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The downvoters don’t like to see it mentioned that Glen Greenwald is a liar. The evidence is clear though. In this specific case, he has produced fake evidence,

The downvoters don’t like to see it mentioned that Glen Greenwald is a liar. The evidence is clear though. In this specific case, he has produced fake evidence, by implicating in his “leak” the names of people who weren’t event involved in the Car Wash operator, not to mention faking timestamps to try to prove something that never happened. The real coup attempt here is being done by the method of greenwalding [1]. [1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=greenwalding https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=greenwalding

dang 7y ago
Please do not do political flamewar on HN. It's not what this site is for. Personal attacks, which you did in the parent comment, will particularly get you banned here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: we've had to warn you about this repeatedly, yet you've continued to break the site guidelines. That eventually leads to getting banned on HN. I don't want to ban you, because you've posted good comments as well, so would you please fix this?
- andrenth 7y ago
  Sorry, it’s just that the original comment is so completely nonfactual that I cannot attribute it to anything other than naïveté or ill motives. But I should have articulated that in different words. I do think that the original post should also be warned against political flamewars, because if a post like that goes unreplied, someone might think it’s true without questioning it.
  - dang 7y ago
    > I cannot attribute it to anything other than naïveté or ill motives You've articulated this perception nicely. We all feel it, but it's a cognitive bias that we project onto others. I've been trying to convince HN users of this for years: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=true&page=0&query=by:dang%20opposing%20view https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... I did reply to other comments in this thread, but in general it's too high a bar to expect mods to reply equally to all violations, for the same reasons that cops can't give speeding tickets to all speeders: they don't see all of them, and issuing a ticket takes a lot of time.

dang 7y ago

Please do not do political flamewar on HN. It's not what this site is for. Personal attacks, which you did in the parent comment, will particularly get you banned here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: we've had to warn you about this repeatedly, yet you've continued to break the site guidelines. That eventually leads to getting banned on HN. I don't want to ban you, because you've posted good comments as well, so would you please fix this?

andrenth 7y ago
Sorry, it’s just that the original comment is so completely nonfactual that I cannot attribute it to anything other than naïveté or ill motives. But I should have articulated that in different words. I do think that the original post should also be warned against political flamewars, because if a post like that goes unreplied, someone might think it’s true without questioning it.
- dang 7y ago
  > I cannot attribute it to anything other than naïveté or ill motives You've articulated this perception nicely. We all feel it, but it's a cognitive bias that we project onto others. I've been trying to convince HN users of this for years: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=true&page=0&query=by:dang%20opposing%20view https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... I did reply to other comments in this thread, but in general it's too high a bar to expect mods to reply equally to all violations, for the same reasons that cops can't give speeding tickets to all speeders: they don't see all of them, and issuing a ticket takes a lot of time.