The amazing thing about people failing to learn from history is that everybody thinks they're too smart to (a) learn history or (b) follow rules enacted to prevent the disasters of yesteryear.

Learning from history is important but it’s much more important to do so in an inclusive manner. In fact, inclusive language is more important than anything else.

> In fact, inclusive language is more important than anything else.

Inclusive language literally doesn't matter one bit in the real world.

Some people really live incredibly sheltered, disconnected from reality lives where things like "inclusive language" are viewed as "more important than anything else".

Some people say that the US is protected by our armed forces but other countries also have armed forces. The thing that is unique is our inclusive language.

I'm sorry, what?

Nobody says that, you're mocking an exceptionally lazy strawman.

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it a lot lately. We've already asked you a whole bunch of times not to do this. Eventually we ban accounts that won't stop.

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

Sure, but I think you should strive to run your community in a way where you’re policing the “I don’t endorse X, but I don’t understand why more people don’t do X” that this comment espouses https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773488

You’re busy policing this while people are out there saying “Destroy their things and firebomb their houses”. So is it just that I made a mistake in my phrasing? Should I just frame the same comments in the style “I would never endorse X, but I don’t understand why others don’t do X”?

I can do that easily without LLM assistance if you like. But if you want your community to be exclusively endorsers of violence against enemies of a chosen tribe, then you should ban me so you can keep your little tribe of Ted Kaczynski fanboys.

This is one of those cases where the word "but" negates everything that precedes it.

If you think we haven't been moderating the type of posts you're talking about, you haven't been tracking HN moderation lately*—which is fine, why should/would you? But in that case you shouldn't be taking snarky swipes at the mods based on galactically mistaken assumptions.

* e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728106

More importantly, you shouldn't be pointing fingers at others instead of taking responsibility for your own bad behavior. Even if you were right in what you said, it wouldn't justify your breaking the rules. Moreover you have a longstanding pattern of doing this and we've been cutting you slack for years.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367674 (March 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45486692 (Oct 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42686976 (Jan 2025)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41833543 (Oct 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41673360 (Sept 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41089956 (July 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29959119 (Jan 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27992950 (July 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26537346 (March 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26537333 (March 2021)

Okay, admittedly when I read these things I lose my mind and become a viral host for the nonsense because I feel the need to retaliate against what is clearly some kind of Blue Tribe mobbery. Clearly it’s a mistaken belief that you allow targeted mob-forming on your platform. Actually you’re just drowning under the load. Fine. What I can edit out I shall and I’ll try to keep in mind that you’re trying and failing, and doing this is just participating in the crap.

I’ll follow your comments for a mod log to see and I’ll refrain.

I do think it would justify breaking any rules that allow targeted mob-forming but since that’s not happening I’m happy to stand off.