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ahmeneeroe-v2 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

It's weird that people think popular ideas flow from popular politicians instead of realizing that politicians picking up popular ideas is what makes the politician popular.

In other words: idea -> pol.

Everything else you said should get you flagged, but it is popular here so I'm not holding my breath.

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tt24 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I don’t see it as ragebait, I think the parent comment provides a valuable counter narrative to the typical HN talking points

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immibis 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

How do you see it having value?

Merely being a counter-narrative to some other narrative is not valuable in itself, otherwise all sorts of nonsense would be valuable. Proof that counter-narratives are not automatically valuable: "the moon is made of blue cheese" and "the moon is made of green cheese" provide worthless counter-narratives to each other.

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tt24 6 days ago | parent [-]

I think the comment you replied to explains it well enough and I don’t feel the need to repeat myself.

I will edit my comment as well since you edited yours instead of responding. I don’t think the GP’s comment is the equivalent of saying that the moon is made of cheese.

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therobots927 6 days ago | parent [-]

The original parent comment (now flagged) essentially said: only people who reproduce have any right to have any say in how society operates. Especially when it comes to mass surveillance.

Which is patently absurd on its face. Much like saying the moon is made of cheese.

Edit: I’m done pretending like regressive ideas like removing voting rights from entire segments of the population are points for valid discussion.

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tt24 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

What makes it patently absurd? I don’t agree with this perspective but I don’t agree that it’s the equivalent of saying that the moon is made of cheese. I found their perspective much more interesting than the typical HN opinions, shame it was flagged.

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ahmeneeroe-v2 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You may be done with that idea but the idea is not done. We can choose to limit the franchise or we can have it imposed on us when a strongman takes advantage of the chaos.

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		"We can wait for our enemy to blow us up with nukes, or we can choose to blow ourselves up with nukes first"

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