You won't buy such a cable twice because it will burn down your house and risk killing you, hence, you're not buying it a second time as a dead person. Obviously no flaws in that logic.
I know the HN guidelines have had a "no joke" recommendation but it seems rather humorless (obviously) and can deny some form of humanity, the latter of which is rather unreasonable.
Maybe you still get a chuckle, but after the same tired strawmans get posted over and over again it gets annoying, similar to all the low effort comments on reddit like "username checks out", "RIP my inbox", "came here to say this", or any number of the common copypastas.
>as well as legitimate criticism of people who unironically hold similar beliefs to the one parodied.
Strawmans are not "legitimate criticism".