“absolutely not” is a bit strong. His military rearmament, massive borrowing, stealing money from and enslaving the Jews did bring the common German up quite fast compared to many other countries recovering from the Great Depression. Of course it wasn’t sustainable, but the illusion was there for the German people and that’s what really matters for politics…

Though what we have definitely rhymes with nazi, there is one massive difference that I think will be the downfall of it all. Hitler brought the German people out of the poverty, Trump is leading us into poverty.

Price, eh? Was he out bid?

Or just sloppy journalism/translation?

I always liked old slashdot. The meta moderation system applied to reddit like moderators would be an interesting experiment allowing the community to police the moderators…

Currently there is an interesting discussion of Georgism with 300+ comments. Not exactly a right wing subject…

But “want to hear” on HN is sometimes just intelligent or interesting comments, not necessarily bias confirming…

The most humorous was the long ad in front of the Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up video. They killed the Rick Roll…

They support him or are too scared to oppose him. Either way they should not be elected/re-elected…

Who? Until this faux brouhaha, I’d seen his name but had no idea what he streams about. I still don’t beyond he is some flavor of left wing? Centrist, progressive, radical? Have no idea…

SI for short, you know Sports Illustrated…wait what were we talking about?

It will run, the frame rate will just be a bit low as you have to manually plot each frame from the output, say a frame every hour or two…

Cute but totally fake…

On the one hand, Driscoll did have a meeting to discuss the current state of the army with Trump the week before he resigned. On the other hand a quick search of who this Dominic Michael Tripi is opened a deep and weird rabbit hole. I would take anything he tweets with a few grains if not a pound of salt…

Sounds like a lot of people will be full of shit. Literally instead of just metaphorically…

Of what, rust?

I thought it much more interesting than the more famous “Crash” movie…

It’s not a matter of privacy or safety. It’s a matter of how does this technology benefit me? So far, that’s none at all. I live in a place of low crime, so it’s ability to keep me safer is minor if at all. Police abuse it and the upper classes seem safe from it. I do not see any benefit in it’s current form. Lock it down behind court orders without general police/organizational access and maybe? But I’ll still vote against it…

Why? The forces behind MAGA and Trump have been part of most democracies their entire history. They percolate up every one in a while then disappear into the background noise until next time. McCarthyism looked like the end of the world as well just to disappear just as fast as it came about. Cults of personality rarely outlast the death or disgrace of the founder.

What do mean by majority? 51% is a hell of a lot different than 80%. I think much of MAGA is more populist than ideological. Some will disappear, some will follow the next populist to come a long and that populist could have different ideas that they latch on to. Compare the “tea party” of Ron Paul to the co-opted Tea Party that came later…

True of all democracies. Canada has it’s share of fruitcakes and could suffer a similar insanity and elect one…