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This is naked political activism that clearly breaks the HN guidelines and offers zero informational content, intellectual gratification, or other value to me o

This is naked political activism that clearly breaks the HN guidelines and offers zero informational content, intellectual gratification, or other value to me or anyone else here. Please don't put stuff like this on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

jklinger410 2y ago
There is nothing political about what I said.
- throw10920 2y ago
  > I understand that some people would look at that list and say I should have never expected some of those, but pardon me for being propagandized at a very young age that we lived in a country that was good and just. That's my bad. > So I am not surprised to see this, and expect to see more of it. This is political. You are extremely clearly dog-whistling to the "government needs to reform healthcare" and "America bad" groups. Precisely zero people use this kind of hyper-charged, content-less language without a political agenda.
  - potamic 2y ago
    I think that's a fair bit of stretch
    - throw10920 2y ago
      You are wrong. People do not say things like > but pardon me for being propagandized at a very young age that we lived in a country that was good and just. That's my bad. on HN without a political agenda.
Fauntleroy 2y ago
Can you please elaborate on what the political activism in the above comment is?
- throw10920 2y ago
  The long list of statements carefully chosen to maximize emotion with minimal information transfer, followed by > I understand that some people would look at that list and say I should have never expected some of those, but pardon me for being propagandized at a very young age that we lived in a country that was good and just. That's my bad. > So I am not surprised to see this, and expect to see more of it. ...which is a clearly political call for "someone to do something", using extremely emotionally charged language with zero (negative?) utility such as "pardon me for being propagandized at a very young age that we lived in a country that was good and just".

jklinger410 2y ago

There is nothing political about what I said.

throw10920 2y ago
> I understand that some people would look at that list and say I should have never expected some of those, but pardon me for being propagandized at a very young age that we lived in a country that was good and just. That's my bad. > So I am not surprised to see this, and expect to see more of it. This is political. You are extremely clearly dog-whistling to the "government needs to reform healthcare" and "America bad" groups. Precisely zero people use this kind of hyper-charged, content-less language without a political agenda.
- potamic 2y ago
  I think that's a fair bit of stretch
  - throw10920 2y ago
    You are wrong. People do not say things like > but pardon me for being propagandized at a very young age that we lived in a country that was good and just. That's my bad. on HN without a political agenda.

Fauntleroy 2y ago

Can you please elaborate on what the political activism in the above comment is?

throw10920 2y ago
The long list of statements carefully chosen to maximize emotion with minimal information transfer, followed by > I understand that some people would look at that list and say I should have never expected some of those, but pardon me for being propagandized at a very young age that we lived in a country that was good and just. That's my bad. > So I am not surprised to see this, and expect to see more of it. ...which is a clearly political call for "someone to do something", using extremely emotionally charged language with zero (negative?) utility such as "pardon me for being propagandized at a very young age that we lived in a country that was good and just".