NobodyInteresting's Quick takes

Thank you for the clarification, first off you pegged me as a bilingual, I guess it's a good wild guess when I hate on westerners and diversity or lack there of.

I'll make a post about my combative tone, I guess our backgrounds are different, for me being combative is good, it's similar to passionate, it's simply who I am at this point. Maybe not the best for casual conversations and civil discussions.

Although I would speculate that it would be harder for a Bryn Mawr graduate to successfully break into EA now than it would have been when EA was very, very young. So founding-era evidence may not be much evidence relating to OP's claim that "EA organizations have become a gentrified refined versions of what they wanted to be." (emphasis mine).

Of course I mean that, great that is one example, but most of the bigger EA organizations are packed with western talent, I will let go off of the 10 top schools point. Have you seen anyone that graduated at Addis Ababa or Trinidad or Cluj, I have not, I have interacted with primarily EU-western oriented people, the closest to diversity is that one random Ethiopian intern.

My point was, easterners are either discriminated against or EA is such an echo-chamber that you unconsciously discriminate against easterners.

Your opening line seems to be trying to mimic the tone of mocking someone obnoxiously. Then you follow-up with an exaggerated telling of events. Then another exaggerated comparison. 

People don't like angry political comments here, they prefer a dispassionate tone. They also generally don't like stuff that sounds like "left-wing activist", even though most people here don't identify as "right-wing" but as left/centre-left/centre/libertarian. Not to mention that whilst most people here are not pro-Trump, probably a small minority are, and they can strong downvote if they want to, and if you get no upvotes, that means low Karma even if most people aren't bothered by what you said. Also, I think the Musk Nazi salute thing reads as "silly media bullshit" even to a lot of people who don't like Trump, because they don't think Musk is a "real fascist"*. Musk probably tends to get (too much of) the benefit of the doubt round here, because he shares a lot of preoccupations with the futurist, existential risk wing of EA, and because he is idolized in Silicon Valley as a great man (something that predates his public turn to the far-right.) 

*(I think Musk is a real fascist, but I still kind of feel like that, because I don't think he was actually signaling that he secretly loves Hitler, he was just trying to offend for shits and giggles. Very obnoxious, but not necessarily a sign that he is secretly working towards some sort of Nazi-style regime behind the scenes.)  

Multiple reasons.

1. Your style of writing doesn't meet the standards of this forum. It's vague and memey. I'm inclined not to be that bothered but it definitely is outside of the expected decorum of the forum. 

2. You aren't adding much to the conversation here, this is a pretty liberal forum and we already know Trump acts like a buffon and Elon is an anti-woke troll who has recently supported the AfD (I generally think people here are too quick to downvote things that feel low-effort, it's probably directionally better if people spew a bit more garbage if that would generate more discussion and cause people to second-guess commenting less - and second I don't think it's so irrelevant that he did this although their are lots of other reasons to be concerned that are more concrete).

3. People here are on net not super involved in politics and might feel offended that you imply it is important since it hurts their ego, and since you write in a style that is not within the accepted standards it's easy for them to express their discontent with your writing style even if the impetus to downvote is partially that they think you are being reactionary and disagreeing with their priors. 

But yea I'd recommend writing something like ~ "The trump inauguration festivities have caused me to update towards thinking American politics is a more important cause area because x". It still probably won't be received particularly well here without being more quantitative/fleshing it out more but you won't get 26 downvotes.