there's some pretty good quotes about that by Mussolini. Things are getting bleak at an incredible pace.

You make broad assumptions about someone, talk down to them, and then claim they need to grow up?

E: parent edited their comment.

Can you elaborate on what you mean?

Sure, tl;dr: Coastals are in a cultural bubble and Orange Man Bad™ is not literally Hitler/Mussolini/{insert-favorite-despot}.

Judging by the reactions it seems fascism has become very popular around here too lately.

The original quote I was referring to:

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power. - Benito Mussolini

If you keep posting in the flamewar style we're going to have to ban you again.

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

Then you need to ban me again, because I have no idea how I violated the guidelines any more than the OP submission did. My comment was a digression along relevant, imperative and inoffensive lines that were introduced by the source. I am not the only person raising this point, I am not inviting extremist interpretations, and I'm not misrepresenting the consequences presented in the article. For years, Hacker News has tolerated pugilist insults being hurled at the EU with the sole purpose of starting ideological flamewars. Now that someone steps up to accuse America of a double-standard, it's offensive and insensitive? I really don't get it. What culture are you even trying to foster, at this point? Certainly not one that gratifies an audience's curiosity.

If you want to threaten people with the guidelines, then they have to be interpretable. The current "politics is bad except when it's not" rationale is not going to age with grace - it's going to create a series of unsustainable and conflicting precedents that only get worse as America's political landscape further deteriorates. Take a stance on it and stand your ground, people will not listen if your guidelines "maybe" enforce something or provide "probably" off-topic criteria.

Your GP comment, like the one you were replying to, was just ideological flamebait, without substance or information. We want thoughtful conversation here, not people taking swipes at enemies.

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

> For years, Hacker News has tolerated pugilist insults being hurled at

Other people breaking the site guidelines doesn't make it ok for you to do it (I don't mean you personally, of course, but anyone who comments here). Otherwise we just end up in a downward spiral (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). You can help by flagging it or emailing us at [email protected].

Can you please not perpetuate flamewars or use HN for political battle? Your account has unfortunately been doing this repeatedly lately. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Absolutely dang. I’m sorry for causing you any grief.

Appreciated!