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I generally enjoy reading HN, but reddit-style thought-policing like this makes me sick to my stomach. The guy's not a rapist or a neo-Nazi, he's just not a so

• davidw 16y ago
  This whole thread is EXHIBIT A of why there should be no politics here.
  • endtime 16y ago
    In case it's not apparent from my comment, I agree 100%.
  • hugh3 16y ago
    And the fact that this comment was modded up to eight "Waaaaah, your ideology makes me sick" is a sign that things have gone way off the rails. I'm gonna set my noprocrast to 87000 minutes now and come back in two months.
    • davidw 16y ago
      People's ideologies do make other people angry though. Which is why they should be aired on other sites.
      • nika 16y ago
        IS that the fault of the minority who thinks different and then angers the majority? Or is that he fault of the majority who is so sensitive it cannot tolerate a minority that doesn't agree absolutely completely?
        • davidw 16y ago
          I don't care - I just don't want to see these endless debates here. They are always the same and go 'round and 'round and nothing is ever accomplished other than pissing people off.
        • JoachimSchipper 16y ago
          As far as I can tell, the majority just wants the politics debates to stop.
• ugh 16y ago
  This is pure semantics but are you really comfortable calling anyone who doesn’t want a flat tax a socialist? Someone who doesn’t want a flat tax could have voted for any party in my country.
  • endtime 16y ago
    I was being a little facetious, yes, but if someone to be actually sickened by ebaysuck's position then that constrains my prediction of his beliefs a little more than just not wanting a flat tax for e.g. practical reasons. In other words, I don't think just anyone who doesn't want a flat tax would say what xtho said.