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> There was a recent comment on HN where someone threatened my wife would be raped, my cell phone would stop working, modern society would fall apart, and my ch
by AlecSchueler 2y ago
> There was a recent comment on HN where someone threatened my wife would be raped, my cell phone would stop working, modern society would fall apart, and my children would all be marched off to war if I don't pay taxes to fund Ukraine. Unlike my own greyed comments, those were vetted
I know the thread you are talking about and this is a very hyperbolic misrepresentation of that exchange. Anyone reading this would be free to check your comment history and understand why "the HN crowd" responded in the way they did.
- ty6853 2y agoSure and it isn't hyperbolic to force down the rabbit hole that not paying Ukraine brings us straight into whatever anarcho dystopia is believed to come down as soon as grey area executive military impoundment happens. That's the way it always is, certain sentiment are just accepted while others go straight into wife raping -- but how dare _you_ be hyperbolic!