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My apologies, I would like to adopt dpwm's restatement: > They are like [the] Trump voters willing to throw their lot in with whomever tells them "it will be o
by killjoywashere 10y ago
My apologies, I would like to adopt dpwm's restatement:
> They are like [the] Trump voters willing to throw their lot in with whomever tells them "it will be okay", regardless of how unscrupulous and incompetent those promise-makers are.
- dang 10y agoOk, we've put that edit in. But please don't drop partisan tangents into HN comments. It's basically trolling, as you can see by the destructive effects on this thread (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14277404 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14277404) and, even with the edit, mars your otherwise fine comment.
- georgemcbay 10y agoThis is why reasonable, rational people are losing and will continue to keep losing. Because we accept calling Trump unscrupulous and incompetent as a partisan opinion when it is actually clearly a statement of fact based on ample amounts of evidence.
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- sheepmullet 10y agoThere are certain topics that destroy otherwise rational discussions. You know this. We all know this. So why bring it up in an unrelated thread? All it does is damage the quality of conversation.
- killjoywashere 10y agoOP here. In response to your question, I was seizing on a well-known phenomenon (voters responding to a hollow jobs promise) to make an illustrative comparison to my thesis, another situation that evokes similar behavior. To me, it was like being in a thread about trees and saying "Trees are green, you know, like money." The "like money" part, was just a comparison.