Substanceless empty comment that has likely been copy-posted by Mildred under a pro-vaccination video on YouTube, written into the newspaper letters page about climate change by Capt. Black, and in the tabloid news article comments section about immigration.
Do I really have to waste my life pointing out that you are making solely an ad-hom comment, while whining about ad-hom comments?
It's not ad-hominem to say a bunch of comments are ad-hominem (or if it is, how do you characterize your comment?).
I'll concede my second remark was unhelpful, since such remarks are best expressed in private with friends (if at all). It wasn't intended as an argument or a personal attack... more as a lament.
but it is ad-hom to say the authors of those comments are "unable to argue logically", "unable to see things from other positions". I didn't say you are unable to post better comments, I'm just annoyed that you didn't.
That you and the parent comment, and the sibling comment, are doing the "pat ourselves on the back for being cleverer than the morons posting here with THEIR stupid ideas and THEY don't even know we're laughing at them! :D :D :D" empty back-patting which can be seen by people on all sides of all kinds of topics. In almost every thread on 4chan, in many Usenet discussions of certain programming languages, on YouTube vaccination videos posted by anti-vax people, in the comments of tabloid news articles on immigrants. Atheists are patting themselves on the back about how they are laughing at all the religious people, and religious people are patting themselves on the back about how they see the truth and the idiots will only learn when they are burning in Hell.
Lament that this type of thing is endemic on the internet, used to be scarce on HN, and now isn't.
Substanceless empty comment that has likely been copy-posted by Mildred under a pro-vaccination video on YouTube, written into the newspaper letters page about climate change by Capt. Black, and in the tabloid news article comments section about immigration.
Do I really have to waste my life pointing out that you are making solely an ad-hom comment, while whining about ad-hom comments?
"they lack substance"
"they lack the ability"
"educated under woke teachers"
"unable to see"
"unable to argue logically"
ad-hom, ad-hom, fantasy, ad-hom, ad-hom.
It's not ad-hominem to say a bunch of comments are ad-hominem (or if it is, how do you characterize your comment?).
I'll concede my second remark was unhelpful, since such remarks are best expressed in private with friends (if at all). It wasn't intended as an argument or a personal attack... more as a lament.
but it is ad-hom to say the authors of those comments are "unable to argue logically", "unable to see things from other positions". I didn't say you are unable to post better comments, I'm just annoyed that you didn't.
That you and the parent comment, and the sibling comment, are doing the "pat ourselves on the back for being cleverer than the morons posting here with THEIR stupid ideas and THEY don't even know we're laughing at them! :D :D :D" empty back-patting which can be seen by people on all sides of all kinds of topics. In almost every thread on 4chan, in many Usenet discussions of certain programming languages, on YouTube vaccination videos posted by anti-vax people, in the comments of tabloid news articles on immigrants. Atheists are patting themselves on the back about how they are laughing at all the religious people, and religious people are patting themselves on the back about how they see the truth and the idiots will only learn when they are burning in Hell.
Lament that this type of thing is endemic on the internet, used to be scarce on HN, and now isn't.
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