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A large majority of Democrat voters fell for these baseless and dangerous election-denial conspiracy theories. Why do you ask? https://twitter.com/peterjhasson

A large majority of Democrat voters fell for these baseless and dangerous election-denial conspiracy theories. Why do you ask? https://twitter.com/peterjhasson/status/1064259048902668289 https://twitter.com/peterjhasson/status/1064259048902668289

dragonwriter 4y ago
The one question you present evidence of is not questioning the legitimacy and validity of the election; there is a difference between believing (rightly or wrongly, with or without sufficient cause) that improper activity effected the popular vote tally and believing that the election is illegitimate. You present no evidence relating to actual election denial.
- throwawaylinux 4y ago
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  - dang 4y ago
    You've broken the site guidelines egregiously here, and have unfortunately been doing that a bunch elsewhere. We've warned you multiple times before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34429933 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34429933 (Jan 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30858404 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30858404 (March 2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29085513 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29085513 (Nov 2021) If you keep this up we're going to have to ban you. I don't want to ban you. Therefore could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules? Including, but not limited to: not being snarky, not calling names, not making personal attacks, not posting flamewar comments, and not using HN primarily for political battle.
    - throwawaylinux 4y ago
      Sure I'll try to do better, I'm sorry. Would you apply the same rules to people escalating, calling me names, being snarky, etc in the same thread?
      - dang 4y ago
        Appreciated! Yes, if that's what they were doing, but I'd have to see specific links. (For example I don't think https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35366985 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35366985 broke the site guidelines although it wasn't entirely un-edgy either.)
        throwawaylinux 4y ago
        I don't have a problem with the comment you linked. But this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35366133 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35366133 kicked off the snark with the first sentence, and quickly escalated to namecalling, calling me a liar a few comments later. So yes I should have just ignored them or kept the higher ground, but sometimes that kind of trolling sucks me in.
        dang 4y ago
        I don't think the first sentence of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35366133 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35366133 was snarky. Interpretations differ, of course, and often by quite a bit when someone is speaking to you personally, but FWIW that sounds rather neutral to my ear.

dragonwriter 4y ago

The one question you present evidence of is not questioning the legitimacy and validity of the election; there is a difference between believing (rightly or wrongly, with or without sufficient cause) that improper activity effected the popular vote tally and believing that the election is illegitimate. You present no evidence relating to actual election denial.

throwawaylinux 4y ago
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- dang 4y ago
  You've broken the site guidelines egregiously here, and have unfortunately been doing that a bunch elsewhere. We've warned you multiple times before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34429933 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34429933 (Jan 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30858404 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30858404 (March 2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29085513 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29085513 (Nov 2021) If you keep this up we're going to have to ban you. I don't want to ban you. Therefore could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules? Including, but not limited to: not being snarky, not calling names, not making personal attacks, not posting flamewar comments, and not using HN primarily for political battle.
  - throwawaylinux 4y ago
    Sure I'll try to do better, I'm sorry. Would you apply the same rules to people escalating, calling me names, being snarky, etc in the same thread?
    - dang 4y ago
      Appreciated! Yes, if that's what they were doing, but I'd have to see specific links. (For example I don't think https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35366985 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35366985 broke the site guidelines although it wasn't entirely un-edgy either.)
      - throwawaylinux 4y ago
        I don't have a problem with the comment you linked. But this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35366133 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35366133 kicked off the snark with the first sentence, and quickly escalated to namecalling, calling me a liar a few comments later. So yes I should have just ignored them or kept the higher ground, but sometimes that kind of trolling sucks me in.
        dang 4y ago
        I don't think the first sentence of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35366133 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35366133 was snarky. Interpretations differ, of course, and often by quite a bit when someone is speaking to you personally, but FWIW that sounds rather neutral to my ear.