[addandsubtract]

This is only a surprise to HN, because all the other threads about the corrupt US regime have been flagged before. I guess now is a good time as any to start paying attention. Who would've thought that attention is all you need?

[caaqil]

I like to think that you wrote this whole comment to sneak the paper title instead of it being an apt pun/nod.

[therobots927]

I think you’re making a major unspoken assumption which is that all of the downvotes / flags are from real users. HN has no form of identity verification and is functionally equivalent to 4chan. Theres no telling how many bot farms exist on here with the sole purpose of manipulating discourse to be favorable to the current US administration and also Israel.

[stinkbeetle]

When you say "HN", do you mean you? Who else was surprised? The place is full of people constantly commenting about how bad the US is, how corrupt the government is, how terrible CEOs (particularly Altman) are, late stage capitalism, etc., etc.

[abustamam]

They've been around forever, even before Trump's first administration. But a broken clock is right twice a day.

Those people also get down voted to oblivion. Their text is gray. I can't read it unless I click the timestamp.

Clearly, HN doesn't want us to listen to them.

Yes, sometimes they can be combative and inflammatory. But even the ones that are otherwise reasonable get down voted because how dare we insult capitalism and billionaires?

[spiderfarmer]

I’m one of those criticasters and I’m getting downvoted constantly. I don’t care about the downvotes. I do care about western countries slipping into fascism just because people are so proud to admit they voted for a stupid clown.

[LoganDark]

You know those people have existed since practically forever, right? You learn to tune it out and then you never notice if they start being less wrong.