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Re: Get ready to flee, Americans in ten countries warned

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Post by BoxOfRain »

mannanj wrote: post #11

Wondering when did political discourse become so prevalent in hacker news? I have now become accustomed to it being normal, but I remember the hacker news of 10 years was not like this. Why has this become so normal? I miss the days where this was focused on technology and, well, hacking. Can we stop engaging this political commentary please.

The hacker community has always had a strong political element to it, what else is the GNU GPL but a statement of political intent? Anything which deals with the allocation of power and resources is political.

Re: Get ready to flee, Americans in ten countries warned

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Post by wseqyrku »

slillibri wrote: post #19
wseqyrku wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where you were for the last 47 years? Turn on the news.

Hmm, what could have happened 47 years ago. Is that when the current islamist regime overthrew the dictator that the US & UK put into place by orchestrating a coup against the democratically elected government because they wanted to nationalize the oil industry? Seriously this 47 years ago BS needs to stop.

I meant the entire time not 47 years ago sharp. You won't see what you're ignoring no matter how close it gets to you.

Re: Get ready to flee, Americans in ten countries warned

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Post by g8oz »

xdennis wrote: post #22
cjbenedikt wrote: post #2

'The Iranian regime is unpredictable, as seen by its recent decisions to attack areas in the region without warning or provocations ...hmmm...remind me again: who started this without warning of provocation?

[flagged]

Glad at least that you can understand America's aggression as being at Israel's behest. And that concerns over a nuclear weapon program were just a pretext.

Re: Get ready to flee, Americans in ten countries warned

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Post by ajb »

krapp wrote: post #16
felooboolooomba wrote: post #14

Is politics allowed now when people feel shit's hitting home.

No. If anything the more real it gets, the harder people put the hammer down on it. Makes them feel bad, see, and people don't come to HN to feel bad.

That's a likely motivation, but it's worth pointing out that it's against one of the HN community's other values: thinking things through properly, not just picking an option.

The hacker mindset values understanding how the moving parts fit together, and thinking about whether better strategies than the "received wisdom" exist. Politics is often a demand to pick a side, which is against that, but "we just don't do politically contraversial subjects here" is even more against that.

Re: Get ready to flee, Americans in ten countries warned

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Post by throw1234567891 »

xdennis wrote: post #22
cjbenedikt wrote: post #2

'The Iranian regime is unpredictable, as seen by its recent decisions to attack areas in the region without warning or provocations ...hmmm...remind me again: who started this without warning of provocation?

[flagged]

“The current round”.

Re: Get ready to flee, Americans in ten countries warned

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Post by lokar »

WolfeReader wrote: post #8
TaboZ wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

are you real?

"Thanks Obama" is sometimes used sarcastically by people who actually don't mind Obama, as a parody of how conservatives would blame literally anything on him. Too bad the above post didn't give enough context to say which sense they're using it.

If not for that tan suit gas would be $1/gal and America would own Iran.
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