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0 pointsben_w3y ago0 comments

Did the thread drift without me noticing again? I thought this thread was about cultural differences between parts of America[0] rather than who has power inside it?

[0] a topic about which I know basically nothing, as I’ve only visited the USA for a total of 4 months total and not lived in it properly, and while that was both east and west coast and covered 8 states, it was mostly spent in the company of a literal self-described anarcho-communist Green Party activist who I strongly suspect isn’t even vaguely representative of any part of the USA.

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holdonasec23y ago

This thread drifted the second ‘engineeringwoke’ (lol) responded to it and misconstrued my point so hard that it’s blatantly intentional.

The vitriol shared (i.e., that I need to “read a textbook for the love of god”) simply for advocating for understanding one another and pointing out that we’re not that dissimilar from the EU, despite less history, is kind of proving my point about people being snide assholes for absolutely no reason. It’s exactly the bitterness I’m highlighting to see people so keen to win an argument that they assume you’re uneducated because they disagree with you, and I guess it’s surprising to get it back on what I figured would be a universally agreeable opinion (that we should all chill out and appreciate our differences).

What a trainwreck of a response chain. Good lord. I didn’t say left or right once. I was alluding to the issues faced by people in different geographies which has absolutely nothing to do with politics nor identity politics. For example, water availability is a major concern in California. It isn’t in Missouri.

How ironic to advocate for understanding one another, apparently fail to communicate that point, and get put in my place for daring to dream.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31251524

Funny that advice only applies to others

engineeringwoke3y ago

Who are you talking to? Why do you have two accounts? It's fun to speak my mind on an anonymous board, sorry if I hurt your feelings

holdonasec33y ago

You didn’t. Don’t worry, I can spot an advanced persistent troll when I see one. You still have a little 8kun on you that you forgot to shake off before you rolled that HN account. You’re not that good, either, because really I left that comment partially to smoke out that you’re refreshing old threads constantly just wanting your opinion to be loved. Satisfying to be right.

That’s why I talked past you. You’re irrelevant and transparent in your motivations, and a smarter site would have already flagged you for stirring a political flame war and stoking racial and socioeconomic divisions with nothing clever or unique to add to it. I read the troll right away. (Tip: You’ve encountered a better one, as evidenced by your comment.)

How precious, you lived in Europe for four years and run your mouth like an enlightened world traveler. You made sure everyone knows that, too, like it’s some kind of mark on your resume and somehow dismisses your arrogant American perspective of explaining the world to the world. Meanwhile, some of us got out of Soviet Hungary and have been to more countries than you have states, and still believe the world can be better. Crazy, I know. Hard to understand from the keyboard cavalry.

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