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Comment by jMyles | Hacker News Reader

Indeed. But when the rubber meets the road, even our community has trouble standing behind people taking direct action to disrupt ICE activities. eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48727750

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Tech in general (including HN) skews right wing. The era of the countercultural social rebel is long over. Now it's largely just people who have the bag defending the status quo and a whole bunch more people who think they'll one day be holding the bag so are defending the status quo. Tech companies are now fundamentally just defense contractors.

There are an awful lot of people who don't hate opression. They simply hate being oppressed. And those are two very different things.

This claim probably upsets a bunch of people who don't want to think of themselves as right wing. They'll point to rainbow flags in their bios at the same time they're the most NIMBY people in the Bay Area and they basically want homeless people to just die.

This is perhaps one of the more disappointing aspects of the collapse of the 'old internet' and its replacement with the venture capital backed enshittification engine that it is now. Tech people used to be mostly people who were curious about things. That might not be a selector for 'good' person but it's at least a selector against the kind of brutally effective banal corporate evil that so dominates the space today.

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