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Maybe it's time for you to seriously consider the possibility that you've been brainwashed and that as a result you are a genuinely morally worse human being.

Just a heads-up, this poster is almost certainly a Chinese shill. Just look at his comment history. Sadly, judging from dang's reply to one of his comments from 2 days ago, it look…

Stop bullshitting. I've vetted your comment history extensively

Your heart is in the right place but it's absurd to think about "going over there and fight" - we are not living in the 19th century. We should be lobbying our governments (plural …

I'm not. This has nothing to do with national origin. I explicitly said the presumption is based on having been raised in a democracy and therefore having been exposed to enlighten…

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HN is flooded with Chinese shills these days and I'm constantly seeing pro-China comments. Unfortunately it's such a large country so unless dang (who has been especially disappoin…

It's not that hard to understand and it's not something to lament. To carry out a project on this scale you need people who in effect have no free will and are willing to function …

HN is at least 50% Chinese shill accounts these days, thanks to the swarms of tech people with direct or direct connection to that country.

Nothing wrong with recommending that people who hold harmful views leave for their own good.

Well, how do you know what the rules mean? You have no direct access to dang's head. All one can rely on is the explicit words written, and the meanings of those words as defined b…

Look it up in the dictionary

That applies only to insinuation, i.e. vague hints and suggestions made without giving evidence. I'm not insinuating but outright accusing OP to be a Chinese shill on the basis of …

Is that supposed to be bad thing? The guys at Twitter who banned Chinese shills are also 'counting people's posts'

Do you honestly not see how shilling violates the guidelines? Also, the line you quoted 'applies' to me in the sense of explicitly permitting throwaway accounts.

For the same reason pro-rape views should be automatically suspicous. An important difference between the moral and intellectual domains is that there's such a thing as an 'innocen…

Of course the same standards do not apply. People living under democratic regimes can be assumed to have formed their views independently on their own, and to be speaking on their …

Just a heads-up: This person has posted at least 12 pro-China comments in the past year by my count. Extremely suspicious.

Sure, but pro-China shills should not be allowed to post on HN, period. It's in violation of the policies. Dang, can you look into this?

I count at least three. No way this isn't an shill account.

dang, can we ban this account? It looks very suspicous (posting a lot of pro-China stuff, username, etc.)

Agreed. Although it may not sound politically correct to say this, actions must be interpreted in light of the quality of the humans who performed them.

The difference is that turtles are cuter than chickens, and despite what many people will argue, cuteness, physical beauty etc do have inherent moral worth.