Geez, it's almost like Russia handed them a priority checklist of organizations that needed to go toothless as soon as possible. CIA influence in Europe, aid to Ukraine, nuclear strike capability...
Trump and Musk have a penchant for Alpha men - Putin and Xi. Have you ever heard them talk against any of them? There was minor criticism of Xi from T during COVID-19 though, but that's it. Whatever they are doing is very strategic! First they wiped off all the credibility of the media and during that process - bought conservative political YouTuber commentators to get the Stag votes. Now, pick any YouTube video about Trump or republicans, it almost has all the positive comments about them; Meta has mixed though now, before swearing-in, it was all positive though there as well.
They could have taken a methodical approach to federal purge, not sure what's the rush. Whatever they are doing, it has all the ingredients to start a civil war. It's not going to end well.
I'm not American so the discussions were always interesting to read for me - but this time around, every thread I click on is dead by the time I see it. Never been like that since I've started frequenting HN in 2012
I've noticed on a local US subreddit any political action or protest is immediately swarmed by people criticizing it or calling it useless. The comments might end up down voted but the level of engagement far exceeds a typical thread.
Then looking through their comment history they're doing it across many other city subreddit. No trend of them being an active participant in any one location.
Either way, it’s against the rules. Discuss politics on Reddit they say, not here
And I’ve been a member for a pretty long time now.
Silicon Valley sprung up from the military industrial complex.
One of Tesla’s main driving forces was to ease the burden of the common man.
The military-industrial complex is well supported by both parties (sadly) so not really a “political issue” in today’s sense.
It's a gradient, where everyone has an individually-set line, I won't disagree with you there. Some things cross a majority of people's line though, and other topics do not
I didn’t flag I’m just addressing the comments
You cannot "point out" an internal motivation anyway, you can only claim it. At this point, the question "why should I believe you?" seems an appropriate response, since not a single one of them I've seen could explain why why they don't click "hide" instead of "flag". Or allow people to opt-in to a view that ignores flags. Can you?
And hey, there's a link in the footer of every page to something that mentions Musk of a group of "the world’s top AI experts", to garner interest in a "100% free conference and every attendee is hand-picked." But that has nothing to do with anything, either.
I'd say some people bank on fascism winning but also don't want to be seen in case fascism doesn't win. Trapped between two kinds cowardice. Simple as that.
I already did, they also got nothing ^^
while he think he can get away with twitter and some left over engineer manage to keep SLA in check
but for an entire federal employee in 1 country???? too much complexity for that