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Your inability to understand the subject is astounding. Funny how you demand from me to show you numbers when you are not doing so yourself .. but what can i e

Your inability to understand the subject is astounding. Funny how you demand from me to show you numbers when you are not doing so yourself .. but what can i expect from a german right ? ;) My point was never about commies mooching off the great capitalists so again you missed this one as well. The point was that the european economies gained its wealth and glory by employing capitalist practiced in the countries of 2nd and 3rd world while pretending moral superiority and bad mouthing countries like the US or China.

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dang 8y ago
You violated the site guidelines badly more than once in this wretched flamewar. That's bad, and we ban accounts that do this. We've also had to warn you before about this. Would you please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use the site only as intended from now on? The rules are the way they are because we don't want this community to destroy itself. If it's valuable enough for you to participate in, it's valuable enough for you to help preserve it. Helping to wreck it is incongruent, and I'm sure you're not doing that intentionally, but unfortunately the effects are the same.
- fwdpropaganda 8y ago
  > I'm sure you're not doing that intentionally And I'm sure that you know that is not true. You can't possibly believe that someone who says "but what can i expect from a german" does not know exactly the effect he will provoke on the other person.
  - dang 8y ago
    The capacity to not see something like that goes orders of magnitude further than you'd expect. That's one thing I've learned from moderating HN: nearly all abuse, including what you'd swear is outright trolling, is unconscious and unintentional. Any vague awareness that one is doing it is accompanied by the righteous feeling that the other person has done much worse; which is another variant of self-deception. I'd even say that in their trivial way, these internet forum dynamics are connected to the causes of violence and war. If that's true, it has an interesting consequence: internet forums are an opportunity—trivial, yes, but therefore also safe—to work on the sources of violence and war in oneself.

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dang 8y ago

You violated the site guidelines badly more than once in this wretched flamewar. That's bad, and we ban accounts that do this. We've also had to warn you before about this. Would you please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use the site only as intended from now on? The rules are the way they are because we don't want this community to destroy itself. If it's valuable enough for you to participate in, it's valuable enough for you to help preserve it. Helping to wreck it is incongruent, and I'm sure you're not doing that intentionally, but unfortunately the effects are the same.

fwdpropaganda 8y ago
> I'm sure you're not doing that intentionally And I'm sure that you know that is not true. You can't possibly believe that someone who says "but what can i expect from a german" does not know exactly the effect he will provoke on the other person.
- dang 8y ago
  The capacity to not see something like that goes orders of magnitude further than you'd expect. That's one thing I've learned from moderating HN: nearly all abuse, including what you'd swear is outright trolling, is unconscious and unintentional. Any vague awareness that one is doing it is accompanied by the righteous feeling that the other person has done much worse; which is another variant of self-deception. I'd even say that in their trivial way, these internet forum dynamics are connected to the causes of violence and war. If that's true, it has an interesting consequence: internet forums are an opportunity—trivial, yes, but therefore also safe—to work on the sources of violence and war in oneself.