The irony isn't lost on anyone, I see.

Perhaps you are being down-voted based upon the contempt with which you expressed your opinion, rather than the quality of your point.

I think you sound like you have a chip on your shoulder and you feel that armed with facts, your arguments should be persuasive but they're not. I don't have the ability to downvote, but perhaps that's why other people are doing so.

Probably your comment was downvoted because it went for drama over substance.

On HN, please don't complain about getting downvoted or about what you think the downvotes demonstrate. This just adds noise, which is why HN has two rules about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html