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When I made that post this was in the main branch (e.g. starting at top comment and going down you hit this before any leaf): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
by concordDance 2y ago
When I made that post this was in the main branch (e.g. starting at top comment and going down you hit this before any leaf): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43103830 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43103830
- nobankai 2y agoBut every thing stated in the comment you linked is provably true. It's certainly concerning, but I can't see a single statement they made with a dubious basis in truth. Are there any parts that you think violate the guidelines specifically?
- squigz 2y agoIt doesn't matter if every part of it is factually true or not - it doesn't add anything to the discussion.
- concordDance 2y agoYeah, this. It substantially worsens the heat/light ratio of ensuing discussion and adds little. Trump is not an obscure topic. "Trump lies all the time" is not a novel statement people won't have encountered and considered before, if someone already believes "Trump lies all the time" then that sentence tells them nothing new and if they don't believe it the post is hardly going to change their mind.
- hector126 2y agoThe first sentence begins with "Trump lies through his teeth with every word" Love him or hate him, I would argue that there are indeed words Trump has spoken which are not lies made through his teeth. I would put that level of hyperbole within the realm of "dubious basis in truth".
- kelnos 2y agoOh c'mon, that's just silly. That statement is so clearly rhetorical hyperbole that it doesn't need to pass any standard of truth. Trump lies. A lot. That is provably true. "Trump lies through his teeth with every word" is a reasonable hyperbolic expression of that truth.
- hector126 2y agoThey literally said "provably true". Trump absolutely lies a lot. He doesn't lie _all the time_. I don't think that's an inappropriate level of nuance for someone to acknowledge.