I don't agree; it was a cross-examiney question, which is likely to feel like an attack even if it's carefully phrased, and the implicit point was obviously partisan. If you didn't intend it that way, then you needed to do a better job of disambiguating your intent. There are lots of ways to do that, but if you don't do it, a comment like this will have inflammatory effects on the thread whether you intended that or not.

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As for Russian propaganda, that isn't remotely representative of the forum. You may be falling prey to the bias that causes negative data points to stand out more (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), as well as the bias that causes internet users to feel that other commenters are foreign agents, astroturfers, spies, shills, bots, etc. On the latter, see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... If anyone wants an in-depth explanation, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27398725 is one of many.