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Jamie Paul
Personal blog · americandreaming.substack.compoliticsculture
Jamie Paul writes American Dreaming, a personal blog at americandreaming.substack.com about politics and culture. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 40 times, most often “For Elon Musk, Free Speech Is a Catchphrase, Not a Principle”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack as a source on Wikipedia's editing, claiming a coordinated pro-Hamas campaign and editor bans. One commenter also cites it on workplace politics and the 'Great Awokening'.
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Politics, culture, and commentary from an outside the box, philosophically liberal perspective.
Most-linked posts?
- For Elon Musk, Free Speech Is a Catchphrase, Not a Principle2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-17
What Hacker News says?
Wikipedia not evidence but result of coordinated pro-Hamas campaign, 8 editors banned by them https://americandreaming.substack.com/p/wikipedias-islamist-...
Comment linking /p/wikipedias-islamist-vandals
on “Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route”Submitted College Was the Biggest Mistake of My Life as a story · 79 points
HN discussionPretty much this. For those of us who had to live through the Great Awokening in places like San Francisco, the workplace became a place to be questioned and re-educated in your political and moral beliefs, unless you already had the correct opinion. Except, even if you did, you could always be just a little purer. You could show off to your coworkers how you were a better ally than them, maybe they would be as good…
Comment linking /p/memory-hole-archive-workplace-revolutionaries
on “Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise”Submitted The Depopulation Bomb Isn't Ticking, It's Overblown as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted "We live and we die. We control nothing beyond that." as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted For Elon Musk, Free Speech Is a Catchphrase, Not a Principle as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted For Elon Musk, Free Speech Is a Catchphrase, Not a Principle as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Transhumanism and Its Silly Critics as a story · 9 points
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