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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.
Or quit and return when it's not a hostile environment. No one has to eat his shit. They can leave and come back when they have a genuine opportunity to have an impact. Is that impossible in your view?
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every day a dozen critical of Musk/DOGE discussions land on HN main, and zero non-critical/positive ones it is an illusion of being surrounded by brigades of conservatives censoring you, if anything - the opposite is true when I tried submitting a positive take on recent happenings in DC - my own post was flagged withing 5 minutes, and I was chastised for posting a link to nazi platform (it was a link to X longpost)
It is a nazi platform, in that it's owned and controlled by a nazi.
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> I don’t need to vote for the lesser of two evils One of them is promising that you won't be able to vote again. And are you doing anything to fight foor the changes needed to dismantle the two party system?
I often vote for and support 3rd party candidates and their parties. Do you? Or are you content to just let your party just run shitty candidates every election cycle? Also, I am not a Trump voter and have never been, but can y’all please stop taking snippets and quotes of his out of context? It’s so fucking tiring and intellectually dishonest and is one of the reasons he won this election. If you don’t know that you…
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If an incident of mobbing occurs in a Norwegian school the bystanders are held to account as well as the actual perpetrators.
This is not even remotely equivalent. Making not intervening when a crime takes place means there is a crime taking place . In the US elections are not a crime and “not voting” is not a crime.
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In the name of “cutting costs”, they can do anything? Divert funds to whatever they want? Explain how taking down open scientific and health data sets is “improving efficiency and transparency”. I kind of liked data.gov as a step in the RIGHT direction for government transparency! Elon never mentions those things, of course. He has a direct connection to the people, bigger than FDR’s radio which helped him bypass the…
What does this mean? It was unprovoked in the conventional sense, all the way back from 2014; the bogus justification of protecting Russian speakers was the same as the bogus justification for the Turkish invasion of Northern Cyprus. And the escalation by Russia in attempting to invade Kyiv was completely unjustified. It's the classic case of an agressive war the UN was supposed to be against.
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There are several character qualities more important than immediate personal comfort.
Affording to feed your family and put a stable roof over their heads is a bit more than “immediate personal comfort”.