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Re:Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drillin... by ETH_start on Sunday November 09, 2025 @09:00PM (#45871429)
The views of the politics of those involved is not controversial. They are very much part of the American left, as their X feed makes abundantly clear.
Re:Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drillin... by ndsipa_pomu on Monday November 10, 2025 @04:40AM (#45874250)
As I understand it, X is a cesspit of right-wing hate and vitriol, so I wouldn't trust their evaluation of "left". As I said, it's really not a useful term to use and you're diverting the discussion away from the issues involved to a discussion of politics instead. Your comments come across as if you're trying to push a specific narrative.
Re:Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drillin... by ETH_start on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @05:14AM (#45885795)
Please don't take my words for it. See their X feed and judge for themselves whether they have a partisan agenda:

https://x.com/propublica

I think where an outlet stands in the larger political landscape is useful context and there's nothing distracting or inappropriate about bringing it up, so we can agree to disagree.

Re:Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drillin... by ndsipa_pomu on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @07:24AM (#45886499)
I don't plan on visiting that site whilst it's being run by a blatant Nazi. There was a literal world war to stop that kind of evil and yet people seem to have forgotten. I hope you are not one of those people - I'm always suspicious of anyone that continues to use X/Twitter.

It's funny, Musk has enough money to end world hunger and instead he decides to be a complete arsehole.

Re:Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drillin... by port11 on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @08:01AM (#45886806)
I couldn't open their X because it's a technological abomination, but their Bluesky doesn't paint the image of a blatantly left-wing and super partisan channel that willingly ignores reporting on the public sector.

Amongst the top 10 things I saw them complaining about a state government, public regulators not doing their job well… it's not dramatic.

Maybe it's my European lens indeed, but it seems like a generic centrist media outlet, with maybe an anti-elites edge, which I'd expect from the Fourth Estate.

Re:Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drillin... by ETH_start on Saturday November 15, 2025 @11:22PM (#45942746)
"Amongst the top 10 things I saw them complaining about a state government, public regulators not doing their job well… it's not dramatic."

Not doing their job of sufficiently constraining the private sector, which is just part of the same narrative of advocating for more state control.