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The phrase "Banana Republic" is entirely due to Chiquita/United Fruit Company. God bless America? (Also, wtf, Banana Republic is now an American fashion brand

The phrase "Banana Republic" is entirely due to Chiquita/United Fruit Company. God bless America? (Also, wtf, Banana Republic is now an American fashion brand? Jesus Christ, way to have zero insight) Once again, really unsure why you're being downvoted for mentioning facts. Are you perhaps hurting some "invisible hand" idealists feelings? Who knows.

ic0n0cl4st 6y ago
> Once again, really unsure why you're being downvoted for mentioning facts. > Are you perhaps hurting some "invisible hand" idealists feelings? Who knows. I’ve noticed that anything which questions capitalism, especially American capitalism gets rapidly downvoted. There seems to be a group of people, possibly even a bot network, which downvotes any and all such criticism. Randian ovjectivists have an outsized representation inside of YC as well as the HN community at large. I mean, why wouldn’t they? In a way YC is a successful cult which worships ar the alter of prosperity.
- dang 6y ago
  > I’ve noticed that anything You're noticing, and then overgeneralizing, the data points you dislike (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20notice%20dislike&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). The overgeneralization comes because you don't notice (or underemphasize) the data points that don't make you angry. This is classic sample bias, as I believe I've pointed out to you under a different username in the past. Once people arrive at a spurious generalization like this, they imagine grandiose and sinister explanations for it. But the truth is quite boring: the community is divided the same way society at large is divided, the same way any large-enough population sample is. The only way HN is different is that we try to stop people from bashing each other with rhetorical two-by-fours about it. With limited success. Since you've continued to post flamewar comments and ignore our requests to stop, I've banned this account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's guidelines with. For someone who purports to care about community, that's incongruent. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

ic0n0cl4st 6y ago

> Once again, really unsure why you're being downvoted for mentioning facts. > Are you perhaps hurting some "invisible hand" idealists feelings? Who knows. I’ve noticed that anything which questions capitalism, especially American capitalism gets rapidly downvoted. There seems to be a group of people, possibly even a bot network, which downvotes any and all such criticism. Randian ovjectivists have an outsized representation inside of YC as well as the HN community at large. I mean, why wouldn’t they? In a way YC is a successful cult which worships ar the alter of prosperity.

dang 6y ago
> I’ve noticed that anything You're noticing, and then overgeneralizing, the data points you dislike (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20notice%20dislike&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). The overgeneralization comes because you don't notice (or underemphasize) the data points that don't make you angry. This is classic sample bias, as I believe I've pointed out to you under a different username in the past. Once people arrive at a spurious generalization like this, they imagine grandiose and sinister explanations for it. But the truth is quite boring: the community is divided the same way society at large is divided, the same way any large-enough population sample is. The only way HN is different is that we try to stop people from bashing each other with rhetorical two-by-fours about it. With limited success. Since you've continued to post flamewar comments and ignore our requests to stop, I've banned this account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's guidelines with. For someone who purports to care about community, that's incongruent. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html