The 60 Minutes Report That Bari Weiss Censored Is Now Internet Contraband
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Why would they flag a story on HN because of that? I just the other day was in an argument over a pro maga comment that was killed along with an interesting thread
I'm not even sure it's that much more friendly to big tech than previous gov
This one is protecting it. How much of a reversal do you need before you can tell the difference?
Did you follow the Google Antitrust case at all?
The current government is reversing literally everything like a small child out of spite. That doesn't mean HN mods are suddenly reporting to them and dancing to their pipe.
Do you take this line back, or did you simply forget you said this? Or is there some fine detail you wish to clarify here.
Because one admin literally suing for the breakup of Google, and the next admin giving the case up with no argument is about as opposite as you can get. The facts simply do not match your assertions
Should I assume that breaking up google is bad for YC? And not breaking up google is good for YC? Why? Like having Google around would increase business opportunities for YC funded startups? And therefore HN mods are grifters in bed with trump? Sorry my friend but this is simply an insane
And even if breaking up google actually hurts YC, if one admin is reversing literally everything from the other admin out of princple and this accidentally does some good for you it doesn't mean it's friendly to you.
Sometimes I can't tell here who's more crazy US righties or US lefties...
Just say that the Trump admin is friendlier to Google. Can you do that for me?
Or are you unable to even do that?
> How is that even relevant
If it's not relevant, you should be able to admit it yourself without any issue. So take the statement 'This admin is friendlier to Google than Biden admin was', and make sure your statements are logically consistent with said statement.
That's all I'm asking you to do.
for example most of what Trump claims he invested in chip production was actually invested by Biden. Trump gives more promises and less actual money.
https://itif.org/publications/2020/09/28/trump-vs-biden-comp...
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
I was originally against flagging these posts but after discussions in this thread I can see that it brings out the most insanity/flamebait/unconstructive HN people and I fully support killing these threads. No thoughtful conversation will happen
Glad people are seeing the corrupt country for what it is, though. The propaganda is finally wearing off thanks to Trump ironically. Once the world sees USA for what it is we can all move on.
Because bush invaded Iraq the current guy gets a free pass to round up immigrants with gestapo like tactics?
These posts come off as excusing current wrongs and it seems willful
We need to have a much more complex and nuanced conversation than "Orange man bad," even given that orange man is very much bad. Otherwise he won't be the last, much less the worst.
“it burned down before this is more of the same hurrrummmph.”
Democracy cannot rest or it is eroded, so yes bad things happened. American is flawed but over time has worked towards improving itself and going towards its ideals of equality. But every inch forward is hard fought against the likes of the current administration. Suffrage, voting rights, environmental regulations, abolition were all won as huge battles against those clinging to and abusing power.
The way these “but America has always been…” post are toned, if we listened to the likes of them then none of those victories would have occurred.
Listening to them, we backslide. Dwelling on past imperfections instead of fighting today’s fire? Thats Self sabotage.
These posts are never framed in a constructive way, like how do we right the wrongs of the past, how can we make reparations for them. No, they’re framed like “we’ve always been bad, so this current bad is not so bad”
They seem to be insidiously on the side of injustice, trying to diminish current ills so that they may continue.
If I were a totalitarian leader of any sort, I’d definitely be having my propagandists go after any country more liberal and try to paint them as also authoritarian and bad, and always that way.
Are you denying America has not improved itself? Slavery was horrible but slavery was ended even though it took a massive bloody war. Thats an extreme example but there are plenty.
No no, to the Debbie downers we are and always have been the equivalent of mao, Stalin, mussolini, and polpot
The latter is "normalizing", the former is attempting to get folks to understand a broader context.
This is not whataboutism. if all countries are fascist because they did something like this some time ago then the word has no useful meaning anymore.
what government does now is what matters. you are trying to shift it to the past is not helping
- "everything was great" does not imply "not fascist"
- "not everything was great" does not imply "fascist"
Good luck.