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Please don’t hijaack this thread for another ideological flame war. Just re-read this to yourself as needed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16417262 http

Please don’t hijaack this thread for another ideological flame war. Just re-read this to yourself as needed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16417262 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16417262

Tech-Noir 9y ago
> Please don’t hijaack this thread for another ideological flame war. The very first post in this thread - paying the briefest of lip service to the article before the poster (with 6 out of 18 comments here, not one of which actually discusses the article) gets to what he really wants to talk about - is ideological flame bait, which you were happy to go along with and egg on. So don't tell me, effecting the tone of a moderator, to do something you're unable to do yourself. If you don't like me challenging fictional, completely politicized claims that poison virtually every thread like this these days, then take your own advice and read something else instead.
gnarbarian 9y ago
Thanks for cluing me in on that. There's no point in arguing with an ideologue.
lucideer 9y ago
Might be worth addressing both posters directly as the initial ideological hijack Tech-Noir was rebutting seems to have missed the point that neither sides of that flame-war belong on HN.
- IntronExon 9y ago
  Contrary to what Tech-Noir is slinging, I’m not a mod or trying to act like one. At this point I’m just flagging and moving on and wishing that the article posted didn’t trigger so many people’s pro/anti-communism kneejerk.
  - Tech-Noir 9y ago
    > Contrary to what Tech-Noir is slinging, I’m not a mod or trying to act like one. I didn't claim you were a mod, I said you were effecting the tone of a mod ("Please don't..."), which you were. > [I'm] wishing that the article posted didn’t trigger so many people’s so many people’s pro/anti-communism kneejerk. At the time I replied to you, you and gnarbarian made up half the comments here, yet neither you were discussing the article. Your own posts were simply about the Holocaust, Holodomor, Mao, Hitler, etc. The entire thread from gnarbarian's original post on should be nuked.
- gnarbarian 9y ago
  You're right, I am opposed to communism, but I am not an ideologue. I posit that painting both anti-communists and communists as ideologues and rejecting both arguments is a false equivalence since communism is an extreme. To provide another example it's similar to saying "Anti-Nazis and Nazis are both ideologues, neither of their arguments should be listened to. "

Tech-Noir 9y ago

> Please don’t hijaack this thread for another ideological flame war. The very first post in this thread - paying the briefest of lip service to the article before the poster (with 6 out of 18 comments here, not one of which actually discusses the article) gets to what he really wants to talk about - is ideological flame bait, which you were happy to go along with and egg on. So don't tell me, effecting the tone of a moderator, to do something you're unable to do yourself. If you don't like me challenging fictional, completely politicized claims that poison virtually every thread like this these days, then take your own advice and read something else instead.

gnarbarian 9y ago

Thanks for cluing me in on that. There's no point in arguing with an ideologue.

lucideer 9y ago

Might be worth addressing both posters directly as the initial ideological hijack Tech-Noir was rebutting seems to have missed the point that neither sides of that flame-war belong on HN.

IntronExon 9y ago
Contrary to what Tech-Noir is slinging, I’m not a mod or trying to act like one. At this point I’m just flagging and moving on and wishing that the article posted didn’t trigger so many people’s pro/anti-communism kneejerk.
- Tech-Noir 9y ago
  > Contrary to what Tech-Noir is slinging, I’m not a mod or trying to act like one. I didn't claim you were a mod, I said you were effecting the tone of a mod ("Please don't..."), which you were. > [I'm] wishing that the article posted didn’t trigger so many people’s so many people’s pro/anti-communism kneejerk. At the time I replied to you, you and gnarbarian made up half the comments here, yet neither you were discussing the article. Your own posts were simply about the Holocaust, Holodomor, Mao, Hitler, etc. The entire thread from gnarbarian's original post on should be nuked.
gnarbarian 9y ago
You're right, I am opposed to communism, but I am not an ideologue. I posit that painting both anti-communists and communists as ideologues and rejecting both arguments is a false equivalence since communism is an extreme. To provide another example it's similar to saying "Anti-Nazis and Nazis are both ideologues, neither of their arguments should be listened to. "