> This thread is a perfect example of why HN has a "no politics" guideline

From a quick perusal, your account appears to only comment on politics.

isn’t that how we got here though? Everyone in silicon valley was so busy making sure they were open minded, steelmanning, and not treating politics like a sport that no one in the silicon valley halls of power pointed out that the emperor has no clothes and now we have a (sorry woke police) shrieking retard president leading us through the singularity.

>you've completely missed that the teams' owners have the same plans and go to dinner parties together.

The "both sides are the same" argument was tiring in 2024, disingenuous in 2025, and outright tonedeaf in 2026. We have hundreds of examples now of how no: this is not normal behavior. Just because some billionaires are exploiting the behavior doesn't mean the actions, means, nor ends are the same.

Likewise, trying to dismiss speech you do not like over certain words or people being involved says a lot more about your ability to live up to your own words.If the first sentence wasn't there I'd bet that you'd be apathetic to it at best, but the moment a certain word is there its suddenly "shallow,uninformed bickering" despite it being on topic for an article specifically about a company practicing rent-seeking by pushing for nurses to provide worse service.

Just because there are clowns in the White House doesn't mean we still can't be adults. Sometimes being an adult means acknowledging the elephant in the room.

>This thread is a perfect example of why HN has a "no politics" guideline.

It does not. It has a discouragement from posting small updates as you'd see on 24/7 news. Be it politics, sports, pop culture, or crime. This story is about technology being used for surveillance and shaping employee behavior around it. If you want to pretend this isn't political and suddenly not an interesting new phenomenon... well, you do you. People will discuss what they find interesting, though.