Might be worth addressing both posters directly as the initial ideological hijack Tech-Noir was rebutting seems to have missed the point that neither sides of that flame-war belong on HN.
You're right, I am opposed to communism, but I am not an ideologue.
I posit that painting both anti-communists and communists as ideologues and rejecting both arguments is a false equivalence since communism is an extreme.
To provide another example it's similar to saying "Anti-Nazis and Nazis are both ideologues, neither of their arguments should be listened to. "
Contrary to what Tech-Noir is slinging, I’m not a mod or trying to act like one. At this point I’m just flagging and moving on and wishing that the article posted didn’t trigger so many people’s pro/anti-communism kneejerk.
> Contrary to what Tech-Noir is slinging, I’m not a mod or trying to act like one.
I didn't claim you were a mod, I said you were effecting the tone of a mod ("Please don't..."), which you were.
> [I'm] wishing that the article posted didn’t trigger so many people’s so many people’s pro/anti-communism kneejerk.
At the time I replied to you, you and gnarbarian made up half the comments here, yet neither you were discussing the article. Your own posts were simply about the Holocaust, Holodomor, Mao, Hitler, etc.
The entire thread from gnarbarian's original post on should be nuked.
