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Your response reeks of privilege and ignorance. If we put aside the ad-hominem attack on the author, which has a record that speaks for itself, you really shou
by yuvadam 13y ago
Your response reeks of privilege and ignorance.
If we put aside the ad-hominem attack on the author, which has a record that speaks for itself, you really should look up cases in the past that perfectly exemplify a surveillance society that is prevalent in Israel - most of you which you can find on said author's blog which you are attempting to discredit.
- cema 13y agoWell, it looks to me as though internal Israeli politics has spilled out to the pages of Hacker News. It's okay, happens to internal American politics all the time.
- herge 13y ago> the ad-hominem attack on the author It's not an ad-hominem attack. He stated that the author is a clown because his article is a joke (which he argued for in the paragraph above it), and not that his article is a joke because he is a clown. The more correct term you should have used is 'rude'.
- ianstallings 13y agoThe logic police never sleep.
- nir 13y agoIf I'm ignorant, feel free to enlighten me. "Clown" was not a good choice for word, but the author's claim that Israel is comparable to 1984 is a joke and his referrals to traffic cameras etc are ridiculous. I'm not trying to discredit him personally, his own writing does that. What particularly irks me is that he took the opportunist route of posting it in English, knowing there's always an eager audience for any hyperbole on Israel. (Edit: I can see why my original comment was taken as ad hominem, and apologize. Also I want to thank you for your post on setting up Heroku with Flask/pgSql which helped me a few months ago. It sucks that the first time we have any interaction is this argument. Sorry.)
- lostlogin 13y agoIf it wasn't in English, its unlikely there would be much discussion here. I could be wrong however...