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Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon Valley ‘Echo Chamber’

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370 points sillypuddy | 2 comments | 18 Feb 18 16:50 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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sho ◴[18 Feb 18 19:32 UTC] 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 ◴[18 Feb 18 20:01 UTC] 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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refurb ◴[18 Feb 18 21:05 UTC] No.16408638[source]▶
Political views are relative.

I could say that there are no hard-right parties in Europe (with mainstream ideals - I'm ignoring the fascist parties).

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1. anigbrowl ◴[18 Feb 18 22:34 UTC] No.16409227[source]▶
Fn in France and AfD in Germany are firmly right, and it seems perverse to ignore fascist parties like Jobbik and others considering their relative electoral success, even if you believe that to be a flash in the pan. I spend a good deal of time worrying about this international drift.
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2. refurb ◴[18 Feb 18 23:04 UTC] No.16409408[source]▶
How right are the non-fascist parties relative to the right in the US? That was my point.

For example, is there any right wing party advocating eliminating universal healthcare?