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Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by dang on Sunday June 27, 2021 @02:15PM (#27653815)
That's stretching way too far. "Apocalyptic fables" was obviously a religious putdown. People aren't allowed to smear each other's religions on HN because it leads to some of the nastiest, dumbest, and most repetitive internet threads. It should be obvious from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html why we don't want that.
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Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by simondotau on Sunday June 27, 2021 @08:36PM (#27656859)
I'd still assert that "fables" is merely inaccurate, but I will accept this can be a matter of opinion. However you just quoted "apocalyptic fables" as though describing it as apocalyptic were somehow relevant to the negative connotation. Book of Revelation isn't just any apocalyptic literature, it's prototypical of the genre.[1] Apocalypse is the literally a Greek-derived word for revelation.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalyptic_literature

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Revelation

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Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by dang on Sunday June 27, 2021 @09:18PM (#27657106)
I know where the word apocalypse comes from. It doesn't change the point: "apocalyptic fables" was obviously a religious putdown, and those are not cool on HN.
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