This is lunacy @dang. I criticized a country for the policies it has pursued, not people. The implication here is that countries themselves are now infallible?
HN users are regularly (and justly) critical of China, North Korea and even America... are these people also facing reprimand? Or is just certain countries who get your protection?
>what you call a "globalist punching bag" is also affectionately called a melting pot.
Toronto is explicitly not a melting pot. Trudeau and others have been explicit in describing Canada (and Toronto) as being a mosaic of cultures, or a patchwork, or quilt, and not the melting pot that America touts itself to be.
Canada's migration policies are one facet of my labelling it a globalist punching bag, among many, but certainly not isolated to it and mainly due to the motivations behind it.
The rest of your post is literal memes and shallow accusations of racism and as such isn't worth addressing.
>This is something torontonians have gotten over ages ago.
Bad example. Canada is a globalist punching bag and their behaviour isn't indicative of a country that has grown but one that has merely submitted.
I lived in Toronto for a couple of years and even at that point most of the people I met who were born and bred there were hauling ass out of the city to places like Barrie, Burlington or other provinces entirely. What's left is a city full of people with little ties to the place and with little in common beyond being "fans" of manufactured "Canadian" MLSE teams and a love for consuming mainly American media, American brands and American social issues. It's a soulless husk of a city and one that should serve as an example to others of what not to let your home descend to.
>That's the biggest problem on being Canadian, it's hard to find something to bitch about. When you live in a nice country all your dramas become pathetic.
Google, by virtue of its sheer influence in the industry, is primarily responsible for the activist-driven grief that has shat itself all over the tech industry in recent years.
So fuck them. Watching the toxic crops they've planted and tended to go for their own creator's throats is nothing short of delightful.
>I don't agree that this is the fault of tech at all.
>The real culprit I believe, has been the incredible hysteria of the legacy media as it joined the social media spaces, and started their race to the bottom for clickbait and outrage porn. Covering inane tweets, and blowing them up to pretend that crackpot points-of-view have more weight and are more common than they truly are. Gotcha gonzo-journalism, that prides "getting them" (whichever group that may be) over informing, and in the process dehumanising large swathes of people for clicks.
Everything you've outlined above is entirely the result of technology and the incentive structures that have been pursued in its "advancement".
My only hope is that the rest of the Western world takes note from observing the dissolution and atomization of US society at the hands of identity politics and makes a firm choice to not let their own societies traverse the same path.
I, sadly, do not see how America comes out of this together, embracing a "live and let live" type attitude, in a world where identity politics does not continue to dominate the narrative, when a large bulk of the mainstream has stoked, embraced and celebrated a loosely constructed contextually and historically ignorant hierarchy and narrative of the "oppressed" and of the "oppressors". Where one half of the populace believes the nation itself to be fundamentally good , worthwhile or indeed "the best", and the other believes it to be rotten to the core not just now but since its very beginning. Where one half believes that the 2020 election was genuinely stolen from them by socialists and communists, and the other genuinely believes they've just defeated something in line with Adolf Hitler, who himself stole the 2016 election thanks to Russians with a couple million of FB ad spend.
> Can we just go ten years back where everything was more spontaneous and candid?
No. That life is sadly dead and gone, the damage of politics / identity politics as most dominant identity, bias enforcing algorithms and creepy behavioural psychology manipulation as “user experience” has not just corrupted the internet permanently but likely how we see and deal with one another online also.
Who could have foreseen that choosing to contribute to some of the most, if not the most, intentionally polarizing and toxic technology the world has ever seen may have consequences?
Obviously physical violence in reaction to non-physical action(s) is completely uncalled for. People shouldn’t be afraid to work for Google, Facebook and Twitter for fear of physical retribution. They should be utterly ashamed and embarrassed to though.
HN users are regularly (and justly) critical of China, North Korea and even America... are these people also facing reprimand? Or is just certain countries who get your protection?