Based on your post history, it seems like you may not be familiar with the expectations for discourse in this community. Per the guidelines[0]

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

It looks like a lot of your grey comments did not follow this guideline. I see you've been here since 2018, but maybe nobody ever brought it up. This community is different from other places like reddit, and its partly because of these practices.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I've nothing but respect for the group, including the member I mentioned. Instead of all this trash talk you could have just said what bothers you about them.

Foremost is what I said before - the quote is entirely unremarkable and unoriginal. You could easily choose a quote with the same content but said by someone actually remarkable, although there is literally no reason to quote here at all here since anyone that has made it through adolescence has came to the same realization.

What catapulted it from silly to amusing was that the person you quoted is entirely unremarkable, known only for being in a group that made some of the worst "music" I have ever heard get regular radio play.

The quote is particularly relevant to the thread, and who made the quote matters little to nothing except for the fact that the person did had a very public change of heart regarding a specific topic.

Why do you feel you need to ignore the substance of the quote and instead deflect it with cheap ad-hominem attacks?

The image you're conveying of yourself is that you're willing to forego discussing things rationally to instead focus your energy in petty persona attacks and deflections.