I've always had the impression that there's a strong right leaning bias on HN. I guess that means there's actually a good spread of opinions? Or maybe it comes across differently from the European perspective.
Regardless the DOGE/Musk stuff touches so much on technical/startup related stuff that it starts to become absurd to paint it as purely political and to say it doesn't belong here. There are very few other forums where people understand the security implications of someone having physical access to a server for example, or where the phrase "move fast and break stuff" is familiar to anyone.
This thread is a great example - there are comments holding the positions you're asking for. Luckily they generally don't seem to be doing so uncritically, but that's what we want from this forum, right?
Why are those comments not good enough in your eyes?
> limited government, free markets, private property, self-ownership, self-defense, and personal responsibility without dependence on collectivism—along with traditional social values and a recognition of natural social hierarchies based on merit and value
Yes those are what I mean as well when I say I find the HN hivemind to be quite far to the right :-) although I of course want to disagree with your phrasing implying that meritocracies are in any way "natural" in the social sphere.
I though there's be a minimum age of 18 to register here?
Put it on a left/right issue if you want, but in reality it is about following the law (which is not happening otherwise Trump's EOs and DOGE actions wouldn't be in court so often) and treating government workers with respect. You really want to side with a felon who pardoned almost all J6ers, even those who caused the death of police officers? You want to side with those who want to kill the investigation against Mayor Adams but might want to restart the investigation at a later point? You want to side with the US president who sides with the Russia autocrat and aggressor Putin? You want to side with the President who clearly has no understanding of how tariffs work but announces them against the neighbouring countries with which he previously negotiated a free trade agreement after breaking the old one?
This seems less like a genuine discussion and more like an emotional appeal bundled with a series of accusations. Laws are challenged in court all the time—that's part of the process, not proof of wrongdoing. As for government workers, respect should be earned, not demanded. And as for siding with someone, politics isn't a simple binary where supporting one action means endorsing everything a person has ever done. If we're going to have a meaningful conversation, it should be based on facts and principles, not just loaded questions.
Reading in various sources, many of those workers did get great performance reviews before the purges that fired them with a one-liner citing their lack of performance. Tell me how any employer doing this is acting with respect?
You were asked for a suggestion of a reasonably neutral media source and your reply was 'your mom' and a deflection to whether HN was a good forum for political discussion, along with your personal take on how left-wing it is.
Why don't you just answer the question instead: what do you consider a reaonably neutral news outlet covering these issues?
