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Comment by dudefeliciano | Hacker News Reader

this is prime material for HN to flag...

Is there an HN but for anarchists? Or maybe just anti-authoritarians?

There's 4chan but for leftists (leftypol) and there's reddit for leftists (lemmy or raddle). I'd also argue Mastodon is kind of twitter for leftists/hackers

Yeah but I want the tech slant as well. I guess something like Chaos Computer Club? Though I don’t know too much about them.

Besides, leftypol, the other 3 I mentioned already have a heavy bias towards techies. Plenty of tech+privacy related sub communities on raddle/lemmy and lots of tech-related mastodon instances

The Atlantic? I kid. I really mean Al-Jazeera.

There are no anti-authoritarian news outlets in Qatar, for obvious reasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Qatar

Of course, that's because Qatar actually is an authoritarian state, unlike the US. It hasn't stopped Al-Jazeera from challenging the authority of other nations or claiming that they are authoritarian. Pot, meet kettle and all that.

I think The Atlantic is actually pretty close to the mark. Committed, hardcore ideologues frequently turn out to be authoritarian, even if they refer to themselves as "anarchists". Most of these ideologues are busy administering ever more stringent purity tests to anyone they encounter lest someone in their vicinity commit wrongthink.

There is a name for people who build coalitions through compromise and diplomacy, and work towards pragmatic solutions to actual problems — they're called "centrists".

During times of great strife, centrists are also known as “enablers”. Fence sitting only works until you realize that the Overton window has shifted a field away from the fence on which you’ve been sitting.

If we can't flag it, make it disappear from the front page.

Collectively done via Israel's RiseApp and similar.

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