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Orange site censoring posts left and right as US descends further into fascism
(news.ycombinator.com)
Amazing how many awful things are orange.
this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2025
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And in our moment of greatest need, they disappeared.
E: hope they just bored and stopped and not something worse.
Instead of the homepage, I now just browse lists > active and "flagged" now means "interesting for you!"
Thanks. Great hint!
This is how I use HN now. I don't bother with the censored front page anymore.
Ditto
HitlerNews lol
Funny, I'm tired of my civil rights being violated, but I guess the people who don't give a fuck being tired of hearing about it is more important.
YC is trash and an absolute waste of resources.
"high-indignation, high-intensity hot topics [...] intensely held, pre-existing positions" "not a curious conversation"
Yeah to hell with this guy. Calling this a "hot topic" and "not a curious conversation" as if it were in the same realm as tan suits and cybertrucks is a huge disservice, especially given how complicit Silicon Valley has been in all this.
I don't know if y'all have seen the video the US government put out showing off their extrajudicial human rights abuses, but seriously consider skipping it. It's dark dark Nazi shit. The most disturbing thing I've seen in my life and I wish I hadn't seen it.
OK hate reading this thread now:
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I wouldn’t describe them [Border Patrol] as nationalistic or fascist. There’s no need to bring in any sort of political view…
Heck this guy for downplaying fascism
This is how American immigration has always worked.
Heck this guy for downplaying the recent totally obvious escalations
Immigration enforcement isn't pretty anywhere, but also happens everywhere. For instance literally every single story of somebody being detained/deported from anywhere for working without a work permit is going to be a sad story
Heck this guy for normalizing what's going on
You mean those few hundred gang bangers that were brutal enough that even their home countries wouldn't accept them back?
Heck this guy for trusting, unconditionally, the feds when they claim people without criminal backgrounds (but omg tattoos) are hardened violent criminals.
So the Canadien was deported for illegally being in the USA, got caught and deported, and then got caught again for illegally entering the USA again?
Heck this guy for being generally oblivious to that horror story that was all over the news
On the other is the story, which may or may not be clickbait intended as outrage-engagement.
Heck this guy for being willfully obtuse
It says clearly in the article that she violated the terms of her visa according to ICE. Her parents never mention what the violation was. The idea she was deported for doing some chores around the house is laughable.
Heck this guy for not choosing kindness
Well, the unfortunate tourist lady was taken into custody for a suspicion to attempt to work illegally as a house help. Not sure why her family panic so much, as they live in UK, when you can go in chains for posting something on twitter or liking "inappropriate" content
Heck this guy for not choosing kindness
The incuriosity, not just in how things are, but also in how things could be changed, and even if things are really necessary.
Just 'regels zijn regels' shit. (Sorry living in .nl is great, it just has a few big flaws. Like people shouting 'regels zijn regels', who never apply those rules to themselves as well (it also amuses me a bit that this will look a bit like german so it looks like I'm doing a Godwin to people just glancing over my post)).
I suppose it'd be Regeln sind Regeln in German, though I don't know if that's an actual saying there or not.
I just started learning German recently* and so far it's a lovely language. I've already noticed how similar Dutch is just from browsing Wiktionary. Wiktionary is great because it has a declension / conjugation chart for every word I've tried -- a lot of dictionaries kind of assume you already know the grammar basics.
* As part of some in-progress US exit plans I'm not ready to talk about just yet because they might still fall through
Wonder if it would be more 'die regeln sind die regeln', but my German is quite poor. I can understand it a little bit, but can't really speak it.
omfg
I wouldn’t describe them [Border Patrol] as nationalistic
What exactly is the role of border patrol if not to literally enforce nationalism
Is anyone surprised? Mainstream social media is a fascist mouthpiece. Always has been.
"HN is a MSM site" is one hell of a take