Re:Ask HN: YC please talk about Immigration Order
by winter_blue on Saturday January 28, 2017 @10:54AM
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It's good to hear that you're standing up for your principals. What's the status of the right-wing movement in the Scandinavian countries? It's really getting a grip in many countries in Europe, and that's been very discouraging to hear.
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Re:Ask HN: YC please talk about Immigration Order
by up_so_floating on Saturday January 28, 2017 @11:00AM
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The OP is just virtue-signaling. He presumably still buys products from third-world dictatorships. Let's ask him. OP, how can you justify boycotting America and not China or a myriad of other countries that are ruled under a far more oppressive regime.
Re:Ask HN: YC please talk about Immigration Order
by nine_k on Saturday January 28, 2017 @11:05AM
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Which products these might be?
Btw a number of vendors mark third world products as "ethically sourced", so it's possible to avoid products from dictatorships.
Re:Ask HN: YC please talk about Immigration Order
by toyg on Saturday January 28, 2017 @11:14AM
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The difference is that places like China have very little influence over "us". We trade, that's it. Whereas the US, through Hollywood, Nato, SV and general industry, has humongous cultural and economic influence. When my Prime Minister goes hand-in-hand with your President and licks his gold-plated boots, we feel it. When you "help" our neighbors fall into civil war and we get millions of refugees, we feel it. And so on and so forth. This why we feel a duty to resist and condemn trends in American politics that we see as destructive: because you are our Rome and we can't afford you to take your imperial duties this lightly.
Re:Ask HN: YC please talk about Immigration Order
by geofft on Saturday January 28, 2017 @11:09AM
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What's there to justify? Even if 'eksemplar is a hypocrite, but is accurately representing the opinions of a large number of Scandinavians, we, the US, have an economic problem, and saying "You're all hypocrites" isn't going to solve the problem.
(Also, go back to Reddit with your "OP" business.)
Re:Ask HN: YC please talk about Immigration Order
by RileyKyeden on Saturday January 28, 2017 @11:30AM
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> (Also, go back to Reddit with your "OP" business.)
OP is short for original post(er). It's much older than both Reddit and HN.