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> This is hacker news. Hackers generally do not like authoritarianism.

Counterpoint: I've seen many posters here that are highly supportive of Trump and Elon. Not to mention all of the "hackers" enlisted in the DOGE army.



When people bandied about "hacking the planet" I have to wonder what they were picturing if not subverting bureaucracies to accelerate technocratic progress


The hacker ethos was never about installing an autocratic state




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