Thanks for both your original and resubmission. This really made me think about "my own opinions", which I've started to realize are often just other people's opinions (often that of the elite press) hoisted upon me and tricked into thinking are my own.

With much of modern intellectualism simply being an adoption of other people's ideas and beliefs without actual independent consideration, this was a refreshing perspective.

Glad you like it. I think people should really spend more time challenging their deepest held beliefs to find out the truth, or lack thereof behind them.

It was not removed; discussion is at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13196641

It was (I guess) briefly flagged, I created this in that interval, still seems absent from the front page.

Can't delete this that I can see, oh well.

Users flagged it (likely without actually reading the post itself, since the title is clickbaity but the post is balanced), and others (including myself) upvoted it until it became Unflagged is all.

People here will downvote things that dont come across as interesting.

Also, you label things as "fake news", defend pizzagate, and your views, particularly this one, make you come across as a crony of the political establishment you came from. Why do you expect hacker news to love you?

I point out fake news, suggest that possible crimes should be investigated and I am not part of nor a crony of any political establishment. Are you suggesting that truth, law and order and having honest, transparent and competent government are not things that hacker news should love?

Ok, point taken. Merry Christmas.

for what it's worth, this article was posted about a week ago, already.