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The comment is just derision by someone who respects the authority of conventional power and is unsympathetic to someone having a fundamentally different but co
by zethraeus 12y ago
The comment is just derision by someone who respects the authority of conventional power and is unsympathetic to someone having a fundamentally different but consistent stance.
;)
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- zethraeus 12y agoHuh. I don't think I've ever before offended someone else on the internet enough to make them find and wave the shared last name in my face.
- dang 12y agoYeah, that's out of line. Appropriately, users killed the comment by flagging it (and the poster subsequently deleted it). All: when you see a comment that is truly bad for Hacker News, you can flag it by clicking 'link' to go to that comment's page and then clicking 'flag'. We monitor these flags and take action based on them, and over the last few months have slowly introduced a system where enough user flags will kill comments. In such cases you should see "[flagkilled]" if you have showdead turned on in your profile.
- johansch 12y agoYou are attacking your perception of me, not my argument. The ";)" is weak cop-out.
- zethraeus 12y agoYou're right, it was intended to be read humorously. The argument I alluded to is that there is an internally consistent viewpoint in which the government action at hand is genuinely corrupt and supporting crony capitalism. In this worldview, one that I think there's a strong chance that Sunde adheres to, he's not being whiney, he's taking rational actions.