Possibly the worst defense yet of Garry Tan’s tweeting of death threats towards San Francisco’s elected legislature. In yet more evidence for my “HN is a Nazi bar” thesis, this take is from an otherwise-respected cryptographer and security researcher. Choice quote:
sorry, but 2Pac is now dad music, I don’t make the rules
Best sneer so far is this comment, which links to this Key & Peele sketch about violent rap lyrics in the context of gang violence.
The post was removed and all of the top comments are about how fucked up it was to tweet that. HN is nazi bar confirmed?
Standard HN practice. See here for a previous discussion about the phenomenon.
Aaaand the top comment shares the exact same sentiment I do 🤷
you’ll never guess what happened to the top commenter’s posting privileges when they brought that kneejerk “uhh it’s flagged now what’s the problem” shit here, as if the orange site’s constant attempts to bury fash shit like this by abusing flagging (an anti-spam measure) has any impact on us being able to sneer at it, especially when a supposedly respected account like tptacek goes fucking mask off
Look it is no problem the nazis are in this bar, every time they shout nazi shit we just turn up the music louder. Any posters they put up we put into places with bad lighting and a ‘we disagree with this’ sign. I don’t get why you filthy techtake sneerclubbers who are to blame to for covid [this is not an insult it is a reference!] keep calling us a nazi bar.
It wasn’t removed, just flagged to below the default view threshold. 'tptacek really lost me a lot of respect in that comment
Edit weirdly this is the second time in as many weeks I’ve encountered the term “die slowly, motherfucker”. The first was in the context of a man who obsessively built the perfect stereo and room to listen to it in, enlisting his kids in the labor. His eldest son finally snapped and uttered the words. They remained estranged until the man’s death.
I have not heard the original song.