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diggan wrote: post #30

> DOGE is also working with a FEMA IT Specialist and a grant director, according to Drop Site’s reporting. “Everyone is complying. Everyone is afraid to lose their jobs,” sources within FEMA told Drop Site. They describe the situation as FEMA employees following a “chain of command and that leads to DOGE even though they’re not part of it.” This is how a democracy slowly falls into fascism. Not because it's a overnig…

It's difficult to resist when it means likely losing your job and not being about to afford rent or your mortgage.

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Post by diggan »

janice1999 wrote: post #251
diggan wrote: post #30

> DOGE is also working with a FEMA IT Specialist and a grant director, according to Drop Site’s reporting. “Everyone is complying. Everyone is afraid to lose their jobs,” sources within FEMA told Drop Site. They describe the situation as FEMA employees following a “chain of command and that leads to DOGE even though they’re not part of it.” This is how a democracy slowly falls into fascism. Not because it's a overnig…

It's difficult to resist when it means likely losing your job and not being about to afford rent or your mortgage.

You're right, it is really difficult and can come with severe consequences. These situations are when our values are truly put to the test.

These moments test us, but they also define us.

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Post by intended »

sundaeofshock wrote: post #204

Oh look this has already been flagged. I think it’s important to recognize that HN is most likely supportive of the Trump/Musk regime. Remember that Gary Tan wanted to run the same playbook in the city of San Francisco. Please keep this in mind when posting here. Finally, depending on where we end up, I wonder how history will remember HN.

This shoud 100% not be flagged. IF people are asking for reasonable analyses, this is it.

As for HN, I've seen time based voting patterns that affect the upvote score. Still shouldn't be flagged. No matter how tired people are of politics, this is still critical.

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Post by intended »

lupusreal wrote: post #214
insane_dreamer wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There have been cases before where both the Executive and Legislative branches have been held by the same party. What's different now is that Trump is trying to consolidate much more power in the Executive branch (an explicit Project2025 goal), and Congress is powerless because the GOP are all afraid of highly vociferous MAGA reprisals (I mean, he did pardon all those who violently stormed the capitol and threatened…

> Congress is powerless because the GOP are all afraid of highly vociferous MAGA reprisals They're afraid of their voters, as they should be, as Trump is more popular with their voters than any of them are. All Trump/Musk need to do is endorse an opponent in their primaries.

Dont forget that this is by design. The decision to only vote along partisan lines and punish bipartisan efforts creates this force.

Behind this, is the desire to win elections at all costs/.

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Post by intended »

kcplate wrote: post #223
ryandrake wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An eligible voter who doesn't vote is effectively a vote for the winner, so a majority was at least complicit.

“Complicit” is an interesting word choice here—as if a non-voter is somehow responsible for wrongdoing? What “wrong” was done here? Trump won because he was democratically elected by every measure we have, both popular vote and electoral college. If your candidate lost it’s because they didn’t earn the votes, have the message, or created the reason for that non-voter to vote for them. The candidate and campaign are m…

Thats a poor reading of the effort the Republicans have put into ensuring they win.

Firstly, its not because of reasons that people win in America, not anymore. People didnt know that the ACA was Obamacare, or that Biden dropped out.

Fox and the GOP created an orwellian political power that has parasitized democratic processess.

Classic example would be climate change, in the 90s, when FOX was created.

Fox platformed cranks, and made them look legitimate. Republican lawmakers pointed to Fox news reports, and stalled if not killed climate change legislation.

The governing principle at that time, was to not provide credibility to cranks. However, shocked by the effectiveness of Fox, scientists decided to talk directly to viewers on Fox.

This resulted in them being fed to the media lions, because the goal of Fox was to discredit them, along with the ivory tower education systems.

Through this process, FOX and the GOP own the overton window for climate discussions. THEY decide what positions Dems must take.

Repeat this proces year after year, and eventually there is no place you can hold a position to win at a national level.

For state level elections this is different, apparently local knowledge overcomes this distorition field.

However, thats not the only trick.

Republicans are beholden to never grant Democrats any credibility. See Romneycare and Obamacare. It shocked me even then, that Repubs actually credited Obama for getting Osama.

This election, people remember Harris as being the Trans supporter. The Campaign itself never focused on this topic.

The Repubs sets the stage on which everyone dances.

Yes - the other candidate should earn peoples votes. They should create the right message.

Yes - as a voter, you should know when its not a fair fight.

Simply so that you can apply the right handicap when viewing candiates.

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lupusreal wrote: post #213
PaulRobinson wrote: post #29

I say this as a UKian with a constitutional monarch as head of state: These actions suggest that today the United States seems to have a de facto King with far greater powers than even those held by George III at the time the founders decided that America did not need a King. They might not be called that, but they have the ability to exert behaviours akin to an English monarch not seen much since Henry VIII. Arguabl…

Elected officials trying to do what they told voters they would do is literally the textbook definition of monarchy.

Heh. I suppose thats true if the candidate said they would be a Monarch.

Different thing if they uphold the checks and bakances.

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SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #106
no_wizard wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to mention financial. Its all but inevitable this will have expensive financial fallout, likely for individuals and the government.

I am absolutely gobsmacked that the markets simply don't care about any of this.

Wait till March.

Right now this is basically the dead body in motion.

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ceejayoz wrote: post #184
lesuorac wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is a candidate that didn't win a primary _narrowly_ losing to a candidate that won a primary a big deal? Like if Democrats decided to run Ron DeSantis how huge do you think Trump's lead would've been?

If you're a marathon runner, and you lose to another marathon runner, that's OK. If you're a marathon runner, and you lose to a toddler, that's probably not. The Dems fought an eminently beatable candidate and lost, and they continue to struggle with messaging now (stop putting Schumer up there to deliver it!). They flubbed the response to Dobbs, the consultant class nixed the Harris campaign parts that were working…

How you frame a problem, determines what solution you are going to find.

I went over many assumptions after the elections, to understand what I had missed. But things changed when I asked a different question.

Its not a question of how Harris lost. Its a question of how Trump ran in the first place.

With that change, things clicked into place.

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Post by ryandrake »

AlecSchueler wrote: post #239
dragonwriter wrote: post #235

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are a very large number of discussion venues online that do not tend to penalize controversial political issues. Many of them have strong political biases (but, then again, so does HN.)

I'm aware that there are other discussion forums but the demographic here has a very specific technical knowledge which is hugely relevant to current events. I want to see these things discussed by people with that knowledge. Other forums have different userbases. That's why it's distressing to see YCombinator take such a clear side in this, or at least not seem to care about the clear abuse of the flagging system.

I agree. If the articles were "Major government IT system crashes and loses data" or "NASA victim of cyber-attack" or "United States Digital Service product roadmap," then the articles would be on-topic and unflagged. But, as soon as the words Elon or DOGE enter the picture, they're insta-flagged. Yes, these topics tend to get heated but that doesn't make them off-topic or irrelevant to a tech news site, or justify user flagging.

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Post by regularjack »

throw_pm23 wrote: post #56
croes wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Compared to the US the EU falls much slower

You must be kidding, the last decade is about Europe totally shooting themselves in the foot and giving up leadership in almost every field. US and China have been the big winners here.

If TFA is an example of the US being a "big winner" then I'm happy to be on the losing side.
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