That's totally fair, nobody is happy with DOGE at this point and a lot of people were skeptical and nervous as it was happening. I just don't recall anyone popping in to say "damn it, they're doing it wrong!".

lol, do you think it is a coincidence that going after DC’s money was met with more media attention than other things? I don’t.

But DOGE (as conceived) is the wet dream of a libertarian from any era. If anything it's a bone that Trump threw to libertarians. It's not especially MAGA imho.

> a bunch of people excusing his behavior

And also a bunch of people condemning his behavior. And many or most of the comments about him from either side are flagged. Most people here are bored of the topic and want to talk about topics that satisfy intellectual curiosity, which is what this site is for.

This site gets millions of visits and tens of thousands of commenters posting hundreds of thousands of comments each month. The ideological skew is what you would expect of a site that attracts hackers, tech industry employees and freelancers; strongly socially left and moderately economically left, but forming a normal distribution with representation from across the spectrum of reasonable opinion, just as you would expect in any large group of people,

The guidelines start with a directive to "be kind", and people who are unkind or who advocate unkindness get penalized and banned here.

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

> Leftism begins with anti-capitalism

Can we please not open a comment with a dogmatic claim about a nebulous ideological concept? After some of the most sophisticated thinkers in history have debated topics like this for centuries, we are not going to move the needle here, today.

If you want to engage in battle over ideology, please find one of the many places on the internet that are set up to host debates about ideology. You've been here long enough to know very well that comments like this are against the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Also, on this:

> "yeah but Jensen made so much money"

Please don't ever post false quotes here or mischaracterize the community like this. There's not a single instance of that text string in this thread or indeed in the entire two decades of HN, and it's not an accurate reflection of any significant strand of thought here.

People are debating whether the offence is severe enough to warrant dismissal from the company, given how successful and important the company is and given his role in building it, which is a perfectly valid question for thoughtful people to debate. Nobody is saying he should be excused of any/all wrongdoing simply because he “made so much money”. Please stop trashing this community with slurs like this.

Die-hard socialists often consider "liberals" to be soft-core right wingers. I'm not sure there's an objective center, it's all a matter of perspective.