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What is 'this'? Sarcasm or not following groupthink?

• dang 7y ago
  Post unsubstantive comments, especially snarky or indignant ones. There's obviously no 'groupthink' on HN about Huawei.
  • NotPaidToPost 7y ago
    My comment was 'substantive', as you put it. Sarcastic, but substantive. It's funny how you felt you had to use the word 'obviously'...
    • dang 7y ago
      I just mean that people argue about Huawei and other China-related stories quite fiercely whenever they come up (often too fiercely: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). 'Groupthink' is refuted by a quick glance into any such thread. Actually though, the word 'groupthink' usually isn't about anything other than oneself. It's a form of internet preening: I the noble freethinker, towering above the deluded masses in whose midst I deign to glide. In other words, a middlebrow 'sheeple'. (Sorry if that feels like I'm picking on you personally; I don't mean to.)