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Funny looking back on all the comments about how it was potentially a false flag.

t_mann 2y ago
Which comments are you looking at? By a brief scan, the vast majority of comments, including practically all the top-voted ones, are calling out his "opsec troll" as a deflection strategy, which appears to have been confirmed now. Even if there are some that bought his story, your comment does not seem like an adequate reflection of the general tone of that thread.
- 542354234235 2y ago
  >your comment does not seem like an adequate reflection of the general tone of that thread. I don't think they were trying to capture the "general tone" but a pervasive idea that kept coming up in the comments. When I saw the headline, the first thing I thought about was this thread and "all the comments" talking about 3D chess false flag moves. Not the majority, not the overall sentiment, but just a significant number of eye rolling comments.
  - jjulius 2y ago
    Yeah, like this comment confidently stating that he's not a US soldier and the fatigues aren't military-issue... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42256857 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42256857
    - duxup 2y ago
      It's not like military-issue fatigues would even be hard to come by. People's conspiracy theory gotchas always seem awkward / unlikely at best.
      - krisoft 2y ago
        > It's not like military-issue fatigues would even be hard to come by. That is exactly the point the linked comment makes. It is in agreement with you on that. Fatigues like the one on the image he shared are easy to come by. This is what the comment says and this is what you say. > People's conspiracy theory gotchas There is no conspiracy theory in the linked comment. It just says that they believe the perpatrator is not really in the military just pretending to be. That is hardly a conspiracy theory.
duxup 2y ago
False flag theories always seem so much more complicated than necessary / actually would seem to introduce MORE risk of being uncovered because of the complexity.

Which comments are you looking at? By a brief scan, the vast majority of comments, including practically all the top-voted ones, are calling out his "opsec troll" as a deflection strategy, which appears to have been confirmed now. Even if there are some that bought his story, your comment does not seem like an adequate reflection of the general tone of that thread.

542354234235 2y ago
>your comment does not seem like an adequate reflection of the general tone of that thread. I don't think they were trying to capture the "general tone" but a pervasive idea that kept coming up in the comments. When I saw the headline, the first thing I thought about was this thread and "all the comments" talking about 3D chess false flag moves. Not the majority, not the overall sentiment, but just a significant number of eye rolling comments.
- jjulius 2y ago
  Yeah, like this comment confidently stating that he's not a US soldier and the fatigues aren't military-issue... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42256857 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42256857
  - duxup 2y ago
    It's not like military-issue fatigues would even be hard to come by. People's conspiracy theory gotchas always seem awkward / unlikely at best.
    - krisoft 2y ago
      > It's not like military-issue fatigues would even be hard to come by. That is exactly the point the linked comment makes. It is in agreement with you on that. Fatigues like the one on the image he shared are easy to come by. This is what the comment says and this is what you say. > People's conspiracy theory gotchas There is no conspiracy theory in the linked comment. It just says that they believe the perpatrator is not really in the military just pretending to be. That is hardly a conspiracy theory.

duxup 2y ago

False flag theories always seem so much more complicated than necessary / actually would seem to introduce MORE risk of being uncovered because of the complexity.