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Orange site censoring posts left and right as US descends further into fascism (news.ycombinator.com)

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The tech bro hive mind on HN is furiously flagging (i.e., voting into invisibility) any submissions dealing with Tesla, Elon Musk or the kafkaesque US immigration detention situation. Add "/active" to the URL to see.

The site's moderator says it's fine because users are "tired of the repetition". Repetition of what exactly? Attempts to get through the censorship wall?

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The incuriosity, not just in how things are, but also in how things could be changed, and even if things are really necessary.

Just 'regels zijn regels' shit. (Sorry living in .nl is great, it just has a few big flaws. Like people shouting 'regels zijn regels', who never apply those rules to themselves as well (it also amuses me a bit that this will look a bit like german so it looks like I'm doing a Godwin to people just glancing over my post)).

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I suppose it'd be Regeln sind Regeln in German, though I don't know if that's an actual saying there or not.

I just started learning German recently* and so far it's a lovely language. I've already noticed how similar Dutch is just from browsing Wiktionary. Wiktionary is great because it has a declension / conjugation chart for every word I've tried -- a lot of dictionaries kind of assume you already know the grammar basics.

* As part of some in-progress US exit plans I'm not ready to talk about just yet because they might still fall through

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago

Wonder if it would be more 'die regeln sind die regeln', but my German is quite poor. I can understand it a little bit, but can't really speak it.