Hacker news is peak contrarian. If your stance was that this merger was incredible, your replies would be entirely about competition lol.
In addition to out-and-out opposition or agreement that sounds vaguely oppositional, a comment might call for a pedantic annotation, a tangential aside or book recommendation.
sudo !!You know what they say about things that aren't falsifiable, they're definitely correct!!
Ah, the ol' Hitchens's movie night: "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed with popcorn".