Comment by fasbiner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Invasions_by_Great_Br...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni...

This kind of historical blindness and hysterical hypocrisy has never ended well.

Is HN becoming a place where we should expect people to lie to us and promote trivially disprovably rationales in order to foment cultural and racial hatreds based on current political conveniences?

"Never believe they are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. By giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert."