Yes. That is a common narrative from democrat leaning people. The same ones who called me a terrorist sympathesizer for not wanting to invade libya. The same ones that now think Trump/Musk are more evil than Bush who illegally invaded Iraq because that's what the narrative tells them.

Forgive me if I laugh at your "full stops" and other absolutist statements.

Cried wolf/nazi/evil too many times.

You’re wasting your breath. If people are going to claim democracy is being dismantled but only by republicans, then they’re a lost cause

I know which is why I seldom engage on politics of this nature but seeing HN turn into Reddit made me react, at least for today.

The article is exactly this sentiment: the experience of how how evil takes over isn’t sudden, it’s insidious and slow and happens by inches. Those around you are not crying wolf, they understand history.

Lots of people on the left who believe Bush was the worst president this country has seen in recent history, that Obama largely continued Bush’s foreign policy, and that Trumps co-conspiracy with billionaires may end up similarly to a Boris Yeltsin in the US, with large amounts of the state apparatus sold to the highest bidder or most loyal, trampling on the rights and safety net offered by the govt in the process (and likely will be no better on foreign policy, given he wants to turn Gaza into "The Riviera of the Middle East"). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Don’t really sympathize with the whining about hypocrisy or how you claim to be personally victimized by people who are hypocrites.

> Don’t really sympathize with the whining about hypocrisy or how you claim to be personally victimized by people who are hypocrites

I was with you until this strawman. You don't seem to have a point after agreeing with me.

I used to think the hacker news crowd would be beyond “Elon is evil, full stop.”

Sometimes it do be that simple.

I recommend Reddit for you.

I recommend you hide your handle from your children, because when they ask what side of holocaust 2 you were on, they might not like what they find.

I was not alive then but I was alive during the displacement of Armenians, the Gaza genocide, the million deaths in Iraq, etc.

I was also alive when pro COVID policy authoritarians wanted concentration camps for people and if I had to guess, you probably were in favor of "isolating people from society" if they didn't get a COVID19 vaccine. Just guessing, based on your NPC type of insults.

So you are not even close to ready to talk to me about human rights.