What is happening to the USA? I am honestly more scared for our country because of the current pervasive political divisiveness than I am because of climate change. At least with climate change you have a few decades to prepare. The USA wasn't anything like it is now 20 years ago in terms of divisiveness, and it seems like the divisiveness is getting worse every year. A "cold civil war" I've heard it called.

> 20 years ago

It wasn't even like this 4 years ago.

Maybe you missed donglegate six years ago. These people aren't new, but they seem to be gaining in numbers and influence.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/how-dongle-jokes...

It's almost like something really divisive happened within the last 4 years or so. I can't imagine what.

You bet - the political elites got thoroughly rejected and the resulting temper tantrum hasn't stopped yet!

The next five years should be even more exciting.

EDIT: we really need to stop referring to them as political elites; that's giving them too much credit. The wannabe political elites then - because obviously they weren't as elite as they thought - ha!

Somewhat less divisively: what ought to have been a routine democratic election took place which a lot of people invested a lot of emotion into. It’s hardly the first time a world government has had a political upset, but it does seem to be the first time a significant segment of the population lost sight of the fact that democracy only works when everybody accepts the results, even if it wasn’t the result they voted for.

I don't believe your assertion that it was the losers who didn't accept the results. The person most prominently questioning the integrity of the election was the winner. He spent months putting out strange lies about about "3 million invalid votes" and opened an advisory committee to investigate election integrity. He's only escalated it since. A couple of months ago, he claimed that the 2016 election had 16 million fake votes.

I don't think that outweighs the literal years of the RUSSIAN COLLUSION nothingburger, if you're going to talk about bogus investigations.

One of those two investigations produced 34 indictments, convictions, or guilty pleas (one of the indictments is on trial today!). The other accomplished nothing but disbanded itself after a judge ordered that the Democrats appointed to the committee should be allowed to see what the committee was doing.

One of them was headline news for years on end before fizzling out after it became evident that it didn't even come close to the supposedly imminent impeachment of the president. The other was a minor thing that nobody really took seriously and ended years ago.

"Well, other than 34 indictments and convictions, it was a nothing burger..."

"Well, other than the interruption, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?"

Stacey Abrams

Did she say something about Trump's election being illegitimate?

I mean, I was argumentative AF on facebook as long as 8 years ago.

This is why I moved out. Look up the DAFT.

Is there any way to have evidence for what you're saying?

I've been looking for at this HN thread and there still hasn't been any evidence of the original tweets.

Why would people be mad at Charles for "let's have a reasonable phone call and sort this out civilly."?

There seems to be some missing information including a video that no one has posted.

It's also clear as mud how things got from a tussle on Twitter the whole content/participation of which is also pretty fuzzy to a ban from a conference that had no apparent connection. (The conference is in about a week so nothing happened at the conference itself.)

The Linux Foundation did do a code of conduct post thread on Twitter which, among other things, mentions you can violate an event CoC before an event although it's also unclear what that means. I'm sure more than a few of the 10,000 people attending Kubecon have, at some point in their lives, done something to upset someone else on Twitter.

That was actually their stated reason: "tone policing":

https://twitter.com/cmaxw/status/1192261086810116096?s=20

So that means they fully accepted and swallowed Mei's fabricated, ascribed motivation.

Wonderful. Another big score for Mei's list of successful reputation attacks.

Isn't policing tones what CoC are about?

I doubt 10 people know the real story behind this. Everyone here should practice the MYOB principle.

edit: DuskStar - I obviously edited this substantially, because I added nothing of value and only served to continue discussion of this submission. Both of the conclusions you jumped to are incorrect, it's a shame we were unable to have a mutually respectful exchange about it.

EDIT: My apologies for the lack of conversation here, then.

Original comment:

I'm confused by the significance of that link. Are you trying to suggest that since he was against firing James Damore, or since he's complained about character assassination in the past, his future opinions should be ignored?

What is the MYOB principle? I did a Google search, but Google seems to think I'm looking for a company out of Australia that makes accounting and resource planning software for businesses. Given your commment and the context of this thread, I suspect that's not what you're referring to.

I'm guessing MYOB => Mind your own business.

I'd like to point out that this "racist guy" has also never said anything racist. The WORST thing he said was told a black woman to "shut your mouth"

> ...He's obviously siding with racists instead of siding with the marginalized minorities.

Hopefully you aren't being too serious. I could easily imagine someone saying that who was taking B's side in the dispute. No one should be banned from a conference and slandered as a hateful, violence-inclined etc. person for trying his best to de-escalate a conflict, no matter how misguided and perhaps even outrageous.

I read that as sarcasm, but yes it is a little hard to tell.

For anyone who wants to hear Mr. Sonmez's side of the story, here's a video on the topic from his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4yYSi32fKI

Don't try to logically think your way out of issues that weren't logically entered into in the first place, it's pointless.

These folks don't want to resolve anything, they just want to point at a "bad guy" and have them be harmed.