such a large part of what's going on extends directly from billionaire tech culture - Musk, Thiel, A16Z - this culture is where things like "we should annex Canada and Greenland" come from. It links closely to "countries should carefully engineer the racial makeup of their nations" as well as "Democracy is obsolete" - both concepts that require draconian and centralized authoritarian control over the lives of citizens both immigrant and non-immigrant alike, as we see now taking place in the US at breakneck speed.

Hacker News is to some extent in this extremely rarefied zone where billionaire tech culture reaches out into the broader tech culture to find new recruits as well as where potential recruits seek connections to this club. This is why I think it's very important that "the other viewpoint" is presented here. Being a tech billionaire is inherently political; you can't be a tech billionaire and claim you aren't a heavily political figure (seriously, PG did a post on the evil of "Wokeness" of all things and the 1000+ comment thread went strong for days). HN's claimed desire to be "non political" is a ruse meant to favor the politics of tech billionaire culture to the exclusion of all others.

edit: and there's the flag. please disperse, citizens!