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Re:Saudi prosecutors seek death penalty for academic over so... by dang on Monday January 16, 2023 @03:09PM (#34404924)
Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes everything worse.

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

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Re:Saudi prosecutors seek death penalty for academic over so... by jacooper on Monday January 16, 2023 @04:40PM (#34405847)
Sorry, didn't mean to. Can you highlight which site guideline I broke?
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Re:Saudi prosecutors seek death penalty for academic over so... by dang on Monday January 16, 2023 @04:59PM (#34406029)
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents." (<-- arguing about religion and countries in this way is both of those)

"Edit out swipes." (<-- "starting to sound like someone who's just making stuff up" definitely counts as a swipe)

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