When you say "HN", do you mean you? Who else was surprised? The place is full of people constantly commenting about how bad the US is, how corrupt the government is, how terrible CEOs (particularly Altman) are, late stage capitalism, etc., etc.

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LoganDark an hour ago | parent | next [-]

You know those people have existed since practically forever, right? You learn to tune it out and then you never notice if they start being less wrong.

	▲	wslh 36 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I don't want to spoil Marty Supreme (2025), but there's a provocative line delivered by Kevin O’Leary (yes, the Shark Tank guy): "I was born in 1601. I’m a vampire. I’ve been around forever."

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spiderfarmer an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I’m one of those criticasters and I’m getting downvoted constantly. I don’t care about the downvotes. I do care about western countries slipping into fascism just because people are so proud to admit they voted for a stupid clown.

	▲	fnimick 7 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I'm more upset about the large group of people in the startup industry, possibly even a majority, who would be totally happy about countries slipping into fascism if they made a little more money along the way. Who cares about ethics and morality? Those aren't profitable!
	▲	LoganDark 23 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I think a lot of voters didn't know what they were getting the country into, or just were too ignorant or misinformed to notice, in voting for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party. There are actual fascists too, of course. I'm just disappointed that they won; the damage has already been immeasurable, and to some extent irreversible, and we're not even halfway into the term.