What David Heinemeier Hansson thinks about war
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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4 dated positions, 2022 to 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what David Heinemeier Hansson has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsAmerica is simply a vastly richer country, and that matters when it comes to everything from commercial dominance to military power
↗Europe is weak and delusional (but not doomed)world.hey.com
- 10 months earlier
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Their wordsDecades of underfunding the European military has lead us here
- 3 years earlier
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Their wordsThe Russian invasion of Ukraine is at once reaffirming all the ills of social media and showing its utterly unique capacity to give a direct voice to anyone around the world
↗The other side of social mediaworld.hey.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThe rally behind shutting Russia out of SWIFT, Germany approving both direct delivery of weapons and a dramatic increase in military spending going forward, the joint closing of the air space, and other new sanctions seemingly dropping every hour, does feel like it owes its urgency to the depth of public support the Ukrainian media campaign is fast activating
↗The other side of social mediaworld.hey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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