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Pointing out disinformation is a valuable thing to do, and well in the spirit of hacker news.



In his case, I would often call it "adding noise to the signal" and not "pointing out disinformation".


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When I read your comment, what I see is "I checked through their comment history. They disagree with my political viewpoint, so I'm going to use the popular talking points from my in-group to attack them."

I glanced through your comment history as well, and I'm convinced that you are a lot smarter than that, and can add more to the conversation.


Looking through your comment history it seems like you use a thesaurus on a few posts so that you can defend people like him in other posts.


What about my comment history?!


> popular talking points from my in-group to attack them

Pointing out that we're currently being de facto ruled by a circle of wealthy billionaires and millionaires is not a "talking point". This comes across as projection.

> I'm convinced that you are a lot smarter than that

Thank you. I'm not sure what you're looking for me to add to the conversation however, I just plainly said what I saw, which was them to bat for several oligarchs who are currently making a mockery of our country.




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