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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite poems? on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @03:24PM (#15297318)

    They fuck you up, your mum and dad.

        They may not mean to, but they do.   

    They fill you with the faults they had

        And add some extra, just for you.


    But they were fucked up in their turn

        By fools in old-style hats and coats,  
 
    Who half the time were soppy-stern

        And half at one another’s throats.


    Man hands on misery to man.
        
        It deepens like a coastal shelf.

    Get out as early as you can,

        And don’t have any kids yourself.
Police culture and worship is incredibly ingrained in mainstream America. How can you say its a "small area of life" when the police have authority in nearly every matter of your life? The police have the power to kill you indiscriminately. They can legally rob you. They are omnipresent in America and the NFL and FOX continually blast pro boys in blue imagery. To even talk ill of cops is seriously shunned - I grew up in a small town and the police were absolutely worshipped and had obscene amounts of power.

To argue, as BLM does, that we should restructure the entire policing system (some say even dismantle it) is to conduct a reimagining of what power and authority means in this country.

In a place where "law and order" (one of Trump's favorite phrases) and the administration of "justice" is upheld as the highest ideal, to decisively argue against normative ideas of them is certainly counter culture.

Also antifa is not reactionary. Many members of antifa orgs run community kitchens, organize reading groups, or build small farms or communes.

Re:Twitter Suspends 300k Accounts Tied to Terrorism in 2017 on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @02:22PM (#15287362)
>better to debate them in an open forum, even if they are evil.

this implies they actually want to have a discussion and not just spew bile everywhere, dox innocent people, and vote brigade racist bullshit.

>And, at the same time, there are no young/anti-establishment people of today of any consequence

LGBTQ spaces and movements? Black Lives Matter? Occupy Wall St and the subsequent progressive upswell which led to Bernie Sanders, an unknown independent from Vermont, to garner nearly as many votes as one of the most well-known politicians on the planet?

Not just white men - trump won with all categories of people identifying as white
Re:Ask HN: What would you do with MySpace on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @05:00PM (#15242619)
I would remake the site exactly as it was in 2006/7.

Exactly. Down to the customizable HTML/CSS for profiles.

It would be such a hit of post-irony nostalgia that nearly everyone who was on it would jump back to it. We would get millions of users in a week, easy. All it would take is one Buzzfeed-style article "Remember the MySpace of your youth? It's back"

Then, showing the hockey stick growth, I'd sell it next week.

Re:Most Female and Male Occupations Since 1950 on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @04:41PM (#15242409)
I've been lurking here since it started. It's not patronizing - it's pointing out a basic statistical fact. Has the bar on HN truly fallen so low that pointing out that anecdote != data is now considered rude?
Re:Most Female and Male Occupations Since 1950 on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @02:20PM (#15241059)
>That seems high to me, from my own experiences.

It's almost as if your own individual experiences are not indicative of population-level trends at large

18 year olds fight in Iraq and Afghanistan right now. In fact, children who weren't even alive during 9/11 will soon be eligible to fight in one of your glorious wars
Re:Lisp Machine Manual (1984) on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @02:48PM (#15186109)
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