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This urge to defend the indefensible and “both sides” the most corrupt administration in American history is exactly the problem. Go take a look in the mirror.

sculper 3mo ago
Worth noting that the commenter you're replying to is only LARPing as a centrist. The comment history of his other (now-banned) accounts are directly at odds with some of the "truths" he claims to have realized. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=complianceowl https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=complianceowl https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=owlcompliance https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=owlcompliance
- solid_fuel 3mo ago
  That’s very often the case with these guys. No one can seriously look at the modern political landscape in the United States and seriously claim that both parties are effectively the same, or even that they both bear equal responsibility for the terrible state of government. The Republicans have been in the business of scrapping the US for parts since the 90’s, it’s just accelerating. At worst, the Democrats have been ineffective opposition and overly captured by corporate interests.
  - complianceowll 3mo ago
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    - solid_fuel 3mo ago
      What a truly pathetic life it must be, just lying about your politics on hacker fucking news because you know they’re so indefensible.
      - complianceowll 3mo ago
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- Sabinus 3mo ago
  But why is he obfuscating so much? What motivates one to lie about their own politics for so long?
  - complianceowll 3mo ago
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    - solid_fuel 3mo ago
      You are a liar, it has been demonstrated. If you feel such a shame about your beliefs because you really do understand deep down that they’re wrong and that you are sinning, you should repent. To continue to behave like you have been outs you as cowardly little worm.
      - complianceowll 3mo ago
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        cindyllm 3mo ago
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  - mindslight 3mo ago
    It's a cope, and it follows the dynamic reactionary talk radio has been using for decades - get people riled up about the system in general, cool them off just enough to go vote Republican, and then leverage their having made that choice to rationalize why it was somehow justified. Rinse and repeat. (I'm coming from a centrist libertarian position here, not a partisan one)
    - complianceowll 3mo ago
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- AlexeyBelov 3mo ago
  A true HN classic. Thank you.
complianceowll 3mo ago
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- solid_fuel 3mo ago
  > I took a look in the mirror and loved what I saw. I bet you did, Narcissus.
  - complianceowll 3mo ago
    Bud, it's "narcissist". And all one has to be to love what one sees in the mirror is grateful and confident in who one is. I completely understand how that would be foreign to you.
    - solid_fuel 3mo ago
      > Bud, it's "narcissist". And all one has to be to love what one sees in the mirror is grateful and confident in who one is. I completely understand how that would be foreign to you. God, it must hurt being that stupid. Like seriously, how do you even put your shoes on without strangling yourself? Do they even trust you with scissors? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(mythology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(mythology)
      - complianceowll 3mo ago
        > Like seriously, how do you even put your shoes on without strangling yourself? Because I'm not you: a grown man who is 45+ years old and never matured; never learned to emotionally self regulate; and has a constant chip on his shoulder, to the point that you use the very limited profile space to tell the world that you don't care about whatever crypto coin they're into. Do you not see yourself? Do you not see the perpetual bitterness and rage that emanates from your person? That is who you are, Solid Fuel. That is what you are. Insults is all you have to cope with the cold hard reality of what I am confronting you with: a mirror.
        3mo ago

sculper 3mo ago

Worth noting that the commenter you're replying to is only LARPing as a centrist. The comment history of his other (now-banned) accounts are directly at odds with some of the "truths" he claims to have realized. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=complianceowl https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=complianceowl https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=owlcompliance https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=owlcompliance

solid_fuel 3mo ago
That’s very often the case with these guys. No one can seriously look at the modern political landscape in the United States and seriously claim that both parties are effectively the same, or even that they both bear equal responsibility for the terrible state of government. The Republicans have been in the business of scrapping the US for parts since the 90’s, it’s just accelerating. At worst, the Democrats have been ineffective opposition and overly captured by corporate interests.
- complianceowll 3mo ago
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  - solid_fuel 3mo ago
    What a truly pathetic life it must be, just lying about your politics on hacker fucking news because you know they’re so indefensible.
    - complianceowll 3mo ago
      [flagged]
Sabinus 3mo ago
But why is he obfuscating so much? What motivates one to lie about their own politics for so long?
- complianceowll 3mo ago
  [flagged]
  - solid_fuel 3mo ago
    You are a liar, it has been demonstrated. If you feel such a shame about your beliefs because you really do understand deep down that they’re wrong and that you are sinning, you should repent. To continue to behave like you have been outs you as cowardly little worm.
    - complianceowll 3mo ago
      [flagged]
      - cindyllm 3mo ago
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- mindslight 3mo ago
  It's a cope, and it follows the dynamic reactionary talk radio has been using for decades - get people riled up about the system in general, cool them off just enough to go vote Republican, and then leverage their having made that choice to rationalize why it was somehow justified. Rinse and repeat. (I'm coming from a centrist libertarian position here, not a partisan one)
  - complianceowll 3mo ago
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AlexeyBelov 3mo ago
A true HN classic. Thank you.

complianceowll 3mo ago

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solid_fuel 3mo ago
> I took a look in the mirror and loved what I saw. I bet you did, Narcissus.
- complianceowll 3mo ago
  Bud, it's "narcissist". And all one has to be to love what one sees in the mirror is grateful and confident in who one is. I completely understand how that would be foreign to you.
  - solid_fuel 3mo ago
    > Bud, it's "narcissist". And all one has to be to love what one sees in the mirror is grateful and confident in who one is. I completely understand how that would be foreign to you. God, it must hurt being that stupid. Like seriously, how do you even put your shoes on without strangling yourself? Do they even trust you with scissors? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(mythology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(mythology)
    - complianceowll 3mo ago
      > Like seriously, how do you even put your shoes on without strangling yourself? Because I'm not you: a grown man who is 45+ years old and never matured; never learned to emotionally self regulate; and has a constant chip on his shoulder, to the point that you use the very limited profile space to tell the world that you don't care about whatever crypto coin they're into. Do you not see yourself? Do you not see the perpetual bitterness and rage that emanates from your person? That is who you are, Solid Fuel. That is what you are. Insults is all you have to cope with the cold hard reality of what I am confronting you with: a mirror.
      - 3mo ago