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You see this often here in the HN comment section, on a variety of topics: "For-profit industry did [wrongdoing], and the government [went along with it | was fooled | didn't act fast enough], therefore I don't trust the government!" They're always silent on corporate power. It's odd reasoning to say the least.

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And totally counterproductive, given the underlying insinuation that scaling back the government would solve the problem, when in reality it just hands more power over to corporations to do even more [wrongdoing].

> given the underlying insinuation that scaling back the government would solve the problem

This is almost never actually stated in comments on HN. This is statement is just projection and/or inventing hypothetical strawman positions.

The fact that the discussion tends to lead this way is a good reason to treat phrases like "You see this often here in the HN comment section" with suspicion.

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