Other countries (including the ones mentioned above) have Costcos. Many of those stores are more impressive than in the US.

Strange how this keeps happening to Meta:

"Meta employees said Lula's accounts were hindered during Brazil election, Folha reports" (https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/meta-employees-said-l...)

  Meta employees acknowledged in internal communications that the Instagram accounts of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were hindered by restrictions during the country's election, newspaper Folha de S.Paulo reported on Friday, citing messages it reviewed.

  The messages also acknowledged the platform recommended the profile of challenger Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, as well as his WhatsApp channel, according to the report.

  Meta said the technical issues cited in the report were already public and the conversations it referenced related solely to the severity of the issues, not political interference. "Any suggestion that Meta favors one side is false," it added in a statement

Remember: the onus is always on you to prove that you're one of the "good ones" by coddling them.

The essay makes a token gesture toward this ("privilege and power dynamics play a complex and unavoidable role"), but ultimately Marco, who is a rich straight white male unaffected by any meaningful or existential prejudice, is willing to overlook those views (which do not impact him) as things that do not matter.

I would shocked if it was, Accidental Tech Podcast is not a political show but they don't hide the fact that all three hosts are very liberal.

Assume for the moment that he did not have DHH in mind, and the timing of the post is coincidental.

Is there some way of reading the moral of his story such that it is not defending projects and people like Omarchy/DHH against criticism?

Which would be a strange defense. DHH is not someone who keeps his political views to himself.

The crux of this post is that even publicly stated political views like DHH's shouldn't matter.

"If I learn today that my neighbors have political views that my “side” considers unacceptable and unforgivable, [...] Should I be condemned for not publicly condemning them myself? [...] I don’t want to associate with any community that would insist on either of those. [...]

"The town coffee shop was just a coffee shop. We weren’t publicly shamed for going there because one of the owners was an ass."

That’s how HN works, I had that multiple times over the years with my own submissions. Sometimes it gets picked up quickly, sometimes not. A post can also down rank very, very fast. It depends a lot on the level of engagement and the type of engagement

How fast the upvote happened?

Follow the money.