We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10101653 and marked it off-topic, since it was a generic tangent that led, as so often happens, to a flamewar.

It happened elsewhere in this thread as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10103364. The end state of that one was Hitler, the end state of this one was jingoism. There aren't many end states.

This subthread turned so pathetic that I wonder if we should create overflow pages for these. The bottom of a regular thread seems too good for them.