We do. We send our tax dollars to help support the impoverished red states. ;-)
We ban accounts that do this repeatedly, regardless of which color the flames burn. Please don't do this again.
How is anything politically-related on this forum, supposedly for discussion of startups, not in some way inflammatory? What about the post itself? Not to mention that I and another user backed up my (yes, off-the-cuff) comment with references? I don't see how that 'perpetuates a flamewar'?
Vandalism is a rather strong word.
Feel free to ban this account. I can always make another if I decide there's any discussions worth participating in.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-s...
https://www.businessinsider.com/red-states-are-welfare-queen...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/04/democ...
Also, even if you don't believe it, it's not a strawman because it wasn't being attributed to someone else. Please try to balance out the random general-purpose rhetorical tricks with some actual facts or insight of your own next time.
https://www.apnews.com/2f83c72de1bd440d92cdbc0d3b6bc08c
https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the...
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/11/please-cut-th...
And speaking of rhetorical strategy, I don't know what it's called but the recent right wing way of speech as expressed by the person I was replying to is great:
>I've always hoped that states like Massachusetts, California and New York would do more to help the poor considering that they seem to have enough voter support to do that.
It's like getting their political agenda in there but trying to act as if they've always innocently been expressing concern and interest about this subject. So facetious and they think they're sly.
And I think the California government and many of its supposedly liberal citizens could do more as well. "Screw you, I got mine" applies to both sides.
Even better, we as a nation should be implementing all those and not just leaving it up to wealthy states.
Maybe don't accuse people of making strawman arguments when they merely repeated well known facts, then. That's not civil either.
More importantly, please stop posting flamebait to HN threads.