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Comment by vonklaus | Hacker News Reader

Look, this was 100% Russia. 17 government departments have certified this was Russia. This has Russian fingerprints all over it.

Edit: man, this got unpopular. Curious if people dislike the sarcasm, or the sentiment of regular unfounded claims Russia is responsible-- at a gov't level, for major "hacking" transgressions.

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I appreciate the sneaky attempt at political dialog after the past few days of in your face flame wars.

I am not trying to start a flame war, just curious why the 2 jokes about Russian hackers being the origin of breaches are being heavily downvoted. I would assume people think they aren't clever or funny, but hopefully not because they disagree that Russia seems to be the catch-all scapegoat right now.

It doesn't matter if people think they're clever or funny, a core tenet of HN is that you downvote cute jokes so that they don't eat all the real discussion like they do on Reddit.

It is a semi-noob illusion that satire and irony-- which underscore & catalyse discussion about relevant and important issues; should be reserved for Reddit. Often, satire is used when it may be difficult to confront an issue directly/the issue itself (or discussion) could be unpopular.

My account is older than yours.

Likely because they don't add substantively to the topic conversation and are distracting given discussions going on in other threads.

Simple really, joke that is not adding anything to the discussion is not appreciated here.

Dang I was being sarcastic myself, sorry.

I think it's maybe just that this isn't Reddit.

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