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>And that's how solidarity dies. you've gotta be one of the most of out touch people i've ever seen express their out of touch opinions. what shows of solidari

by ice109 9y ago

>And that's how solidarity dies. you've gotta be one of the most of out touch people i've ever seen express their out of touch opinions. what shows of solidarity have you made? have you ever even been to the poor part of town? if you live in nyc message me and i'll gladly take you on a tour where you can stand with your brethren. >With enough will and prudent planning you can make a dollar a day stretch much further than you could imagine. go ahead: plan it out for me since my imagination is so poor.

korrachs 9y ago
Here we have exhibit A on why the social contract in the US is dead. Instead of using politics to better your physical situation you use it as therapy. I'm not virtuous enough to push for higher taxes and more welfare? By shutting me down you'll have even more poor to celebrate! Isn't virtue signalling great?
- ice109 9y ago
  how am i virtue signalling on an anonymous forum? who am i signalling to? i don't even have anything identifying me on my profile? and googling this name brings up nothing. so umm maybe i actually mean what i say?
- dang 9y ago
  Would you please stop arguing like this on HN? It's hard enough for this place to touch on divisive topics without disintegrating. When you post in this nasty, acerbic way, you're weakening the already-fragile bonds that keep HN barely cohesive, and contributing it to it going down in flames. (That's ironic for a post that mentions social contract.) We ban accounts that do this repeatedly, so please make sure not to. A long time ago, pg (who created HN) wrote: A comment in reply to another comment should be written in the spirit of colleagues cooperating in good faith to figure out the truth about something, not politicians trying to ridicule and misrepresent the other side. That's the standard we ask users here to follow, regardless of how wrong or provocative the other comment has been.
  - korrachs 9y ago
    >you've gotta be one of the most of out touch people i've ever seen express their out of touch opinions. Kettle meet pot.
    - dang 9y ago
      I scolded that user as well of course, but you need to follow the rules regardless of who doesn't.
dang 9y ago
> you've gotta be one of the most of out touch people i've ever seen Personal attacks like this are a bannable offense on HN. Please never post like this again. Instead, please (re)-read the following and follow them in letter and in spirit from now on: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html That means posting civilly and substantively, or not at all.

by ice109 9y ago

korrachs 9y ago

Here we have exhibit A on why the social contract in the US is dead. Instead of using politics to better your physical situation you use it as therapy. I'm not virtuous enough to push for higher taxes and more welfare? By shutting me down you'll have even more poor to celebrate! Isn't virtue signalling great?

ice109 9y ago
how am i virtue signalling on an anonymous forum? who am i signalling to? i don't even have anything identifying me on my profile? and googling this name brings up nothing. so umm maybe i actually mean what i say?
dang 9y ago
Would you please stop arguing like this on HN? It's hard enough for this place to touch on divisive topics without disintegrating. When you post in this nasty, acerbic way, you're weakening the already-fragile bonds that keep HN barely cohesive, and contributing it to it going down in flames. (That's ironic for a post that mentions social contract.) We ban accounts that do this repeatedly, so please make sure not to. A long time ago, pg (who created HN) wrote: A comment in reply to another comment should be written in the spirit of colleagues cooperating in good faith to figure out the truth about something, not politicians trying to ridicule and misrepresent the other side. That's the standard we ask users here to follow, regardless of how wrong or provocative the other comment has been.
- korrachs 9y ago
  >you've gotta be one of the most of out touch people i've ever seen express their out of touch opinions. Kettle meet pot.
  - dang 9y ago
    I scolded that user as well of course, but you need to follow the rules regardless of who doesn't.

dang 9y ago

> you've gotta be one of the most of out touch people i've ever seen Personal attacks like this are a bannable offense on HN. Please never post like this again. Instead, please (re)-read the following and follow them in letter and in spirit from now on: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html That means posting civilly and substantively, or not at all.