Marc Andreessen Is a Traitor

84 pointsposted 14 hours ago
by colinprince
(liberalcurrents.com)

25 Comments

duxup

14 hours ago

The powerful tend to like the idea of less democratic governments / rigging the game (business) so they win. It's easy, they're not interested in competing in a market (ideas or business) if they can simply cuddle up to a despot and easily get theirs. So we see many line up to take their turn to bend the knee.

There's a weird idea among those on the right in the US where they see business people as somehow having some good insights as far business overall (the market) for the country. But really many of those who gain power are very much not interested in competing / open markets / competition, quite the opposite. They got theirs and for many the inclination is to close the door (market) behind them.

jeisc

20 minutes ago

he has been talking too much to AI and has become contaminated by AI and sycophants real and artificial

amazingman

4 hours ago

I still can't figure out if he was always a charlatan or something happened that turned him into one.

nielsbot

an hour ago

I theorize people who “make it” start circulating in super rich social circles where people believe whatever racist idiocy he’s spouting. They certainly no longer spend time with anyone living an average lifestyle.

k310

14 hours ago

I vividly recall a Christmas message from him, which I can't find in the archives, "Merry Fucking Christmas" having to do with his work on Mosaic browser and the lack of adulation shown him for having done so.

"Privilege," whether through one's birth, skin color, past achievements and so on, when it turns to exceptionalism, is the ruination of society here and in the world.

Truly good people use their gifts and achievements to lift others up.

Empty shells seek to cut others down.

"Libertarianism" seems nowadays to mean complete freedom for me, and not for you.

graphic (postimages.org)

https://i.postimg.cc/YqFrtzXg/Four-Libertarian-Freedoms-1.jp...

jasonthorsness

14 hours ago

I'm surprised he lumped in MIT; I thought they were more score/grade-based in their admissions which I did not expect Marc to oppose.

pseudo0

12 hours ago

MIT experimented with going test-optional for a couple years, that might be what he was referring to? They have since reinstated their SAT/ACT requirement.

ixtli

14 hours ago

> The communist millennials who entered the workforce in the 2010s sought to destroy every institution they touched

its so fulfilling to know someone as rich and powerful as Andreessen has acknowledged my hard work :)

msie

14 hours ago

So sad, all the money in the world and somehow he believes he's a victim.

taylodl

14 hours ago

What’s truly sad isn’t that he feels victimized - it’s that he’s using his wealth and influence to settle personal scores. That’s not leadership; it’s grievance-fueled ego. It’s moral immaturity dressed in power.

ixtli

14 hours ago

i find that reactionaries of all kinds put a lot of work into the mental gymanastics required to argue that somehow they are the real victims of injustice and it usually boils down to "people wont let me do whatever i want and also love me"

ddddang

14 hours ago

This was on the front page and just disappeared - wonder if this site censors stuff even though this was a well thought out and well written article.

tomhow

2 hours ago

No, we don't "censor" things. Users flagged it, and though we're never sure why each user flags anything, in this case it's likely because it doesn't fit with the site's guidelines and intended use, which is to feature content that "satisfies intellectual curiosity".

I explained more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44572593

jihadjihad

14 hours ago

It was marked [flagged] and [dead], I read it and vouched for it, possibly others did the same.

ddddang

14 hours ago

wonder if there bots that monitor this site and flag articles that are meant to be 'censored'.

ixtli

13 hours ago

i posted it again after it dissapeared the first time, then my post was flagged on and off. i think the mods are arguing lol

josefresco

12 hours ago

From what I understand it's not the editors, but rather the HN community (and possibly bots) who engage in this (egregious) flagging behavior. I happens almost daily for anything critical of the current US administration, including posts about Elon. Even posts from reputable news sources like Wired get flagged if they are even remotely critical of the tech oligarchs.

tomhow

2 hours ago

An article titled "[name] is a traitor" is not a good article for HN, no matter who it's about, as it's flamebait.

Flagging bots and users who flag inappropriately don't have much effect here. We review flagged posts, and for any account that is flagging inappropriately, their flags get switched off.

Almost every day the accusation is made that anything critical of the U.S. administration or tech celebrities is censored here. And the response is always the same. This stuff gets flagged, correctly, by users who want HN to stay true to its intended purpose, which is to discuss topics that engage intellectual curiosity.

The day-to-day posts criticizing the U.S. administration or tech celebrities normally don't fit this category, because they generally say the same thing as the version was posted the day before, and the comments in the discussions also say largely the same things.

Still, we frequently turn off flags on politics-related posts, or indeed posts about tech celebrities, when they contain "significant new information" and can sustain a discussion thread that contains new ideas in the comments.

The users who keep complaining that these stories are censored are users who seem to want HN to be something other than what it has always been intended to be.

123yawaworht456

10 hours ago

there is, almost at any given time, a designated thread with a two minutes hate about the musky man.

nielsbot

an hour ago

> the combination of DEI and immigration two forms of discrimination that systematically cut most of the children of the Trump voter base out of any realistic prospect of access to higher education and corporate America.

What a racist idiot he is. The main problem is the cost of college not “DEI”. He’s not even using the term correctly.