In my experience people who idolize billionaires, especially those that think empathy is weakness, have questionable judgement and lack a moral compass.
So of course they’ll try to ridicule people like you and me.
Especially on a forum started by billionaires looking for the next billionaires, frequented by people who would stop at nothing to become a billionaire.
Don’t give up on pointing this character flaw out everywhere you see it, as our children come across threads like these on a daily basis. And they need to see the bootlickers for what they are.
A society that values free expression should be uncomfortable with people being fired merely for holding a different political opinion from their boss.
In the Netherlands, “political opinion” is explicitly listed as a protected discrimination ground.
And in Europe generally, employee speech can fall under freedom of expression, though courts balance that against the employer’s interests, reputation, workplace disruption, etc.
Meanwhile, in the US you'll get fired by phone while your boss is golfing.
I get that people in the US need to be apathetic towards politics to even survive in today's hopelessly divided and misinformed society, as it is a taboo subject that ends careers and family connections.
But the rest of the world lives in a more free speech society.
There's a whole world where you don't have to avoid politics and you can be freely anti-fascist, without worrying that the self proclaimed hardcore nerd in the corner breaks his silence and starts yelling to HR that we have to stop criticising his billionaire idols and focus on things that matter less.
I'm not a VC guru but in my opinion you can't include the time and money it takes to grow a tree and mine the iron to compare the time it takes to hammer in a nail with a hammer versus using your fist.
The problem with crappy forums is that young people don't know how they work.
And forums with only old people die. Because people just tend to die.
That's why I made my 20+ year old niche agricultural forum a hybrid: a social media like feed plus a traditional forum. It fits the huge amount of image posts better as well. Of course I ran into some user revolt redesigning it this way, but users mostly like it.