Comment by dryarzeg
3 hours ago
> By the way, nearly all your comments on HN are about politics and all trying to sow dissent on Western (and especially European) democracies.
Disclaimer first: I'm not trying to protect him and I'm not tied to him in any possible way. But since when constantly expressing your own opinion (that's what I assume given the age of the account; maybe I'm wrong, but this seems rather like a person than a bot) is a deliberately malicious activity (as implied by your "trying to sow dissent" expression)? If their opinion doesn't match yours, it doesn't mean that they're evil or something similar. It just means that your views are different.
Talking continually about politics is against the HN guidelines.
Politics and tech are basically intertwined at this point. Tech is also intertwined with Geo-politics, tax policies, mental health, and a bunch of other issues.
One cannot talk about tech without talking inevitably of the second or third order effects that derive from it which is again almost inevitably linked to politics either in the US or elsewhere.
I appreciate the support but I am not surprised.
Even on HN there is been a surge of users who instead of defending their arguments or positions on certain sensitive topics such as the EU prefer to simply smear the opposition.
I write about the EU a lot because I live there and I am especially interested in what the EU is doing regarding tech.
I am especially critical of policies that target my private life and it irks me to no end that some people will claim loud a and clear that I should simply be grateful for what the EU is doing when the EU's actions in a lot of matters that I care about have either been deceptive and/or completely went against the supposed principles that the EU is supposed to have.
Calling out blatant lying and bot propaganda isn't "smearing the opposition".
It's disgusting that people run here, write utter complete lying bullshit and then you attack folks that say "hey, this is complete bullshit".
Be better.