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AndrewKemendo • yesterday at 7:03 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Don’t forget the part where massive swaths of people who won’t risk anything at all, sneer at those that lost it all, because they aren’t perfectly aligned on some pet topic.


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e3dd • yesterday at 10:14 PM

I agree. Yes.

Btw I've already accepted my role as an assister. Haters come at me. See you on the other side!

I've long accepted that people by-on-large cannot be helped, western society has knowledge and understanding in abundance and yet... they lack self-control and self-respect. They need someone to instill it in them.

Peter Thiel's recent remarks on being evil is better than being bad captures this reality of life quite well.