This is a post where the parent has already taken a very strong position/view, and is thinly veiling it in the form of a question (and not veiled very well either).
Is there a way to report these types of posts? Or better yet, to have HN remove all this incessant political commentary.
Perhaps I'll take the time to finally work on that custom Chrome extension project I've been meaning to tackle..
Exactly this. If I start a private enterprise, I'll be damned if somebody dictates that they have a private right to do or say some particular thing on services I pay hosting for.
Corporations are not beholden to pleasing every single individual.
You have to discern what people here are really outraged about - and sadly, it's not free speech or constitutional rights or any real high principle. Those are just intellectual cover.
After all, you don't see people clamoring in shock and about "unsettled" feelings regarding the moderation that happens here on HN.
Not the $10,000 Louis Vuitton handbag or the $80,000 bottle of wine or the other myriad of consumables and products that are clearly priced by what people can pay, rather than purely for their utility value?
You're going to be offended by a lot in this timeline my friend.
There's some value to their fear. I share some of it too.
These are some of the fastest-to-market vaccines ever produced. Some were also developed with technology never used before at this scale.
There's some nuance to the fear though - for example, once frontline, health workers and people like Dr Fauci are vaccinated, and it becomes clear that these are at least as safe as flu vaccines, I'll also likely take one, if only for the sole reason that I sorely miss travel.
Trickle down economics has created one of the greatest rifts in wealth equality in history. Yet people like the GP still champion the concept and its variants.
I earn fantastically at work, but any vote I make will always be against the political party that spouts the same nonsense.
Regional designations are complicated, but there is nothing complicated about passing judgment over the atrocities being perpetrated today by the CCP.
I'm simply glad that there's finally cohesion by many leaders across the world in urging that Beijing be completely stripped of the prestige of hosting the upcoming Winter Olympics.
From our Western perspective? No. From the general perspective of any culture that values human life.
Your words are an empty restatement that mirrors what most officially sanctioned Chinese media reports tell us:
That we should not/legally cannot/morally cannot oppose or interfere with these atrocities.
I urge HN readers to very carefully judge empty statements such as the GP, because while it doesn't seem like it, it is actually attempting to persuade you to accept that absolutely nothing can be done.
Very interesting to hear what the perspective is from the other side (and a little scary to imagine that even if Chinese people were free to elect their government, that they might still choose the current form). Thank you stranger!
"Some look shady, but it's mostly good".