened centerist both sides are bad team.
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#246If you’ve been to some of these events, you’ll notice a large number of antifa people with handmade press passes calling themselves journalists, but also protesting peacefully by throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at cops, Burning buildings, preventing others from using their own cameras, hitting people, and breaking things. Those people are included in this count.
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HN is pretty conservative on average.
It's mostly technology workers, who tend to be largely liberal. Are you sure it's conservative?
In the past I would have associated HN mostly with libertarians and socdems, but it seems to have shifted more conservative than I recall.
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#248Are there more "journalists" ? I.e., people who post on the internet or have blogs?
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#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
HN is pretty conservative on average.
It's mostly technology workers, who tend to be largely liberal. Are you sure it's conservative?
The cliche about engineers being STEMlords is not entirely untrue. There is certainly a thing where engineers like to think of themselves as smart, intelligent self-made men who justifiably earned their high salaries in contrast to, say, some dumb humanities major who's now making coffees.
Often it's a libertarian flavor, particularly here in the startup community where the cliche of the self-made-person looms large. Libertarians have some overlap with liberal positions in some areas (personal freedoms in general, drugs specifically) but disagreements in others (government regulation and spending, etc).
In practice though most libertarians today can generally be characterized as conservatives who want freedom in the areas that affect them personally. They want to smoke weed, or get gay married, so those things are good, but they're conservative in most other areas.
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#250I'll dare to ask this, but what defines a "journalist" in the data points here? The Clark Kent types are the only ones I really understand that can live under that title - but with the advent of syndication and micro-journalism (to use a term I just made up) for regional markets that have no real local presence of classic journalism, interested to know what it means now. Here in Buffalo, could go many directions.
Living near Portland I would say that anyone that puts "PRESS" on their shirt with tape defines themselves as a journalist...or even just someone holding a phone or camera. Same as those medics with a red cross out of tape. There have also been many examples of those 2 groups of people engaging in the violence that seem to think of themselves as immune to police orders because of it. Unfortunately the videos and pict…
I’ve personally seen this repeatedly, and people have their heads so far in the ideological sand that they downvote you for some reason. It’s true, “independent journalists” wearing PRESS are basically an in-joke in the PNW. If there is one thing they are great at, it’s propaganda. They somehow managed to convince the rest of the country that they’re the good guys and the good guys are violent racists. Nothing could be further from the truth.