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Comment by TheJoeMan | Hacker News Reader

Couldn’t make it through the first paragraph. Maybe leave politics out of your tech blog.

Is it really so wrong to include politics in talking about the modern world?

It's likely a preliminary filter to the audience. "If you don't think qanon is a problem and don't want to hear me talk about reasons why people believe it, stop reading".

Personally, I don't think it's a problem. But I skimmed a little farther and it looks like this chap is trying to stem what he believes to be a wave of misinformation.

I think societies that obsess over misinformation will likely collapse eventually and I'm not particularly interested in fragile societies so unless we get extinction out of this I'm not wedded to the idea that individual people can save us all.

> It's likely a preliminary filter to the audience. "If you don't think qanon is a problem and don't want to hear me talk about reasons why people believe it, stop reading".

Meanwhile, the world's increasing complexity is exactly why people turn to explanations like QAnon. To help them grapple and make sense of it.

There is nobody who needs more to understand that nobody is driving!

Maybe don't get so offended if someone mentions Trump in a slightly negative way

Careful, HN doesn't like bad talking of Trump for some reason. They like to pretend that the way he acts is normal and acceptable for a person in such power.

Hint: it's not.

'On November 8th of 2016, half the country learned that everything they believed to be both true and obvious turned out to be wrong. The people who thought Trump had no chance of winning were under the impression they were smart people who understood their country, and politics, and how things work in general. When Trump won, they learned they were wrong. They were so very wrong that they reflexively (because this is how all brains work) rewrote the scripts they were seeing in their minds until it all made sense again. The wrong-about-everything crowd decided that the only way their world made sense, with their egos intact, is that either the Russians helped Trump win or there are far more racists in the country than they imagined, and he is their king. Those were the seeds of the two mass hysterias we witness today.'

I chuckled alot when I read this so thank you for the laughts. Its hilarious to go online today and hear all Trump supporters to scream “fraud” and trying to argue that it has to be fraud since Biden broke all possible records including number of votes, number of black votes etc. Its even more laughable since it comes from exactly the same people who like you claimed huge Trump 2016 victory and were proud Trump broke all the records.

What is the meaning of this reply in the context of the comment you're responding to?

Nice conspiracy theory.

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