Comment by FrustratedMonky | Hacker News Reader

Comment by FrustratedMonky | Hacker News Reader

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FrustratedMonky

Its because you sound like someone living in a bubble. There is very similar tone across maga apologists. And it just gets tiring to engage with.

1. Someone will take the bait and quote some facts.

2. The maga apologists will say 'fake news'. I don't accept those sources.

3. There will be some back and forth without convincing anybody.

4. Maybe some speculation that this is a right wing bot.

5. Eventually the argument devolves down to, Nothing means anything, nothing is fact, nothing can be proven, the moon is flat, we live in an illusion.

I personally think it is because of Brandolini's law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

Your post sounds like it will go down the typical right wing rabbit hole. Trying to cite evidence against their infinite bullshit is losing battle. It takes a lot of energy, and that is the goal, to tire people out.

the original commenter is correct in that at the time of commenting he was downvoted without a valid argument transaction having completed. i dont believe that tone policing has any effect in this instance, outside of virtue signalling

A transaction can't complete if one were never opened.

I am wrapping this comment thread in a finally and returning.

its not clear whether youre ramping up the virtue signalling, being polite, or trying to be the argumentative strongman. if you care about the way you look to me, the former and latter would probably be my perception of you. out of good faith i shall follow the middle option and execute the jump instruction myself.

It is not just 'tone police', or signaling.

I have watched a enough of Fox News to know they are not reporting, on a number of subjects. And so people that only consume right wing news, are in a bubble, and their arguments do follow similar patterns based on that ignorance.

My response was what it was, just seeing the pattern presenting itself early. Why waste more time on engaging with BS? Arguing with True Believers with facts and citations, goes nowhere.

to me it sounds like youre too weak of an argumenter to crack deep programming, and would rather throw the towel in early than have an attempt. sure man, that's your call. just saying it looks super weak to throw the towel in, may as well not get in the ring.

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