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You're conflating the ideology capitalism uses to justify and maintain itself with its actual material reality. It's not a surprise, considering this ideology (liberalism) is fundamentally idealist and not materialist. Have you actually read Marx or Engels? You'll find a holistic understanding of capitalism and its roots, its upsides and its downsides.
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If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
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You completely dodged addressing the main point - capitalist systems have made the most progress in terms of freedom and human rights.
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Also: we ban accounts that use HN primarily for ideological battle, regardless of what they're battling for or against. It's not what this site is for, it destroys what it is for, and I had to ask you about this already.
If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
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Your account has been using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's against the site guidelines ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ) and we ban such accounts regardless of what they're battling for or against. I've therefore banned this one. If you or anyone want further explanation, see these links: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=…
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We've banned this account for breaking the site guidelines. You can't post like this here, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. Also: we ban accounts that use HN primarily for ideological battle, regardless of what they're battling for or against. It's not what this site is for, it destroys what it is for, and I had to ask you about this already. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@…
It’s your website, but history will not judge you kindly.
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We've banned this account for breaking the site guidelines. You can't post like this here, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. Also: we ban accounts that use HN primarily for ideological battle, regardless of what they're battling for or against. It's not what this site is for, it destroys what it is for, and I had to ask you about this already. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@…
Others are free to make inflammatory ideological and political points, as long as they conform to liberalism. It’s your website, but history will not judge you kindly.
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Your account has been using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's against the site guidelines ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ) and we ban such accounts regardless of what they're battling for or against. I've therefore banned this one. If you or anyone want further explanation, see these links: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=…
What a sad state of affairs when pushing back against the bullshit spread by the very prolific reactionaries, albeit polite (which is all that matters here), of this site sooner or later gets one banned. To add insult to injury most of them have been posting on HN for many years.
Everyone thinks that we're secretly siding with their opponents when we do this kind of moderation (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...), but that feeling is not based in fact. It's just an inversion of your own sympathies. The other side thinks we're ruining the site by secretly siding with you.
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What a sad state of affairs when pushing back against the bullshit spread by the very prolific reactionaries, albeit polite (which is all that matters here), of this site sooner or later gets one banned. To add insult to injury most of them have been posting on HN for many years.
I don't know what you're referring to, but if there are accounts breaking the HN guidelines the way you were doing, which we haven't banned yet, I'd like to know which ones they are. Everyone thinks that we're secretly siding with their opponents when we do this kind of moderation ( https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... ), but that feeling is not based in fact. It's just an inversion of your…
It does't require a sociologist to realise that when certain topics degenerates into 500-1000 comments of bullshit and others doesn't even register that this user base has a certain bias.
Finally, what is seen as ideological warfare naturally follows the overton window. I could directly translate liberal/conservative folks posts here into a equivalent socialist narrative instead and it would be seen as ideological warfare because it's simply out of the ordinary.
You can just look through my comment history and the users I've replied to if you're genuinely interested.
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Others are free to make inflammatory ideological and political points, as long as they conform to liberalism. It’s your website, but history will not judge you kindly.
No, we don't care if someone is "conforming to liberalism", we care whether they're conforming to the HN guidelines. It's common for people to think that we're secretly siding with their opponents when we do this kind of moderation ( https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... ), but that sort of perception isn't based in fact.
As before, you compare similar handling of centre-left and far right politics. Good luck with that.
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No, we don't care if someone is "conforming to liberalism", we care whether they're conforming to the HN guidelines. It's common for people to think that we're secretly siding with their opponents when we do this kind of moderation ( https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... ), but that sort of perception isn't based in fact.
Liberalism is the root of this obsession with civility, while our countries get bombed and pillaged. If you ban polemics, you side with the dominant ideology. As before, you compare similar handling of centre-left and far right politics. Good luck with that.
> If you ban polemics, you side with the dominant ideology.
There's a strong version and a weak version of that argument. Using it to justify garden-variety internet swipes like "only Americans and children could believe such an absurd statement" is the weak version, and not very persuasive.
Thoughtful critique is welcome here, and curious conversation between people who respect each other and listen to each other is hardly a 'dominant ideology'. The problem is that a lot of us (all of us, most likely) use noble concepts to justify treating others badly.