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Re:Nearlyfreespeech.net Bigger, better, faster, more by seattle_spring on Sunday September 03, 2023 @09:18PM (#37376234)
“TDS” is a prime example of a “thought terminating cliche” [1]. Certain people don’t have any real arguments of substance, so anytime someone criticizes their hero, they cry “TDS!!”, as if it someone discredits the other person’s argument. You’ll see similar stuff posted against criticisms of Elon Musk, where people will claim that it’s only because “he goes against the hive mind.”

It’s an incredibly lazy, unintelligible way of arguing, but alas…

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_cliché

Re:Nearlyfreespeech.net Bigger, better, faster, more by temp12192021 on Sunday September 03, 2023 @09:20PM (#37376251)
“thought terminating cliche” is itself a thought terminating cliche.

An incredibly lazy, unintelligible way of arguing, but alas…

Re:Nearlyfreespeech.net Bigger, better, faster, more by dang on Sunday September 03, 2023 @10:31PM (#37376591)
Could you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

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