That's why I'm asking a question. For me the difference between then and now is then, 2015 it was still a thing that I saw hanging in the future, the OPM hack is what prompted me to write this. But if I had not written this then I would probably be writing it today on account of the ICE article currently on the front page.

All of those big tech companies have willingly given in to Trump and his band of goons and are cooperating at a scale that dwarfs anything the Germans could have ever wished for. The article shows the damage that one single field in one single file could do. Now multiply that by a couple of 1000.

The potential for an epic disaster is definitely there and even HN is apparently not immune to having its share of bootlickers and bootwearers.

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DoctorOetker 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

you reference an ICE article "currently" on the front page, I think this comment would benefit from an explicit link to that discussion since it is ephemeral and I am unable to make sure I find the right one.

	▲	Kim_Bruning 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46895860

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Kim_Bruning 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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defrost 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

To cast the entire HN community as composed of {X} would be against the guidelines.

To deny that the HN community contains some {X} would be blinkered.

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jacquesm 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No, I'm perfectly fine with writing what I wrote.

It's an observed fact and I honestly don't care what anybody thinks of that. It should be pretty clear that I think that seeing such excesses requires one to take a stance rather than just to pretend it isn't happening.

	▲	Kim_Bruning 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		As you wish.

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frumplestlatz 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> All of those big tech companies have willingly given in to Trump and his band of goons and are cooperating at a scale that dwarfs anything the Germans could have ever wished for.

This is dangerously ahistorical and an offensive trivialization of the scale of human suffering inflicted by the Nazi regime. Fascism as practiced by the NSDAP involved the total integration of the state, the legal system, industry, media, and civil society into a single coercive apparatus in service of a genocidal war. German corporations were not “cooperating”; they were subordinated, aligned, and legally compelled within a one-party totalitarian state.

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jacquesm 5 hours ago | parent [-]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46897035

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frumplestlatz 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, we substantially disagree on a contentious policy question. That does not change historical fact, nor does it make claims like “dwarfs anything the Germans could have wished for” anything other than profound historical illiteracy.

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	▲	defrost 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		FWiW I come from a large extended family that racked up a lot of time on the pointy end of much of this; Desert Rats, Japanese PoW camps, jungle fighting, and a good deal of the post WWII ground work. So I really do have to ask you, when you spoke of: > The problem is the repeated use of Nazi analogies and grossly inflammatory language, What, exactly, is up with the current US administration, Trump, Miller, clear throws to Blood Tribe language, veiled messages of racial purity and all that .. is it all "just a joke" ? The early moves of both Stalin and Hitler, before either became the world villians we all know, was to extend their borders within their own countries so that they could sidestep "the law" of the land with their own personal squads of intesticial vagueness. The administration is unquestionably veering unilateral and authoritarian and can no longer be trusted by allies.