News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy. Parent comment

Re:Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy by dpark on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @01:06PM (#46124271)
I would agree that government run stores falls into the communist playbook. Despite the communism boogie man, though, I don’t think supporting a couple of communist policies strictly makes a person a communist.

Trump sent a bunch of government checks to people during Covid and no one called him communist for this.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy by philipallstar on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @02:44AM (#46131353)
> Trump sent a bunch of government checks to people during Covid and no one called him communist for this.

Giving people money on a temporary basis is the opposite of the government opportunistically taking over areas of the market.

[ Parent | on HN ]