I understand the frustration, but please don't post flamewar comments to HN, and especially not nationalistic flamewar comments, regardless of how wrong other people are or you feel they are. These threads are already hellish enough.

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

Sorry. Please flag or remove if I took it too far.

Okay, maybe I'm missing something, but someone posted[0] that exact phrase #4 at the same time you posted it. What gives?

PS: I agree with your points and am saddened the anti-China rhetoric has been flooding HN over the past years. I read a comment here long ago that said "HN is full of neocons" or something like that, but I can't help but believe there's also state backed propaganda (shills) fomenting sinophobia.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/z6Jq8Cf

Chinese here (and sorry for the bad English).

I agree with everything FooBarWidget said, and it's super annoying every time HN has an anti-China boner based on ridiculous things (don't even let me start about Reddit.)

And then, I found myself.. don't want to risk saying anything here with my main account (hence this throwaway account), even if it's defending China.

Will anything happen to me? Very unlikely, even if I "curse Xi". But still, I don't want any topics about Chinese politics to be related with my main ID, "just in case". Unlike FooBarWidget who (by glancing at his Twitter) has settled in EU, I don't have this luxury still plan to go back to China.

I found this whole "mental gymnastics" I have myself ironic and, to be honest, pathetic. So I just stopped. :/

I'm posting as my main account and I hope the downvotes are the only repercussion. I think it's fair to bring attention to when the discourse gets a little one-sided.

Yeah I wonder what the answers would be? Probably: No, Yes, No, No?

Yes, a HN member with a profile created in December of 2008, 5800+ Karma, with links to his Twitter and name of his employer in his profile page is a 五毛(50 center).

The CCP is truly all powerful!

If my dripping sarcasm wasn’t clear, you’re way off base here.

Edit 1: to the downvoters, please feel free to explain why it’s appropriate to accuse a 12-year HN member of being a paid shill for the CCP when all evidence points to the contrary.

The one you're replying to sounds like sarcasm to me. Or a very ironic comment given the comment it's replying to. It's hard to tell.

I might’ve thought so too, but the account I’m replying to seems to be a genuine CCP critic (which is totally fine!).

A post about Putin and the CCP exploiting US domestic political turmoil: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25830075

A book recommendation by a longtime China-skeptical writer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25843422 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gertz)

My personal preference is for a HN community where dissenting views don’t lead to assigning ulterior motives (in this case being paid to shill for the CCP) to our debating “opponents”.

Keybase, twitter, normal twitter tech posts stuff... followers... why randomly throw conspiracies at people?

You've broken the site guidelines egregiously with this comment. Please stop creating accounts to do that with.

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

Hacker News discovers more than a billion Chinese people actually supports the Communist Party

More than a billion is quite a stretch, but you could probably find a few hundred million without too much trouble.