> You are assuming that I support Trump, or that the author does. I don't, and he doesn't. You are engaging in what-aboutism. Seeing the person you're respondi

> You are assuming that I support Trump, or that the author does. I don't, and he doesn't. You are engaging in what-aboutism. Seeing the person you're responding to's attitude fills me with a sort of depressing frustration. As a center-left person myself, I engage with people and I'm always up against the wall of what-aboutism. If I criticize Trump those folks start a rant about Obama or Biden. If I criticize the topic we're talking about here, I'm reminded about how mean the GOP is. For years I've been trying to wrap my head around this. HN doesn't like political conversation, I get it. But a HN-friendly topic would be, is technology itself to blame for this insane bifurcation of conversation, from topic-by-topic or subject-oriented reasoning and debate, to this head-scratching angry tribalism? Or is it just human nature somehow (whatever that means)?