I read a bunch of right-wing comments on HN (including ones making good arguments), the reports of left bias on HN are greatly overstated.
Any slogan yelling should get downvoted by HN standards regardless of partisan bias.
An Eat the Rich comment that includes a quality recipe, however, should be rewarded with tolerance if not upvotes.
Are you assuming it's a call to kill them rather than a plea to not waste the protein?
The thing many people fail to realise about the Fore people in PNG was that their cannibalism was a mortuary rite of reverance for highly valued in group members that weren't killed for sustenance.
I can quote a paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2581657/ or simply say I learnt that first hand 40+ years back as child tagging along on supply runs with Mike Alpers (see Author list).
Now .. given you might have gained a snippet of new infomation, how do you feel about upvoting this comment about eating high value members of society?
That's a poor comment from yourself- I'd hoped for better.
I'm completely serious about the facts here:
* You don't have to kill people in order to eat them,
* I've had cannibals as babysitters in PNG as a child,
* I'm much the same age as Mike Alpers own children who I know from my days in university.
etc.
You claim to not be engaged with such topics because <<violence>> and I've quite accurately pointed out that violence isn't a neccesity here.
Why, exactly, are you having a little tantrum here?
If you want to convince me that you're earnestly trying to have a real conversation, being insulting isn't going to help.
You advocated for raising that as a thread topic.
I'm familar with several dictionares, nothing I have said has been false.
Be explicit - what exactly do you consider to be sophistry here?
We can talk about prion disease and its relation to eating brain matter (the Fore and mad cow disease), the history of funerary practices, the European fad for eating ground up mummies, the UK practice of eating parts of executed criminals, etc.
All of these relate to the topic that you suggested .. and the topic you apparently wish to tap out on when faced with someone happy to take it on.
What bait?
> I wasn't born yesterday.
It appears to my eye that you bought the attitude to what was a good faith discussion from my side.
It was a missed opportunity to discuss an unpopular subject.
I suggest you return to this sometime later and reread this entire exchange.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat_the_rich
> "Eat the rich" is a political slogan associated with anti-capitalism and left-wing politics. It may variously be used as a metaphor for class conflict, a demand for wealth redistribution, or a literal call to violence. The phrase is commonly attributed to political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from a quote first popularized during the French Revolution: "When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich".
Eat the Poor: A Modest Proposal for Donald Trump to be President of the United States:
https://www.amazon.nl/-/en/Mistress-Harley/dp/1535229845
Remember, you're the one who introduced the brilliant idea of eating the rich into this conversation, and you're the one who replied even after you said you wouldn't, so you not only took the bait, you baited the hook with deliciously irresistible rich human flesh! Now that's some fine anthropophagic trolling!
This book looks like satire. I have never met or heard of anyone who discusses "political cannibalism" literally. I think it's vanishingly rare.
> You're the one who introduced the brilliant idea of eating the rich into this conversation
I will not relitigate this. See above.
> You're the one who replied even after you said you wouldn't
Tend to your own knitting.
I'm a little confused why you took the time to respond to an old thread during the course of what looks like digging up receipts on a troll (which I have no complaint with, I agree with what you said about them). This is ancient history in my book.
Is there something specific you'd like me to take away from this? Did you just not like the cut off my jib? I honestly can't tell, I'm getting a chaotic neutral vibe.
ETA: I see, you feel that I am a troll, and you want to call me out for trolling. Well, noted. I disagree but it's not my proudest set of comments, I can't fault you for thinking ill of me because of them.
...I just can't eat a whole one.
It could possibly be such a plea if the implication is that their death is already imminent. Which means it's still advocating their downfall.
This isn't about cannibalism and your comments here are a waste of everyone's time.
The Cannibal Cookbook: Human meat recipes from around the world
https://www.amazon.nl/-/en/Nico-Claux/dp/B08SGR2W6M
[1] Paraphrased from The Reluctant Cannibal:
Also there is no left bias. There is a progressive bias. Not exactly the same
When I see political comments get flagged, it's usually because they said something explicitly offensive or insulting. They'll sign of with an edit attacking downvoters, say something insulting about their political opponents, or reference a conspiracy theory. That will reliably get you flagged regardless of the position you are advocating.