You started a wretched flamewar with this comment, which broke the site guidelines badly and predictably led to worse. Then you perpetuated it. This is criminal negligence if not arson, and we ban accounts for this kind of thing—especially now, after the hellfires this site went through in the last couple of weeks. We've raised the bar and are banning more accounts for abusing the site this way. I'm not going to ban you because your comment history shows that you've mostly been commenting about other things. But please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, keep the intended spirit of the site in mind, and don't do it again.
Yea fair enough. My main point is that the media will now cover it as everything Biden says being "unifying" rather than every word Trump ever uttered, which was "divisive". Even when they say the same thing.
I think a lot of people are more interesting in helping the half of the country that supported Trump and QAnon walk itself back from the crazy positions they've talked themselves into so we can sit back down at the table and get through dinner.
> I think a lot of people are more interesting in helping the half of the country that supported Trump and QAnon walk itself back from the crazy positions they've talked themselves into
It's not just the right that has walked itself into crazy positions. The country is in need of some serious regression to the mean on both sides.
"Both sides" nonsense. Show me anything from the left that begins to approach believing that there's a secret cabal of baby-eating satan worshippers running a pedophile ring from the basement of a pizza joint.
Critical Race Theory has its problems but it's not an elaborate conspiracy theory clutching at random tidbits of news and numerology and obscure messageboard posting and constructing a massive, world-ending conspiracy out of them.
I mean, it's a cute comparison if you squint, but there's far less craziness to describing the reality of racism than describing all of the political class as baby-eating vampires.
The only place I've ever heard of CRT is from Trump and from Fox News. In the rest of America, we're trying to teach people to be sensitive to their unconscious racial biases, and to be aware of how race affects people's opportunities. This simple and rational thinking was seized upon by the far right as an example of hating whites.
With all due respect, I'm not a Trump supporter but I am the most conservative person in my family, and I'm not the one who was talking about guillotining people I don't like at the dinner table last year.
I would prefer the left wing people in my family not be enabled to shift the blame for all their shitty behavior the last 4 years onto Trump thanks.
> Seems like a pretty thinly veiled swipe at Trump to be honest.
Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. But if you don't think that guy (not even gonna use his name) deserves some serious criticism after the last 4 years and especially after the events of 1/6/2021... well, I'm just not sure here's any way to reach you.
The left spent four years focusing on the absolute worst aspects of a man, and refusing to give him credit for the several things he accomplished that were actually worthwhile.
That's a recipe for an unhealthy relationship, and it's also something you only get better at with practice.
I think they did more psychological harm to themselves over it than he ever could have.
You can't post like this to HN, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. We're trying to have a forum that doesn't burn itself to a hellfire crisp. Scorched earth is not interesting.
This place is fragile and vulnerable. Please contribute to protecting it, not destroying it. I'm sure you wouldn't dump motor oil in a mountain lake or something like that, so please don't do the equivalent here.
> What's wrong did someone possibly criticize your dear leader? Wouldn't want that now, would we?
Objectively Trump is not a good person. That doesn't mean he wasn't a useful blunt instrument.
Many people on the right gave him far more credit than he deserved. But a lot of that was reaction to nearly everyone on the left spewing nothing but hate about him his entire term.
He's done and gone and won't be coming back.
The thing the left should actually be worried about is what happens when the next person comes along that also has the right song and dance to get elected, but once there actually knows how to govern?
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, and don't post personal attacks. These rules apply regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are.
Politely, who the heck would write, much less put in the practice of reciting, a several minutes-long poem for a thinly veiled swipe at a political figure? Amanda could've just spat out a hot take on twitter if she wanted that, same as everyone else who wants to make swipes.
And I think presuming it's nothing more than a swipe makes no sense, occam's razor style. There's no reason why she would put that much effort (a several minutes long poem, plus the practice of recital).
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological warfare and flamewar hell. Tossing in a Molotov cocktail of nationalistic flamebait is also seriously not cool.
Edit: you've done this kind of thing more than once lately. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of what they're battling for or against—we have to, because it destroys what this site is supposed to exist for. I'm not going to ban you because your account has mostly been posting good comments. On the other hand, mostly-not-exploding-bombs is not sufficient. If you'd please review the site guidelines and be more mindful of the intended spirit of the site going forward, we'd be grateful. Perhaps you don't owe your enemies better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.
This is the sort of comment I'm talking about upthread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25862817) when I say that you perpetuated a wretched flamewar. Seriously not cool. Please stop and don't restart.
