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Re:America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cas... by dang on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @09:57PM (#30173087)
Please don't post ideological flamewar comments to HN. They make threads predictable, tedious, and usually nasty. We're trying for something different here: thoughtful, curious conversation. To the extent possible on the public internet.

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

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Re:America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cas... by trasz on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @03:32AM (#30175170)
How is explaining that the problem is inherent to this particular way of doing business a flame war?
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Re:America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cas... by dang on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @01:46PM (#30182009)
The first paragraph was ok, although it was already a generic ideological tangent, which does not make for good HN discussion (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

But "UBI or stfu" was pure flamebait and obviously against the site guidelines, especially since UBI is one of the classic generic flamewar topics. (From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.")

"Time to try some trickle up economics" is just ideological rhetoric, which is flame fuel. And "for the love of God" is more internet flamey tropiness.

All in all, that makes for a bad HN comment.

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