Not sure about everyone else, but when I first opened the page, I see a background image of a kid in ice skates, face-planted on a frozen pond — and, below the question What can America do for you?, the prefilled text in the search box says Try 'How can I invest in my child's future?'.
And I'll be damned if that doesn't sum up the last 10–12 years.
Idk I’m getting pretty tired of pretending things are fine because line goes up. Feel like the first thing I’m going to do when we jump the proverbial shark (e.g. a military coup) is come onto this forum and say a big, fat told you so to the technocratic optimists siding with the fascists. Unfortunately the slide into a failed state (like Russia) is slow and depressing, rather than sudden and exciting.
It is also important to call things like they are. There is a line between speaking the truth and being apathic. Im not sure that the line has been crossed myself. He is right though, Hackernews and a lot of people are acting like this isnt a real problem. Hackernews often flags things that call attention to these matters and many users downvote people that try to call attention to what is happening.
A large segment of the human population is extremely uncomfortable with conflict. They will go to great lengths to maintain status quo in the face of insane injustice.
HN has become the home base for many of these people.
Of course, this is exactly what MLK Jr. was talking about when he described the problem caused by the "white moderate". But these people have never read MLK Jr., so it doesn't matter.
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And I'll be damned if that doesn't sum up the last 10–12 years.
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HN has become the home base for many of these people.
Of course, this is exactly what MLK Jr. was talking about when he described the problem caused by the "white moderate". But these people have never read MLK Jr., so it doesn't matter.