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Comment by msie | Hacker News Reader

So sad, all the money in the world and somehow he believes he's a victim.

What’s truly sad isn’t that he feels victimized - it’s that he’s using his wealth and influence to settle personal scores. That’s not leadership; it’s grievance-fueled ego. It’s moral immaturity dressed in power.

i find that reactionaries of all kinds put a lot of work into the mental gymanastics required to argue that somehow they are the real victims of injustice and it usually boils down to "people wont let me do whatever i want and also love me"

As a thought experiment to check your own biases, how do you feel about people like Colin Kaepernick speaking out about police abuses and racism in the justice system?

There are people who made roughly the same argument you're making here- since this individual became rich and famous within the current system, they shouldn't criticize the flaws in the system that have victimized others who they empathize with.

by trying to make this comparison, you mask the other huge, important difference between these examples: speaking out against police abuse and racism in the justice system is a just and moral act, and the things andreeson says are very bad and very stupid. the nerd-sniping semantic argument is so boring.

They are not the same argument. Andreesen made his wealth because of the intended effects of the system, and rather than merely looking to reform it he's looking to wholesale tear it down as it is now holding him back from getting even more wealth. Kaepernick did not make his wealth from the failings of the justice system, and that system isn't really standing in his way today.

Furthermore, reform and wholesale destruction are very different things and anybody still supporting Trump on some notion that any of this is actually about fixing DEI/immigration/budget/regulation needs to get their head screwed on straight, and quick.

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