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Re:Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify dri... by kikokikokiko on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @06:09AM (#24118816)
As a non US citizen that does not live in America and just looks from the outside, I'm always amazed at the rapid transformation going on in the last decade. If hackernews is a sample of the general american population, you guys are becoming communist. And it won't end well.
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Re:Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify dri... by linschn on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @06:24AM (#24118895)
Because from Reagan on, America has been doing quite well of course...
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Re:Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify dri... by michaniskin on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @08:17AM (#24119502)
Don’t worry, the American spirit of liberty and free market capitalism is alive and well. It’s just that most Americans are busy getting things done instead of planning everyone’s lives for them on twitter or HN.
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Re:Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify dri... by jquery on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @12:50PM (#24122466)
I would be alarmed too, except I hang out in diverse US communities. Hacker News is not a sample of the general american population. Increasingly, it is not even a sample of tech workers. Tech workers tend to be rather libertarian, and this has not changed. HN is becoming a sample of Bay Area politics and/or Twitter, neither of which are representative of the USA.

Sorry about the downvotes you received. I’ve been on HN a long time. It is sad to see the great decline of HN. Check out reddit.com/r/TheMotte if you want something a bit more representative and more similar to the HN of old, with its attendant high level of discourse as opposed to the shit-flinging and downvote brigading you see on HN today.

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Re:Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify dri... by tasubotadas on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @06:11AM (#24118826)
That's probably mostly California but yeah - it's amazing (also as an European but from a post-soviet country).
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