Comment by tnone
8 years ago
Telling them their strategy is unacceptable should be enough.
Do you want to fire up the ovens too? Oh nevermind, I see you're a self declared "commie feminist", wrong end of the horse shoe, my bad.
8 years ago
Telling them their strategy is unacceptable should be enough.
Do you want to fire up the ovens too? Oh nevermind, I see you're a self declared "commie feminist", wrong end of the horse shoe, my bad.
You started this flamewar and then went around the other side and started another. That sort of thing will get you banned here. So will generic ideological trolling, which you bring in here completely extraneously.
Please don't do any of these things on HN again. Instead, if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; otherwise please don't comment until you do.
You do know 'purge' has other meanings aside from genocide right? Or is it more convenient for your performative outrage if you pretend otherwise?
Please keep flamewars and online rage off Hacker News. We all know what the callout/shaming culture has wrought on the internet, and the idea of this place is to try to be different. You've perpetuated it in this thread as much as the other person whom you've scornfully criticized for it. That's the way these things usually go.
As for 'purge', if you use a politically charged word like that next to a rage word like 'fuckers', the internet dynamics are predictable. Therefore, the fault for the flamewar about communism and genocide the thread ended up in lies largely with your comment. We can argue in general about words and contexts (and sure, you're not wrong), but the point is irrelevant because the current context has such well-known properties, like dynamite and dry forests.
Could you clarify which meaning you had in mind in your original usage?
Presumably what was meant was kicking them out of the open source community and not killing them.
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To be fair, if one is a self-described "commie", there's only one possible interpretation. Maybe avoid associating yourself with genocidal regimes? Even as a joke (I sure hope it's a joke)? Maybe?
Communism isn't genocidal. You should read up on what it actually is instead of relying on pro-capitalism propoganda. "Somebody died because Stalin/Mao" holds no candle compared to capitalism's "somebody died because housing, hospitalizing, and feeding the poor wasn't profitable".
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