They won't forget Musk's fascist salutes either. If anything, Musk's salutes have been more public, have done more brand damage, and have revealed worse character.
Musk and Zuckerberg are showing you who and what they are.
You may be right that people will remember that, and yes that's an interesting data point to compare it with.
I was talking about something else though. My claim is that the HN baseline will return to the status quo ante, just as it has after past political tsunamis, and that when it does, the current fever for every political story to be on the frontpage will fade into oblivion. I may be wrong about that, but we will have to wait to find out.
> showing you who and what they are. Pay attention.
That's a trope, indeed already a cliché, of internet political arguments. It would be in your interest to avoid those because although on a surface level they intensify a comment, at a deeper level they make it less persuasive (to the persuadable reader). I know you didn't ask for commenting advice and normally I wouldn't go there, but HN's guidelines specifically ask commenters to omit internet tropes: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
> I may be wrong about that, but we will have to wait to find out.
You are wrong.
> That's a trope, indeed already a cliché
Dude, that you think you might be right demonstrates that you haven't been paying attention.
Musk doesn't just have form, he's going for the record.
There will be a stink around Y Combinator's AI Startup School event. Musk will bring the stink with him.
And the source of that stink may be as simple as attendees having family members sacked by DOGE. Or it might be because he's of such weak character that he lies about being good at video games. Or perhaps it will be America's sell out of Ukraine, something Musk has advocated for:
They won't forget Musk's fascist salutes either. If anything, Musk's salutes have been more public, have done more brand damage, and have revealed worse character.
Musk and Zuckerberg are showing you who and what they are.
Pay attention.