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Yeul12/10/20241 replyview on HN

Government bad rich people good is an American belief that I will never understand.

For all the faults the FBI has I don't think Pinkerton's paid by Musk are a good alternative.


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0xBDB12/16/2024

The actual American belief is generally "[Most] Rich people bad government worse".

The Pinkertons were breaking strikes launched by Americans, after all. May Day is a commemoration of an event that took place in Chicago. The reaction to the cold-blooded murder of an insurance executive on a public street is pretty characteristically American, in my view. We just don't like power.