Effective Altruism is still great, and never stopped being great. Guilt does not transfer by association in this way.

There's definitely _something_ there, but, as with all philosophies, the internet has taken it and run with it to a fairly absurd degree, to the point where, for many adherents, it's basically a religion.

It's not. Feeding kids, researching vaccines and a bunch of other things that billionaires are funding should not depend on the graces and whims of billionaires, it should be something provided for by the government.

HN crowd is ... mixed, it's perhaps the one last true melting pot we have on the Internet. A curse and a blessing, if you ask me.

You got truly anything here. Europeans that in general tend to lean more towards "democratic socialism" and its various offshoots, American libertarians (which have a large intersection with Musk fanboys), a bunch of extremely rich startup founders, American progressives, conservatives of all kinds, Zionists and Hamas apologists, probably Russian and Chinese psy-ops, accelerationists, preppers... name any ideology and you'll find supporters on HN.

What has changed a bit is that tribalism seems to have taken over from civilized or at least arguments and fact oriented discourse. Personally, I'd prefer if downvotes and especially flags would require one to give a reason so that repeat offenders that just flag and downvote everything they disagree with can get suspended for ruining discussion.

Interesting how you put "hamas apologists" and not pro-palestinians next to Zionists. How would you have felt if it was written "pro-palestinains and genocide-apologists"?

I have yet to meet any "pro-palestinian" that doesn't devolve into "rape is resistance", "from the river to the sea", "yallah yallah intifada" or other justifications of Oct 7th being a "legitimate act of resistance" in a matter of minutes.

In contrast, all Zionists I know utterly despise Netanyahu and his far-right government.

> I have yet to meet any "pro-palestinian" that doesn't devolve into "rape is resistance"

> In contrast, all Zionists I know utterly despise Netanyahu and his far-right government.

Oh dear

As it happens, I know plenty of people who don't think the people in Gaza should be genocided and none of them support rape.

Many of the self-labelled Zionists I know support Bibi and think Gaza should be razed to the ground.

Go figure!

Do you know what a "bubble" is? In fact, do you actually know any pro-palestinain people or do you get media that tells you about them? These are not the same thing. Very neat that you included "from the river to the sea" as right alongside rape. Very telling.

PS you can find street interviews of random isreali's where they will straight up tell you they wish all palestinians were killed with very little prompting. But I guess they just don't count huh?

If you want to meet pro-palestinians that don't have cartoonishly stereotyped opinions I suggest meatspace and not online.