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sejje • today at 7:03 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

So what? Who cares what you and a bunch of regular people are tired of?

That doesn't mean you get to take over private companies and start telling them where to spend their money.

This isn't about sympathy for one, or even all of these companies. I hate more than one of them myself, and wish for their demise.

But I like America, freedom, capitalism.


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ToucanLoucan • today at 7:29 PM

> So what? Who cares what you and a bunch of regular people are tired of?

Anyone in a position of power who doesn't want to end up killed? Like I'm not advocating for violence here, I'm just saying the list of political figures who "didn't care what regular people thought" and the list of political figures who were then subsequently murdered in public acts of political violence are a venn diagram that's practically a circle.

> That doesn't mean you get to take over private companies and start telling them where to spend their money.

I didn't advocate anything like that.

> But I like America, freedom, capitalism.

And I like people being able to live a good life, which Capitalism and lately America itself seem to be opposed to. Do you have an actual counterpoint to make or just more chest-beating?

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