Yeah. That seems about right for techbros. Hacker News is a fucking cesspool. Imagine drawing an equals sign between Hitler and Stalin, or Mussolini and Castro. And of course “well Bush isn’t that bad 'cause he only went after other countries” rhetoric (spoiler alert: Bush did not, in fact, only go after other countries).

cocoricamo 14 hours ago | root | parent | next [–]

It was a comment on the irony of their profile pictures.

It shouldn’t be acceptable to glorify neither of: Hitler, Franco, Mussolini, Mao, Stalin, Fidel, Guevara, Hussein, Pinochet, Ceaucescu, Gaddafi, etc.

My point is that authoritarian murderers are authoritarian murderers no matter their political affiliation and should not be glorified. You can be against one extreme without supporting the other.

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moshin 4 hours ago | root | parent | next [–]

you forgot to include Bush.

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cocoricamo 59 minutes ago | root | parent | next [–]

Too many people to list.

Although I’d say the tag kind of fits, but Bush is in another category. All the people I mentioned had in common the persecution, imprisonment and execution of their own people at a massive level and maintained power by force. Bush went after other countries and was voted out in the end.

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