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Comment by JeremyBanks | Hacker News Reader

Scott Adams is a seditious traitor supporting a coup. Let's not give him traffic.

"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On this site, let's try to avoid the online shaming culture. One of its properties is to link everything anybody ever said or did to the worst thing about them. If all we do is rush along the edges of that directed graph, discussion soon implodes into a high-activation-low-information state. That may be the game on much of the internet, but it's obviously not consistent with curious conversation, which is the mandate of this site, so please let's play a different game here.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=online%20shaming%20by%3Adang&s...

(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25279168 and marked it off topic.)

This is a good policy in general, but this is one of the most pivotal moments in American history, so much is at stake, and a line must be drawn. The YC community in particular, is full of people who are complicit or explicitly supportive of these efforts, and they need to be shown that they are not welcome.

Except, that they are welcome. Y Combinator has fostered a community with a lot of anti-democratic sentiments.

It's sick, and history will look upon you all with pity and contempt. You should resign and get out.

Poe's law is at work here for me. I have no idea if you're sarcastic or joking around because there are a lot of crazy people that actually would believe something this ridiculous.

OP's overblown language aside, Adams holds some pretty ridiculous opinions.

https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/133412978500655923...

From a quick look at his twitter, he seems fully on-board the “election fraud” conspiracy train.

As best I can tell, everyone on that train is 99.9% full of shit and acting in a pretty dangerous manner. I’m no history buff, but I have never heard of any previous presidential election where utterly depraved lies and the filthiest of propaganda were so prevalent, especially coming from people in the highest positions of power.

Let me moderate the radical's message above:

Scott Adams went fully, publicly, into the Trumpian regime's alternate reality. It is a disappointment, to say the least. But using the t-word should be reserved for extreme scenarios, including some current politicians in American politics, though I will refrain from naming them.

Believe it's a reference to Mike Flynn endorsing the idea that Trump declare martial law and suspend the constitution to rerun the election.

Im not sure either, but his latest post seems to be leaning towards there was election fraud.

titled:

Episode 1205 Scott Adams: I Tell You How Democrats Pulled off the Perfect (Alleged!) Crime, With Whiteboard

with hashtags such as ElectionFraud.

Posted December 2, 2020 in: #CNN Fake News, #Doctrine of Laches, #Election Fraud, #Joe Biden, #politics, #president trump, #Project Veritas, #Sarcasm Guppy, #Scott Adams, #ted cruz, #The Fourth Turning, #tucker carlson

Yeah, he's a Trump supporter. That he labels this past election as 'fraud' is 'meh'. There are plenty of people (on the right, but especially on the left) that call out election fraud (from voter suppression, to illegals voting, to Russians hacking voting machines etc.) after every election.

Where is this coup support?

Scott Adams has long been an opponent of the theory of evolution. That seems considerably more wrongheaded than any view he may hold on election fraud.

It is unfortunately true, look it up.

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