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It's not surprising when you consider HN is full of temporarily embarrassed tech billionaires
No one should be ashamed of being rich. What grates me is that these people have ginormous amounts of FU money and don’t exercise it. They just horde it and be more sociopathic.
Agreed with the cowardice. But I think it worked both ways. It was pretty clear that Facebook (and a lot of other industries) also took on a lot of practices that they clearly didn't believe in either. DEI was taken up performatively for political reasons. We cannot be upset when it is removed performatively for political reason. And we have to be honest that these programs were largely failures. Fact checking especi…
And I don't think she was being performative.
Agreed about the cringe cowardice.
It has been extremely instructive to watch the worlds richest people line up to kiss the ring of the new administration. I hope people remember this in the future when they talk about the rich controlling our government and the population being just along for the ride.
As a European observer, it's been an interesting lesson in how much power and sway the US presidency is invested with, despite ostensibly existing in a system that is less centralized and puts more power (and elected offices) at the state level than our flavor of democracies. You may not be able to bend the will of state officials, but if you can bend the will of national-level companies this easily, "the Feds" are e…
It has been extremely instructive to watch the worlds richest people line up to kiss the ring of the new administration. I hope people remember this in the future when they talk about the rich controlling our government and the population being just along for the ride.
Going forward they'll have a good deal of say in the policies they care about, by donating and attending and show of loyalty.
It has been extremely instructive to watch the worlds richest people line up to kiss the ring of the new administration. I hope people remember this in the future when they talk about the rich controlling our government and the population being just along for the ride.
But anyway, agreed.
It has been extremely instructive to watch the worlds richest people line up to kiss the ring of the new administration. I hope people remember this in the future when they talk about the rich controlling our government and the population being just along for the ride.
Trump and his sleazy tech bros will go down in history as the gravediggers of democracy.
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I came here to write this will get flagged, and I was already too late. We need a new "HackerNews"
Check out the hackernews sub on rdrama.net
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He did the exact opposite when it was trendy to do the opposite. Did his beliefs change so conveniently?
"Beliefs"? Classic binary "if you're not with us, you're against us" thinking. Believe it or not, a lot of people didn't really give a hoot about either side of the culture wars squabbling and just went with the flow.
Be better. Go against the flow.