Re:Vladimir Putin, in speech, hints at further territorial e...
by tptacek on Friday June 10, 2022 @07:00PM
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Hey, Rayiner. Please don't generalize about whole huge groups of people this way. This is just about how you're choosing your words, not about what you're trying to say. When you say things like this, you're begging to have the thread spin out on a useless slapfight about Europeans vs Americans. I'm not just randomly making it up; it's a guidelines thing (the search bar will avail). If you see me write things like this, I'd be grateful if you mentioned it to me, too.
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Re:Vladimir Putin, in speech, hints at further territorial e...
by rayiner on Saturday June 11, 2022 @01:37PM
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Fair enough--I mean "many of the same europeans who mocked American military spending in the past." Many Europeans making negative comments about American defense spending is definitely a recognizable phenomenon. I'm simply trying to comment on the shift in tone now that there is a threat in their own back yard.
Re:Vladimir Putin, in speech, hints at further territorial e...
by tptacek on Saturday June 11, 2022 @07:28PM
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"Many of the X who Y" seems like a useful pattern. It's annoying, but we have to be extra careful when we step into these kinds of debates (as opposed to, like, debates about register allocators), because they're especially flammable. But I also think the exercise of revising comments to devenomize them (especially when you didn't mean to mix any venom in!) is valuable even outside of HN.