You broke the site guidelines egregiously here. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't do it again.

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If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting to HN, we'd appreciate it.

This kind of comment is not appropriate for hacker news, if you are really worried send an email as explained in the guidelines:

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I was also called an "Iraq and Vietnam shill" by similar types before those wars.