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How about instead of doing stupid games where we pretend the people who have been dead for 100 years represent today because of some mystical bullshit associati
by sophacles 3y ago
How about instead of doing stupid games where we pretend the people who have been dead for 100 years represent today because of some mystical bullshit associating team membership with values, we look at the positions of the politicians alive and active today, and what they do and vote accordingly.
Republican and Democrat are not spiritual entities, they are not some team or lord you pledge undying allegiance to, they are a group of politicians who share large parts of their agenda.
I know its fun to pretend that you're on a team, and that simplifying everyting to "my team vs other team" makes small minded idiots feel like they understand something for a change. Please don't encourage them though, it doesn't help anything. Engage with issues and have your opinion, don't take positions because of team affiliation, take them because you think that's the right position anything else is lazy, willful igornance.
- jjtheblunt 3y agoHow about you read the parent comment to mine, which DID exactly reverse who won the civil war?
- dang 3y agoCan you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- sophacles 3y agoI get it, someone dissed your team and you need to be angry. When you calm down, reread my comment. Notice I started with "how about ... we". Like everyone needs to not particpate in this team-based political nonsense. I consider you and GP both as part of everyone. Besides, you are flat out incorrect - no one won the civil war. No one really wins wars, some just lose a little less hard than others.
- dang 3y agoI'm afraid you broke the site guidelines very badly in this thread. Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to using HN in the intended spirit? That means without swipes, personal attacks, and so on, and generally eschewing flamewar. Edit: you've unfortunately been doing this in other places recently as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35804439 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35804439. We have to ban accounts that do this repeatedly. I don't want to ban you, so please fix this. Fortunately it doesn't seem to dominate your comment history overall so it should be fairly easy to fix.
- jjtheblunt 3y agoI don’t have a team.
- sophacles 3y agoWhat a wierd lie.