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Comment by bitlax | Hacker News Reader

The irony of a Rolling Stone writer's concern with how one's actions can affect others.

As a Canadian who doesn't really consume Rolling Stone as a news source, I'm left to wonder:

1. Is this a "fake news" person, who refers to all journalism that isn't Breitbart/Fox as "the MSM" or some such?

2. Is this person still holding a personal grudge from when Rolling Stone left Rush off their best bands of all time list?

3. Are they snarkily referencing some incident(s) where Rolling Stone abused their position/punched down but can't be bothered to link to it?

The irony of a hacker news post concerning a rolling stone writers concern with how one's actions can affect others.

[HN is very interesting, but it's also a fairly reliable source of some extremely inhumane and self-centered comments.]

The thing that really gets me about HN comments is the lack of plausible deniability for stupid comments. People say dumb stuff on 2^N-chan and you can just assume they're trolls trying to rile up the extremeists. People say dumb stuff on Reddit and you can chalk it up to them being teenagers without life experience to have a more reality based opinion. People say dumb stuff on HN and you can't really make up any excuse for them because they have "Senior Engineer at X" and a link to a personal website that shows they're not an idiot or a deadbeat and you're left wondering how people so smart can be so stupid. Of course it's well known that most people don't know much about things outside their area(s) of expertise but it's still frustrating nonetheless because you'd expect smart people to know this and either not run their mouth or qualify their statements.

Rationality is Bounded - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded_rationality

The internet does a bad job of signalling that.

If somebody says something that makes you think they’re an idiot or a deadbeat, believe them.

Have you checked the Presidential twitter feed? Stupidity is fashionable. Stupidity is popular. Stupidity is loyalty.

(Other factions are also perfectly capable of this, e.g. the leaked Labour internal documents, but the right are really making a performance out of it these days)

Sorry, where's the irony? I'm not familiar with what reputation Rolling Stone has.

Probably a reference to this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rape_on_Campus

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