The Alt-Right Playbook: I Hate Mondays
Why Hacker News recommends it
Referenced to describe an argument style that rejects incremental improvements, and in discussions of differing liberal and conservative views of society.
What it is
An Innuendo Studios Alt-Right Playbook episode about a rhetorical tactic of dismissing partial fixes to problems. It frames this as a style of argument that treats flaws as unfixable facts of life.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2021 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Recommends DoctorOW · 2021-07 · on “Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over his rare Twitter handle”
Sure, but reducing bad things is helpful even if it isn't 100%. There's an interesting video essay on this exact style of argument, if you're interested. [this video]
Cites chriswarbo · 2021-03 · on “GitHub, fuck your name change”
> reread their comment, apply context, it should be apparent. I did. It was not apparent; hence why I asked. > Why do you think Trump has anything to do with it? If we're still talking about "it" being a significant fraction of the US public being distrustful of the election process/results, then Trump's main relevance is the combination of: - His holding of the most powerful office in the world for four years - His direct attacks on the election process/results, e.g. [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] - The attacks on the election process/results by other Repulican politicians, either using Trump's example to seize or cling-to power, or to curry Trump's favour, or to avoid Tru
Cites Defletter · 2025-06 · on “What explains the liberal-conservative happiness gap?”
I think the issue ultimately comes down to what Ian Danskin described, paraphrased: that liberals see the faults in society as things that can be fixed, whereas conservatives see those faults as facts of life (reference: [this video] ). Wouldn't you also be less happy if you viewed society's faults as fixable, where you rally, vote, and protest for them to be fixed, and yet they almost never are?