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sho ◴[] No.16407784[source]
What is crazy about the the situation in SF is that even 5 or so years ago if you asked me what the "echo chamber" there was echoing I would have said libertarianism and some kind of techno-utopianism. The takeover by the proscriptive far-left has been astonishingly rapid, and it is absolutely real. I also know people who have left, and many more who absolutely keep their political and even philosophical views to themselves, especially after Damore.

It's been an extraordinarily fast takeover and I'd really like to know exactly what happened those 5 or so years ago to precipitate this seismic shift.

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wz1000 ◴[] No.16408051[source]
> The takeover by the proscriptive far-left

Americans have a very weird conception of what "far-left" means. Liberal feel good minority appeasement by billion dollar multinational corporations is as far from "far-left" as you can get.

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1. archagon ◴[] No.16408626[source]
Just people arguing in bad faith, I think.
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2. sho ◴[] No.16408669[source]
I hope that I demonstrate through my polite and hopefully-constructive replies that I am in fact arguing in good faith.

Once we abandon that assumption then all hope is lost.

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3. anigbrowl ◴[] No.16409219[source]
http://wondermark.com/1k62/