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You might have some points to make but you lost me at "All the anti establishment movement is nihilistic in its core." Sweeping generalities like this are anat

You might have some points to make but you lost me at "All the anti establishment movement is nihilistic in its core." Sweeping generalities like this are anathema to discourse.

GavinMcG 6y ago
Or they're a starting point. You could respond with agreement or disagreement and an argument.
- chrisweekly 6y ago
  The larger point I was making with my comment -- which seems to have been insufficiently clear -- was precisely that making extreme statements to trigger deliberately contentious argument is a style of interaction I prefer to avoid. Per the HN rules of conduct, I assumed good faith and interpreted the parent in the most favorable light I could, given it bordered on trolling. What is there to argue? The idea that there's a simple binary split between The Establishment and Nihilists?
  - GavinMcG 6y ago
    > given it bordered on trolling Really?! I've seen plenty of trolling in my day, and that didn't ring any of my alarm bells. Is it really that bizarre to you to call anti-establishment /r/wsb gamblers "nihilistic"? The ethos of the subreddit is basically "eh, screw it, let's see what happens" so is it that hard to imagine a subset of members going a little further, to "eh, screw it, none of this matters"?
    - arpa 6y ago
      Do you need a hand? You seem to be on a slippery slope. I've heard this one before - it was a single cannabis cigarette at first, but soon he was out there killing grandmas for drug money.
bostonsre 6y ago
Idk, it kind of sounds plausible to me. I don't see the Wallstreet bets sub reddit starting a revolution, protests or suddenly running for office to enact change. Do you?
- read_if_gay_ 6y ago
  The point is WSB isn't all the anti establishment movement.
- wolfram74 6y ago
  And wallstreet bets is the extent of antiestablishment sentiment?
- nickthemagicman 6y ago
  I don't think Rosa Parks meant to start a revolution either. She was just reacting to what she perceived as unfair.

You might have some points to make but you lost me at "All the anti establishment movement is nihilistic in its core." Sweeping generalities like this are anathema to discourse.

GavinMcG 6y ago

Or they're a starting point. You could respond with agreement or disagreement and an argument.

chrisweekly 6y ago
The larger point I was making with my comment -- which seems to have been insufficiently clear -- was precisely that making extreme statements to trigger deliberately contentious argument is a style of interaction I prefer to avoid. Per the HN rules of conduct, I assumed good faith and interpreted the parent in the most favorable light I could, given it bordered on trolling. What is there to argue? The idea that there's a simple binary split between The Establishment and Nihilists?
- GavinMcG 6y ago
  > given it bordered on trolling Really?! I've seen plenty of trolling in my day, and that didn't ring any of my alarm bells. Is it really that bizarre to you to call anti-establishment /r/wsb gamblers "nihilistic"? The ethos of the subreddit is basically "eh, screw it, let's see what happens" so is it that hard to imagine a subset of members going a little further, to "eh, screw it, none of this matters"?
  - arpa 6y ago
    Do you need a hand? You seem to be on a slippery slope. I've heard this one before - it was a single cannabis cigarette at first, but soon he was out there killing grandmas for drug money.

bostonsre 6y ago

Idk, it kind of sounds plausible to me. I don't see the Wallstreet bets sub reddit starting a revolution, protests or suddenly running for office to enact change. Do you?

read_if_gay_ 6y ago
The point is WSB isn't all the anti establishment movement.
wolfram74 6y ago
And wallstreet bets is the extent of antiestablishment sentiment?
nickthemagicman 6y ago
I don't think Rosa Parks meant to start a revolution either. She was just reacting to what she perceived as unfair.