My recent sporadic comments history contains comments in weightlifting, cyber-truck, climate etc and other Chinese topics - which is a broad subject. I write more about those subjects because I'm more well versed in them. IMO, pointing typical poor reporting on Chinese subjects or disambiguate Chinese stories in geopolitical terms should not be an indicator of entrenched nationalism. Regardless, I've removed the original comment and will be steering away from Huawei related posts.

No agenda here, but I saw this exchange as a chance to mess with the Hackernews API, "what is the percentage breakdown of dirtyid comment subjects?" (Just based on simplistic keyword search)

Total Comments: 201 china: 139 (0.69) lifting: 16 (0.08) podcast: 9 (0.04) unknown: 37 (0.18)

That seems about right, the caveat is that I get much more engagement on topics pertaining China.

I'm not asking you to stop, just diversify, and to use the site more in the spirit of intellectual curiosity and less in the spirit of battle. Those two things don't go together at all. Your comments on weightlifting and other topics are pretty hard to find amid the others; I looked and missed them.

I don't think it's fair for other users to accuse you of being a shill, astroturfer, spy, foreign agent, or other internet inanities, and have frequently asked them not to do so—and of course the HN guidelines make this quite clear also.

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

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Dirtyid posts many comments disagreeing with various criticisms of Chinese government actions, but that doesn't mean they're the official CPC line. The difference is that dirtyid usually agrees on the facts but interprets them differently, whereas the CPC line on many topics is that there's no such topic and you definitely shouldn't try discussing it.

If you my analysis are official CPC line then you are clearly not educated on the subject or took time to read my posts. A Chinese sockpuppet would not post articles about Chinese AI robot police, sharp eyes rural surveillance etc. Not conforming to MSM narrative about China and having a nuanced understanding of Chinese policies is not the same thing as pro-CPC.

Here's the post on the sharper eyes surveillance program dirtyid submitted 3 months ago, for anyone interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20930424

PS: I think your comments would be received slightly better if you wrote with less of an angry tone.

Yes, sockpuppets are a form of deception, and you can't accuse another person of that here without evidence. Please re-read the guidelines and stop this now.

Had you said single-purpose account you'd have been closer to the point. We've asked dirtyid not to do that.

Did you know Mussolini helped pioneer one of the first effective biofuels? He was a horrible fascist but the trains ran on thyme.

This breaks the site guidelines badly. Please don't.

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

Edit: oops, I thought this was a political rant not a joke.

Bet you giggled.

Actually I didn't read enough of it to realize it was a joke. That doesn't break the site guidelines as badly as going on some Mussolini rant would have, so I'm sorry I nailed you for the wrong speed bracket.