theplague42

Do you sincerely think Last Week Tonight is on the same level as South Park?

I don't see why politicians would bother to create a poorly-designed public-facing website to steal an election.

You obviously didn't even open the link. This isn't an "article." It's a twitter thread of screenshots from 4chan.

It's trivial to demonstrate that that claim is false.

Someone in this thread linked the page to the "voting" screen. It's just a form to print a new ballot that you would then mail or bring in person.

It won't. This is blatant misinformation.

Can you actually cancel a ballot through the online portal or not?

The tweet does far more than imply.

Why are you posting 4Chan garbage to HackerNews? Is this even confirmed?

It fits the reactionary narrative so I'm not sure why it's surprising.

There's a whole book dedicated to this theory!

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691183251/th...

Thank you for doing that.

Do people need to know how to balance a checkbook anymore?

love to see fascism apologists on HN

Surely the government is elected by the inhabitants, right?

Do you legitimately believe that US intelligence agencies are the bulwark against authoritarian government in the US?

IIRC they only made these tweaks are being pressured by the government. They were perfectly happy breaking the law when it allowed them to grow quickly.

Yeah this entire post is filled with comments misrepresenting (intentionally or unintentionally) the dynamics at play here, and it's all fine and good because "California state government bad."

In part by ignoring city and state laws!

Is there an Uber/Lyft driver union?

Employers are not required to provide health plans. The issue is that Uber provides _some_ employees with health plans while keeping their lower-paid workers classified as contractors, even if they work essentially full-time.

I think the heart of the issue is VC-backed startups trying their hardest to circumvent laws until they are big enough that enforcing the laws makes people mad.

You could read the new law, or a summary. It's not super hard to understand.

Does the cab model not work?

this whole thread is a travesty

Does the California court order apply to these part-time drivers? I thought it only affected drivers essentially working full-time.

I don't think the comment is claiming the OP is a shill; just that OP's description is idealistic i.e. what OP _wants_ to think of the situation, and not authentic to the average driver's experiences.

So many assertions, so little evidence. Surely there is value added by basic research funded by the government, technology created for space or military purposes, and providing the enforcement of laws necessary for people to want to start businesses in the first place!

It's not other people's money, it's the government's money! They printed it.

How many people have 100% ownership of a 50m business? How many people have more than 50/100m net worth (depending on the proposal) in the US?

When you already have another 145 billion? More than you could possibly spend in your lifetime?

You don't think billionaires have political power? What about the tax breaks states use to entice Amazon to build a new HQ? What about Elon Musk trying to shape public opinion against rail transit?

The US literally just elected a billionaire with no prior political experience to the Presidency four years ago!