The US Postal Service

[ChefBourgeoisie]

Today on Hackernews, I experienced something very strange. There was a circlejerk thread praising the United States Postal Service, and none of them appeared aware that they were circlejerking, or that they knew why they were so pro-mail. No arguments could sway them... pointing out how they didn't use this service to receive any real mail, or to send any real mail, did not convince them. Pointing out how they were paying the cost of discarding 100+ pounds of junk mail per year did not convince them. Pointing out how it was an invasion of their privacy (usually something they fetishize) did not convince them. Documented quotes from former US Postmaster generals about how american citizens were not their customers (that the 400 direct mail advertisers were) did not convince them. Pointing out how it was the environmentally sound option did not convince them. That it was a Chinese subsidy for Temu and Aliexpress (they don't have to pay the full, fair rate to ship their products here) did not convince them.

It was bizarre. They're a big faggoty echo chamber, sure, but it wasn't clear to me exactly what is going on here... usually the faggotry will confine itself to some well-known and well-understood leftoid causes. We're well past the "Biden only won with mail-in votes" leftoid cocksucking of the US mail system, that's been 4 years and change. What gives? Am I just on my own here? Please provide insight.

 

[Cybertonia]

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17 de Feb, 2023

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Most of the users on orange reddit are cows in their own right.

 

[VIPPER?]

Generally people like mail services that are cheap, free, or at least included in the cost of other services

 

[David Brown]

Niggas out here alogging the USPS

 

[Dammit Mandrake!]

The USPS is the most prolific, successful spy agency in history. Towns that don't have grocery stores and bars still have a post office.

 

[big pauper]

Tema 'Hacker News'

17 de Feb, 2023

Hacker News, originally Startup News, is ostensibly a forum for intelligent programmers to discuss interesting topics, but is used mostly by idiots who can't program well or at all for discussing corporate press releases. The forum exists to advertise its sponsor, Y Combinator, a startup accelerator named after a construct from the Lambda Calculus; the basic idea behind venture capitalism is to give a lot of money to a lot of businesses which need it, so that one or two can gain a global monopoly and pay more than enough to make up for the otherwise massive losses. This is...

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Most of the users on orange reddit are cows in their own right.

the hacker community is extremely hyper-liberal which is kind of interesting because you would think it would more overlap with hardcare right-wing self-sufficiency circles but the entire label of "hacker" is the kind of self-agrrandizing narrative-forming that liberals like to do about everything. The people who mess with 3d printers probably don't call themselves "hackers" even though practically speaking they're doing the exact same things with the same tools.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

Niggas out here alogging the USPS

Postmaster General is the coolest government title though.

 

[Purple Francis]

Are people really trying to politicize the fucking mail

 

[WelperHelper99]

Josh loves the USPS. Those niggas deliver the mail through rain or snow. They my homies.

 

[Mukhrani]

Every town, even very small ones, has a post office, so everyone in a small town knows someone who works for a post office and usually likes them. A decent number of people talk to the mailman/maillady from time to time, at least in rural areas. It's very cheap to mail letters or invitations. There's really no reason for normies to hate the mail and lots of reasons to either like or be ambivalent about it. And if some sperg online is flipping out about how the mail is evil most people just think of their aunt who sorts mail or the mailman who delivers their mail and then dismiss the person who is sperging out about the mail.