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Musk adds Ukrainian blood to his already sopping-wet hands.

DEI did not implode; it was heavily and viciously assaulted.

There is no evidence that Democratic voters would vote en masse for somebody running on a platform of *undermining democracy*. (In fact, there's evidence that they would reject such a candidate, given how quickly candidates with any sort of problematic past -- like Platner and Franken -- are discarded.)

In contrast, MAGA Republicanism is fundamentally centered on accruing power and codifying hierarchy at the expense of everything else.

This entire comment is a giant strawman that fails to address the point I was making.

Half the voting population elected a fascist demagogue. Fundamentally, swing state voters are not the issue: that's just a weird artifact of our electoral system. The issue is that something like 40-45% of the population will literally vote for *anyone* in the Republican party, even if they're "America's Hitler". Project 2025 made it blatantly obvious what they were voting for.

Even if the Democratic party better adapts to swing voters' needs -- even if they win! -- that 40-45% remains a ticking time bomb. A democracy can't survive when close to half the voting population values party victory over democracy.

Factually, Harris as a candidate was orders of magnitude better than Trump: a boring, competent, left-leaning centrist. In a functioning society, a reactionary revolutionary like Trump -- complete with Project 2025 manifesto -- should have scraped off maybe 5-to-10% of the vote, almost regardless of his competition.

The problem wasn't really Harris, who got very close to half the vote. The problem is that half the voting population does not think that electing a fascist demagogue is that big of a deal, or compares favorably to electing a boring centrist. This suggests that our civic culture is fundamentally broken at the moment. You can't run a society like this!

Unfortunately, he's surrounded by intelligent people (Vought) who are somewhat adept at channeling his rage towards their own perverse goals.

At what point does steelmanning become whitewashing? There's no particularly nuance as to why the US is doing this.

If half the voting population elects a vicious moron completely unsuitable for power, that's not the fault of the opposition. *They actively chose to vote for the fascist.*

Party of personal responsibility and all that.

120 Iranian schoolgirls would have loved to hear this lecture.

Some news articles just from today:

> The civil war in the far-right is coming down to Jews: https://forward.com/culture/851192/the-civil-war-in-the-far-...

> ‘Unforgivable Sin’: Pentagon Reportedly ‘Hiding’ US Deaths in Iran War: https://www.commondreams.org/news/pentagon-hiding-us-deaths-...

> Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/19/stephen-mill...

> Trump says he’s banning MS NOW, CNN and Politico from White House: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/18/trump-white-house-ban-msnow-...

> Trump says his son’s wedding party being bankrolled by a Russian oligarch is ‘totally allowed’: https://apnews.com/article/trump-jr-wedding-oligarch-fbd62b7...

Human rights abuses, extrajudicial murders, egregious corruption, gutter racism, suppression of speech, erosion of democracy: same shit nonstop every single day for the past two years.

Anyone who supports Republicans with full knowledge of what they've been doing is actively supporting evil. And yes, any informed person with an iota of morality should be up in arms about this.

PEBCAK

Here's another meta-lesson: "woke" turns out to be broadly popular and is not actually going away.

Yes, many people *genuinely* give a fuck that tech leaders are promoting white supremacy and ethnic cleansing, and there will be actual consequences for this.

Different opinions like, uhm, white supremacy and ethnic cleansing. Boy, these takes will surely age well!

Here's another cool idea: boycott fash technology like any true hacker should. (And pressure companies to redirect some of those millions to more worthwhile open source projects.)

Anyone who knows anything about Christianity knows that the New Testament supersedes the Old Testament.

Well, except the administration changed the name and then immediately engaged in wars of blatant aggression with Venezuela and Iran.

What we choose to call things *is* important.

"You could say develop a target selection approach that is less likely to blow up a school halfway across the world than existing approaches."

Sure, you save some lives. Then the military realizes they can apply violence far more liberally than they ever could before. Subsequent conflicts result in a whole lot more death for the losing side. Maybe a lot more "militar-aged men" end up as cannon fodder for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Or... do those lives not count? Depends on your definition of "evil," I guess: I'm using the Christian one.

No. America hate anti-fascism.

Bullshit: the primary reason Trump (and many other right-wingers) are in power is economic. Pushback to this sort of outward white supremacy is, in fact, quite popular.

And to a large degree, there is little point in rationally debating these concerns as they are rooted in racial animus. If somebody deeply feels that their glorious white race is being replaced by hordes of deranged brown immigrants, that's not a position they can be argued out of: it's an axiomatic outlook on the nature of society and humanity that, for the most part, only generational turnover (and maybe life experience) can correct.

False: "most of us" is just vibes based on chatter in your chosen social circles. Rest assured this is not actually the case.

"When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them."

This is not "homeless pooping in the bushes," but just "gypsies". And the (very, very intentional) juxtaposition of killing wolves to deporting an entire ethnic group is revolting.

Not OP, but personally I spent some time reading DHH's blog posts. They are truly vile. It's entirely reasonable to want to boycott any product that sends money his way.

*You* don't care about it. Please don't confuse this with no one caring about it. I care a lot, as do most of my peers. If you don't see any pushback to this bullshit in your follows, you are in a bubble.

Renown liar Altman releasing a PR statement for his product declaring that AGI is here is really not noteworthy.

January sixers got collective pardons and a pat on the head. (Plus a bunch of money IIRC?)

Why? Because HN is unironically full of dyed-in-the-wool fascists these days.

Maybe working under ruthless, hierarchical corporate structures all your life breaks your brain a little.

Is the leftism with us in the room right now?