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Kind of an odd move to pepper the HN thread on Dick Cheney’s death with non-sequitur comments about “the left”


Agreed. Besides, "left" and "right" are particularly meaningless in this context.

Cheney spent his last years being openly embraced by the same people who spent the last few decades playing the part of opposition.


The OP I responded to specifically mentioned the difference responses to the deaths of well known people. Mentioning Castro and comparing to Cheney.


Current right wing propaganda utilizes a strategy of "flood the zone", based on the "Russian firehose" approach.

This means injecting all talking points all of the time, and disrupting any criticism anywhere.

LLMs make this easier and more effective, and HN is absolutely, 100% owned by bots. And in like a literal sense, given who YCombinator funds and is headed by.


couple of points. 1. I'm not a bot. I'm just politically right, we are around, we just hide because its still career suicide in tech. I know you don't see the right as human but most of us are people just like you, not LLMs

2. I just like to chat on HN, there is no right wing mass organized process for people to chat with others, or at least none that I am a part of. To think that everyone you disagree with must be a bot or part of a conspiracy is both dehumanizing and just... an odd way to see the world.

3. The OP I responded to specifically mentioned the difference responses to the deaths of well known people. Mentioning Castro and comparing to Cheney. That was the context of my response, not sure how this has now veered into organized conspiracy theories




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