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Just a short pause to your circulatory system, clearly it's the system at fault. A weakness in a system that can only be exploited by malice from those in powe
by TOMDM 2y ago
Just a short pause to your circulatory system, clearly it's the system at fault.
A weakness in a system that can only be exploited by malice from those in power isn't necessarily something we can always expect to protect against, and at most only mitigate.
- fallingknife 2y agoThis is a bureaucracy not a circulatory system
- TOMDM 2y ago[flagged]
- fallingknife 2y ago[flagged]
- TOMDM 2y agoThen why not point out the flaw in the argument instead of gesturing vaguely at a metaphor. It seems you only want to go after points like that instead of engaging with the central point of anyone's actual arguments. Reducing every argument to a lab on "it's last legs", or a mismatch in a metaphor that's not central to the point being made. If you want to argue to quiet that little voice in your head I suppose it might work, but if you actually care about the truth of the matter or even just understanding why people are saying what they're saying then you've lost the plot entirely.
- fallingknife 2y ago[flagged]
- TOMDM 2y agoHere I can spell it out for you. The second sentence from my first post: > malice from those in power isn't necessarily something we can always expect to protect against, and at most only mitigate. That's the central point/argument. To drag out the conclusion here, do we even want government institutions that continue to function once the executive pulls funding from them? Ignoring whether it should be expected, are we really at a point where we are saying "look I know I intentionally pulled the funding but I want it to keep working anyway!" By hey if you want to go back to speaking to the ad homs (of which I've delivered many that you clearly deserve at this point), or continuing to fail to understand metaphors, be my guest, but don't pretend you're actually engaging with the argument.
- dang 2y agoYour account has unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly. (Another example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42818990 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42818990.) We ban accounts that do this, and we've warned you multiple times before. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34135850 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34135850 (Dec 2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28888036 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28888036 (Oct 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21696848 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21696848 (Dec 2019) If this keeps up we're going to end up banning you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this, we'd appreciate it.
- dang 2y agoPersonal attacks are not allowed here and we ban accounts that post them, so please don't do that. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- TOMDM 2y agoFair play Dang, I appreciate the ecosystem you've made here, so out of respect for that I'll moderate my engagement. Thank you for the work you put in.