Hacker News: GeoPolAlt

New comment by GeoPolAlt in "Apple to shutter its first unionized US store in Maryland"

GeoPolAlt — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:17:17 +0000

Unions are poison so I don’t blame them.

New comment by GeoPolAlt in "EFF Logs Out of X"

GeoPolAlt — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:17:59 +0000

https://xcancel.com/EFF/status/2042278157609480566

New comment by GeoPolAlt in "The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy"

GeoPolAlt — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:10:11 +0000

Republicans have talked like this for a long time, see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community

New comment by GeoPolAlt in "Pentagon Threatened the Pope After He Criticized Trump"

GeoPolAlt — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:19:03 +0000

Worth remembering that the Pope is a US citizen, who now will not return to the US due to threats by his own government.

New comment by GeoPolAlt in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

GeoPolAlt — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:44:26 +0000

Trump and Leavitt have both said that Lebanon is not part of the ceasefire

New comment by GeoPolAlt in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

GeoPolAlt — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:21:33 +0000

I think this war will be the moment that historians mark as the death of Pax Americana. The US failed to change the Iranian regime, failed to open the strait, and now a previously international waterway will be tolled in a currency other than the dollar.

I wish it need not have happened in my time