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0 pointsSideburnsOfDoom4y ago0 comments

I can't say what the author is like, as I never heard of them before today. I note what the rhetoric of this piece echoes very strongly, and no doubt deliberately.

I don't think that the "flavour of the month punchline" comment is in any way justified. It is neither.

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honkdaddy4y ago· 2 in thread

But the Hitler comparison is what you meant, no? What is the rhetoric of the piece that you're talking about?

SideburnsOfDoomOP4y ago

Since you ask, the phrases that I quoted are white nationalist and or Fascist (Neo- or old-school) thinking and imagery. I won't claim that it's all about one person's speaking style, that is reductive. The philosophy (such as it is) of those movements wasn't found there alone.

This guy gets it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29837954

Sorry to be "vague", I have no wish to be open to accusation (good faith or otherwise) regarding the site guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

smsm424y ago

So you know it's not OK to call people Nazi on this site, especially on extremely flimsy basis such as "he is financed by Peter Thiel" and "he talks about individual achievement". But you still do it. But since you're being coy about it and only "very very transparently hint" at it, it's completely OK. At least for you it's ok, because in this case the rules clearly do not apply.

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