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Alex Pareene
Personal blog · theap.substack.compoliticsculture
Alex Pareene's personal blog at theap.substack.com covers politics and culture. Since 2021, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Losing a Street Fight to Elon Musk”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on police seizing more money from people than burglars do. The comment provided argues that police do what is easy and are not required to protect and serve.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A non-blog about politics, media, and treating personal grudges as ideological conflicts.
Most-linked posts?
- Losing a Street Fight to Elon Musk2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-11
What Hacker News says?
That's a hilarious and counterfactual thing to assert on a thread noting that cops literally steal more money from people than criminals do . Cops do what is easy, by and large. The overriding motivations in the job do not align with the values that the public would actually WANT from a police force. They are not required to "protect and serve," and have actually argued in court (and won!) that they are not required…
Comment linking /p/what-do-cops-do
on “Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do”Submitted I saw a cool truck today as a story · 472 points
HN discussionSubmitted Losing a Street Fight to Elon Musk as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Abolish States as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted VP of Comms for the Newsletter Company as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Losing a Street Fight to Elon Musk as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Institutionalist's Dilemma as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
