Decrying a billionaire unelected oligarch putting his greasy fingers on the inner workings of the entire American society is not necessarily liberal. Constitutional conservatives certainly can’t be happy about that either.
Elon Musk is the quintessential Silicon Valley poster child, who believes his limited domain knowledge is enough to fix all of the world’s issues. No surprise that people that think alike and populate this corner of the internet, wouldn’t see no problem there.
What he’s doing is technically and formally a coup. See how Mussolini took power in Italy.
If you can’t see that, you’re definitively part of the problem.
Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with (such as for ideological battle). We ban such accounts and it will eventually get your main account banned as well.
The person I responded to asked an honest question, and I gave an honest answer. You can feed the entirety of HN into AI, and it would come to the same conclusion: it's not a secret.
But I wasn't aware that ideological battle is off-limits. It seems like every thread is full of it, so it's hard to walk away with that impression.
The reason for a separate account is because proposing ideas that don't fit the HN mainstream can result in people trying to track you down and "punish" you for having opposing views. Unfortunate, but that's where the world is.
That's far from the case, and keeping things that way is critical to HN's future. Even now, when we're at a high-water mark because of the political externalities, it's far from the case.
It may be the case that people inclined to do ideological battle on the internet are more likely to overestimate its presence, simply because that's where their attention goes.
Personal attacks will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. Please don't post like this, and please stop perpetuating flamewars on HN. The guidelines say:
"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
Since this topic is as divisive as it gets, so your comments on it should be at maximum thoughtfulness and substantiveness right now.
Dang, as much as I understand the point, what's happening is of the utmost gravity, and ignoring it or pretending that these people can be reasoned with is like giving them a free pass. Especially explicitly trolls account like the one attacking me first. I am certainly passionate about the topic maybe more than average, and I'm certainly more political than what this community might want to be. Nonetheless, my name is out there and I'm not really hiding or trolling, just expressing strong views.
I understand and respect that HN thinks this won't lead to good conversations, and will just try to avoid the blood-boiling responses.
Elon Musk is the quintessential Silicon Valley poster child, who believes his limited domain knowledge is enough to fix all of the world’s issues. No surprise that people that think alike and populate this corner of the internet, wouldn’t see no problem there.
What he’s doing is technically and formally a coup. See how Mussolini took power in Italy. If you can’t see that, you’re definitively part of the problem.