> these headlines and threads look like fud and overreaction from particular groups
No they don't. If they look like FUD or overreaction to you, that may be because sites like this have been suppressing discussion, leaving you lacking vital context.
Feel free to prove me wrong with specifics though, if you like.
> all in a very recognizable format
No they aren't. Those stories are from a wide variety of media, most of it well established (for what that's worth).
Again - if you can say what that 'recognizable format' is instead of being vague than I'll concede the point.
> Adding tax conspiracy on top of it doesn’t make it look better.
It's technically a conspiracy, yes - but it's not a theory. It's their stated goal [0, 1], from before the election [2].
And that money is coming from the middle class and the poor; from massive cuts to Medicaid and social services, and all sorts of lifeline programs.
You ought to know this stuff; it's important. Trivializing it as 'conspiracy' is harmful. This all very much affects the tech and entrepreneur community, as we have been complicit in it for one thing and are best placed to understand it for another. And we're going to be scapegoated when shit continues to hit the fan, harder and harder.
Recognition is subjective, so idk what to say here. You want more of this, forum wants less. I guess there's enough places to discuss it. Maybe people don't want this "vital context" here. It's not that a forum was sort of a closed city, people visit other places freely. And if they do not, they probably value how it works here.
I only visited a few links in the past weeks, but most of them shared that thing where they establish a very shaky background and then just switch to pushing their thick angsts and then users comment on conspiracies. E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43022307 I'm not trying to convince you, just explaining what I see.
I don't think that's true, and I pointed out why above. Threads about this stuff get flagged, but have a lot of upvotes and discussion. So again, you are being given a very filtered impression of what the majority here want to see.
We could find out for sure, if dang permitted one discussion on this to survive without being flagged. He refused to do that.
>> You ought to know this stuff; it's important.
> I don't think so.
If you don't think a 4.5 trillion dollar transfer from medicaid and social programs to tech bro's pockets is important, but it is important that stories about this are flagged before you have to look at them, then Idk what to tell you. That's definitely not the HN I want to see, and I'm happy to risk being banned to say so.
Btw, a $4.5tn wealth transfer works out to over $13k from every man woman and child in the US. You will be feeling this, sooner rather than later.
No they don't. If they look like FUD or overreaction to you, that may be because sites like this have been suppressing discussion, leaving you lacking vital context.
Feel free to prove me wrong with specifics though, if you like.
> all in a very recognizable format
No they aren't. Those stories are from a wide variety of media, most of it well established (for what that's worth).
Again - if you can say what that 'recognizable format' is instead of being vague than I'll concede the point.
> Adding tax conspiracy on top of it doesn’t make it look better.
It's technically a conspiracy, yes - but it's not a theory. It's their stated goal [0, 1], from before the election [2].
And that money is coming from the middle class and the poor; from massive cuts to Medicaid and social services, and all sorts of lifeline programs.
You ought to know this stuff; it's important. Trivializing it as 'conspiracy' is harmful. This all very much affects the tech and entrepreneur community, as we have been complicit in it for one thing and are best placed to understand it for another. And we're going to be scapegoated when shit continues to hit the fan, harder and harder.
0 - https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-01-10/trump-tax...
1 - https://apnews.com/article/house-republicans-budget-blueprin...
2 - https://www.factcheck.org/2024/12/trumps-agenda-taxes/