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People always come first. And it's not like the "march of progress" somehow has skipped Germany, so that's a rather flimsy argument. Neither is Germany "paying

People always come first. And it's not like the "march of progress" somehow has skipped Germany, so that's a rather flimsy argument. Neither is Germany "paying people with tax dollars to continue doing the same thing for life". Can we move on from the empty talking points? Can we talk about how the social security measures in Europe ensured that, as opposed to the US, we won't see 50+ million people suffering hunger later this year? Can we talk about the oh-so-beautiful paragon of capitalism has gleefully murdered 10s of thousand of people for the sake of the economy? When that "economy" really is only propping up Wall Street?

dang 6y ago
You've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly lately (e.g. this comment, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23372779 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23372779, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23372391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23372391, among others). Would you please stop using HN for ideological and political flamewar? It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. That does no good and helps no one, regardless of how right you are, or feel you are, on the underlying issues. I realize that nearly everywhere else on the internet is burning with these flames, but that makes it more important, not less, to prevent HN from destroying itself in this way. The idea here is to have at least one place on the internet that's organized around intellectual curiosity. We can't do that and also be a political flamewar site, for the same reason that you can't have a tank battle in a park or a museum, or a good hike in a forest fire. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.

dang 6y ago

You've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly lately (e.g. this comment, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23372779 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23372779, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23372391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23372391, among others). Would you please stop using HN for ideological and political flamewar? It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. That does no good and helps no one, regardless of how right you are, or feel you are, on the underlying issues. I realize that nearly everywhere else on the internet is burning with these flames, but that makes it more important, not less, to prevent HN from destroying itself in this way. The idea here is to have at least one place on the internet that's organized around intellectual curiosity. We can't do that and also be a political flamewar site, for the same reason that you can't have a tank battle in a park or a museum, or a good hike in a forest fire. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.