Hacker News: antifa

New comment by antifa in "US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela"

antifa — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:17:46 +0000

No it's not, the current regime is very open about how excited they are about getting that oil and very hand wavy about everything else.

It would be ridiculous to argue that the current regime has any genuine concerns or interest about democracy, drug trafficking (even just pardoned one), or the legitimacy of Venezuela's government.

New comment by antifa in "US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela"

antifa — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:32:54 +0000

That very good reason's name? Manufacturing Consent. Iraq WMDs 2.0 brought to you by Mr No New Wars.

New comment by antifa in "US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela"

antifa — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:28:28 +0000

> probably rightfully

Surely we're all old enough to know that's an obvious lie. The US government probably doesn't know or care if Maduro is a dictator, they're just here for the oil.

New comment by antifa in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

antifa — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:54:59 +0000

> hard time following through positions logically,

Spoken like a person who either doesn't know or doesn't care that current anti-abortion policies in several red states have women scared to get pregnant, despite wanting to do so voluntarily, because doctors are refusing life saving procedures on the mother if the state can possibly perceive it as abortion, leading to many scenarios of live births to dead mothers, including one case of a corpse being artificially kept alive for weeks for the sake of the baby.

The abortion laws of most blue states are already a rational compromise (still a very conservative leaning one) between the practical rights of women and the religious beliefs of far right totalitarians.

New comment by antifa in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

antifa — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:39:53 +0000

If I say yes, are we going to start building high speed rail?

New comment by antifa in "China is eating the world"

antifa — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 20:30:26 +0000

2010 is the year I personally go with. I could be too young to realize it actually started in 2005.

Either way, "no longer trying" is how I would describe the US leadership over the last 2 (or more!) decades.

New comment by antifa in "Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech"

antifa — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 19:33:12 +0000

Common sense would say that if you're writing a long message, you should draft it in a better editor than a chat program.

New comment by antifa in "Fed up with U.S. health care costs, these Americans moved abroad"

antifa — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 02:46:14 +0000

Also fed up with skyrocketing rent and food greedflation...

New comment by antifa in "Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC's Tech Scene Is Not"

antifa — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 02:36:34 +0000

Enough about Trump, this thread is about Mamdani.

New comment by antifa in ""None of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of FL's Book Ban Bill"

antifa — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:49:00 +0000

TIL that giving book buyers the choice between the classic uncensored version of a book and a revised version of a book with blatant antisemitism removed, a choice provided by a book publisher, is an example of the Democrats being almost as bad as Republicans.

New comment by antifa in "Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police"

antifa — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:34:10 +0000

> Larger numbers of people are rising up against the CCP and recent events are becoming more and more frequent.

Do you have a source on that, preferably one that's not quoting a cult like the chinese version of scientology, not uploading daily china-will-collaspse-soon videos, not a tankie, or other random type of propaganda/fanboy outlet?

New comment by antifa in "How AI conquered the US economy: A visual FAQ"

antifa — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 13:38:02 +0000

There is definitely a type of famine going on in the US right now, 40 million are struggling with food insecurity. There is also a crises of healthy food being unaffordable, so people are essentially eating 2x their daily calories while getting 0.5x their daily nutrients. Then there are multiple political decisions that have already been made this year that will result in various forms of crop loss (migrants scared to show up at work) and disease outbreak (RFKJr's raw milk). The results of which are likely to impact food prices. The people who are hit hardest by this will already have been hit the hardest by greedflation in rent.

New comment by antifa in "The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong"

antifa — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 11:02:35 +0000

No, the problem is when the markets are freer than the people.

New comment by antifa in "Itch.io: Update on NSFW Content"

antifa — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 11:01:48 +0000

Interesting that they pick transpeople to have a phobia over, considering the fact is you're far more likely to be assaulted in the bathroom by a cis man, transvestigator, republican, Christian, or ICE agent than a transwoman.

New comment by antifa in "Betting against YouTube Financial Influencers beat the S&P 500 (risky though)?"

antifa — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 19:20:40 +0000

Are they actually contrarians or are they people who were looking deeply into the topic and noticed both a bubble and an opportunity?

New comment by antifa in "SCP-055 is an "antimeme" – it erases itself from memory when observed"

antifa — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 18:09:06 +0000

I forgot what SCP-055 was, but I do remember it was the one that really hooked me into the SCP world.

New comment by antifa in "Why I'm skeptical of Ground News"

antifa — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:00:46 +0000

> This leads the platform to publish dodgy stories from the right, with the appearance that they are just as valid as high-fact reporting from the left or the center.

Sadly, this is downstream of mainstream news itself. I think if Ground News attempted to truly solve this problem, the right would condemn Ground News as "fake news" or controlled by Soros like they do Wikipedia.

I'm looking to be skeptical of Ground News, because almost all YouTube sponsors are scams, and we remember Honey was recently exposed as a scam, but this isn't enough to convince me.

New comment by antifa in "Microsoft to Cut 9k Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs"

antifa — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 20:26:54 +0000

What's really the difference between union guys playing a little bit of cards on the boss's dime and the boss paying you poverty wages so he can upgrade to a bigger yacht? might as well pick the option that's going to have your back.

New comment by antifa in "The United States has lower life expectancy than most similarly wealthy nations"

antifa — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:13:56 +0000

> I've heard of doctors refusing to recommend weight loss to their patients for fear of being accused of "body shaming".

I've literally never heard of this, in fact I've heard hundreds of stories about doctors refusing to put any effort into giving people a real diagnosis if they're even the slightest bit overweight.

New comment by antifa in "Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices"

antifa — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 20:15:09 +0000

Probably would have been much better under communism for the last 30 years, if you want to go by comparing China's last 30 years of growth and prosperity and comparing that to my state's last 30 years of stagnation and methlabsperity.