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Mikhail Gorbachev has died

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970 points homarp | 2 comments | 30 Aug 22 20:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.427s | source
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kenned3[dead post] ◴[30 Aug 22 21:14 UTC] No.32655164[source]▶
ipnon ◴[30 Aug 22 21:24 UTC] No.32655307[source]▶
Let me tell you why I think this is an inappropriate comment: The point of it seems not to be collaboratively extending the line of thought proposed by the original post or the parent comment, but to make the parent commenter feel some kind of personal shame or stupidity. Good commenting is more like a team sport than a martial art.
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1. mhh__ ◴[30 Aug 22 21:56 UTC] No.32655678[source]▶
Perhaps, but equally that's a route to a monoculture - can we not question Reagan?

Americans love to glibly propitiate to Reagan's spirit (in heaven I'm assured), there's no way they could be doing so out of ignorance of the more controversial aspects of his presidency?

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2. dang ◴[30 Aug 22 22:11 UTC] No.32655823[source]▶
Of course we can question Reagan but when it comes to political/ideological flamebait, it's best to (a) avoid it and (b) stay on topic.

Whimsical off-topic stuff can be ok, but flamewar off-topic stuff isn't, and a greatest-hits of bad Reagan is definitely that.

This is in the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and there's lots of past explanation at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que..., though you might have to scroll through boilerplate to get to the more substantial explanations.