Ugh, some of the comments under the article are painfully dumb.
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2025
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Those are part of the cyber attack
Some maybe, but the sloppiness makes me think they are the result. People obviously fall for this shit or we wouldn't have Elon for President.
See the HN comments as well if you don't mind facepalming repeatedly:
We need a national registry of tech bros.
Just scrape the cookies at HN...
There are at least twelve commenters who aren't a total lost cause
Was HN always so...libertarian-coded? Or are my blinders just coming off now?
It's always been generally anti-authoritarian, which shares a lot of overlap with libertarians. Now you're seeing the distinction become clear between who's anti-authoritarian because they realize that nobody should have a boot stamping on their face, and simps that are fine with it as long as they're wearing the boot.
The libertarian movement was originally left wing and was co-opted by anarcho-capitalists. The original meaning was very anti-authoritarian, but not the one adopted by the Libertarian party. Real libertarians see one of the government's primary purposes is populist opposition to financial dominance by oligarchs. Libertarians see any government action as definitionally oppressive and blindly pays homage to oligarchs and the "free market".
It's "Libertarian" not "libertarian". The Libertarian party stole the name and applied it to anarcho-capitalist fascism which is the exact opposite of libertarianism. As a real libertarian, the double-speak really gets under my skin.
But yes, hacker culture was a prime target of the deceptive brand confusion and it worked perfectly. Corporations have gone from being cyberpunk villains to heros fighting "government overreach".