The media is generally fairly complacent about it - the drama is good ratings material. And you can't link angry blue sky posts or substacks really.
Occasionally someone does comment about it and get flagged, ofc? and this article is part of the news about it, just like the discussion of the WB buy out and how paramount was going to offer trump control of a news channel for the same one or etc
I wonder if this is a media bubble thing, because basically all I see online is the opposite. The difference between the screaming outrage there and the complete absence of news reporting it tends to get pretty freaky.
I mean, we've got 20 point swings in special elections and mass protests ranging from large to huge all over the place and you'd barely know if you were looking at the evening news.
Yeah, the Reddit front page (not logged in) is always 50% full of politics and raging about how much this admin sucks. Yet in real life for 99% of people it's business as usual, no observable change, you'd have no idea anything was going on.
I wonder if the raging about it online has a cooling effect that makes people less likely to take irl action. Even if you do enter the left media bubble, you can't help but think that they've accomplished absolutely nothing. The "protests" (more like "100 people had a picnic in front of the capital") were pretty pathetic.
That's part of what I mean, actually. You go downtown here on the last big weekend they organized, and its 10 blocks of shouting people in a small/mid sized city, media representation at the local level was good - there is still a newspaper here - on the evening news it was a 10 second clip, and outside of that - "personalities" talking about the whole event nationally and a 30 second spot on Seattle and New York?
Like, compare some pictures of these protests to the 4 guys with a sign locally during Iraq?
Political discussions have always been frowned upon in HN. Any discussion just leads to whataboutism. What’s the point?
On the other hand, this is what a large part of the country has always been about. The establishment has just been able to keep the worse parts of it down and do everything through dog whistles instead of outright racism.
I’ve seen people afraid to talk about politics for financial reasons. Everything from Micheal Jordan’s “Republicans buy shoes too” to James Thompson of Stratechery who euphemizes that Trump is “transactional” instead of just outright saying “he openly accepts bribes from companies” - referencing the $15 million Paramount gave him directly for the merger to go through.
> Even here on Hacker News. It's just not discussed. US citizens are either championing MAGA or just acting like everything is normal or they're disinterested.
That is BS. Hacker News is full of it. My FB feed is full of it. The US media I see is full of it. Anything but silence.
> Even here on Hacker News. It's just not discussed. US citizens are either championing MAGA or just acting like everything is normal or they're disinterested.
Or their accounts were banned for being too contrarian, or they were systematically downvoted into invisibility.
HN won't even let me comment on the parent claim that US citizens are taking the situation passively. Which is horribly untrue. But the limit is a great example of a platform's rules (whether intentional or not) causing an important public perception.
