Highlighting parts of the HN community guidelines that most facilitied their commie hijacking, and lead to one of the dumbest and worst “smart people” forums ever to exist, as even its creator eventually agreed.
Top-most weapon?
First two words.
= the civility rule.
Deprived of all other means of keeping out bad actors, no financial liability, no guns, none of the usual mechanisms for filtering groups to those who will be real,
— Trash talking is the very last line of defense.
Eliminating trash talking sounds so nice and innocent.
But eliminate that last line of defense, especially without any acceptable substitute and everything falls apart.
Key to civility is the potential to be uncivil.
Bring back gatekeepng.
Top-most weapon?
First two words.
= the civility rule.
Deprived of all other means of keeping out bad actors, no financial liability, no guns, none of the usual mechanisms for filtering groups to those who will be real,
— Trash talking is the very last line of defense.
Eliminating trash talking sounds so nice and innocent.
But eliminate that last line of defense, especially without any acceptable substitute and everything falls apart.
Key to civility is the potential to be uncivil.
Bring back gatekeepng.
“online violence”
Weaponization of “holidays”
Woke insanity of Europe will soon spread to the US too
But doesn’t wokeness flow in the opposite direction, from US to overseas?
No, not at first.
US has vastly more people believing in natural rights than virtually anywhere else in the world, after centuries of attracting such people.
Not the ideal mental sewer of an environment these movements need to take root.
Virtually all communism and wokeness movements first taking root overseas, before spreading to the US.
Always been that way.
You never hear about it, for a variety of reasons, but is how it is.
Weaponization of “holidays”
Woke insanity of Europe will soon spread to the US too
But doesn’t wokeness flow in the opposite direction, from US to overseas?
No, not at first.
US has vastly more people believing in natural rights than virtually anywhere else in the world, after centuries of attracting such people.
Not the ideal mental sewer of an environment these movements need to take root.
Virtually all communism and wokeness movements first taking root overseas, before spreading to the US.
Always been that way.
You never hear about it, for a variety of reasons, but is how it is.
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Canadians working hard to bring their “hate speech” censoring rules to the US,
expand their definition of “hate speech” to cover everything,
and require KYC everywhere.
All with good intentions, ofc.
Tale as old as time.
+ Never trust bleached blondes supposedly doing serious business.
expand their definition of “hate speech” to cover everything,
and require KYC everywhere.
All with good intentions, ofc.
Tale as old as time.
+ Never trust bleached blondes supposedly doing serious business.
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