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taerictoday at 4:33 PM1 replyview on HN

I could similarly ask what happened to journalists? Or the politician that cared about their stated principals.

The reality isn't even that they went away, necessarily. Or that it was all a lie. There were always exceptions and it always took some level of good faith between our different institutions to keep them working well. At some point, that good faith interaction got hijacked and it has quickly spread as a rot to all things.


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tennfowntoday at 4:42 PM

> I could similarly ask what happened to journalists? Or the politician that cared about their stated principals.

It’s all the same. What happened is that principals became a liability and lying became a virtue.

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