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I Quit Hacker News

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maukdaddy ◴[] No.1934517[source]
I agree with a lot of his points.

A TSA worker, to them, is not some guy without a college degree who is feeding his family, he’s an amoral pawn of an evil bureaucracy that exists solely to ensure that peaceful Americans have to get their junk touched by the back of someone’s hand before boarding a plane.

I got eviscerated for suggesting an alternative to berating the front-line TSA workers. To repeat, they are working hard, in a shitty job, to feed their families. They are following the rule they're given, and have no input to the process. Treating them like shit isn't the answer.

The ideology is often anti-corporate to the point of naiveté, and that’s nothing compared to how anti-government it is.

This seems to be a problem in any tech community. Maybe the larger percentage of Asperger-like folks?

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1. jdminhbg ◴[] No.1934559[source]
"I got eviscerated for suggesting an alternative to berating the front-line TSA workers."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1902057

Looks like you got eviscerated for bragging about not reading the article and calling the author a 'douche.' Also, you didn't suggest an alternative to berating TSA workers, you suggested that such alternatives existed, and only in an edit to the original post.

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2. akkartik ◴[] No.1934595[source]
But there is a bad attitude about TSA workers on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1854505, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1854446