When bills pile up, young people turn to strangers on Venmo • Hacker News Board

Re: When bills pile up, young people turn to strangers on Venmo

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Post by kjsbfkjbf » Fri, Jul 12, 2019, 4:11 PM UTC

neetdeth wrote: post #65

shanemhansen wrote: post #54

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> Community has always supported people in times of need Sure, if you are the right gender, race, and religion.

The third definition of community from dictionary.com: a social, religious, occupational, or other group sharing common characteristics or interests and perceived or perceiving itself as distinct in some respect from the larger society within which it exists A prerequisite for finding community support is to be a member of one. There are many communities. The commonality and social bonds between members form the basi…

> It's sad that not everyone has a home, but the solution is not to demolish the entire block and apportion to each person an equal share of lumber.

...because? Do some people have more of a right to shelter because their ancestors raped, killed, and enslaved better?

Re: When bills pile up, young people turn to strangers on Venmo

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Post by kjsbfkjbf » Fri, Jul 12, 2019, 4:12 PM UTC

PhasmaFelis wrote: post #146

antepodius wrote: post #116

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It's more like deKulakisation.

Either way, it's pretty damn weird to try to connect begging for money with mass slaughter.

Also straight up ignoring the millions of people who die under capitalism.

Re: When bills pile up, young people turn to strangers on Venmo

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Post by yakshaving_jgt » Sat, Jul 13, 2019, 6:28 PM UTC

kjsbfkjbf wrote: post #152

PhasmaFelis wrote: post #146

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Either way, it's pretty damn weird to try to connect begging for money with mass slaughter.

Also straight up ignoring the millions of people who die under capitalism.

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Re: When bills pile up, young people turn to strangers on Venmo

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Post by dang » Sat, Jul 13, 2019, 11:56 PM UTC

yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #153

kjsbfkjbf wrote: post #152

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Also straight up ignoring the millions of people who die under capitalism.

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Please don't do this here.

Re: When bills pile up, young people turn to strangers on Venmo

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Post by yakshaving_jgt » Sun, Jul 14, 2019, 8:13 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #154

yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #153

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Please don't do this here.

I’m a little confused why I would be flagged when most of my comment history is on topic, and it seems most of the comment history of the account I was replying to is political and divisive.

Re: When bills pile up, young people turn to strangers on Venmo

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Post by dang » Sun, Jul 14, 2019, 8:26 AM UTC

kjsbfkjbf wrote: post #152

PhasmaFelis wrote: post #146

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Either way, it's pretty damn weird to try to connect begging for money with mass slaughter.

Also straight up ignoring the millions of people who die under capitalism.

It looks like you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle. Doing that is against the site guidelines, and we ban accounts that do it because it destroys the curiosity that HN exists for. Could you please stop posting like this? Also, please don't post in the flamewar style generally.

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

Re: When bills pile up, young people turn to strangers on Venmo

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Post by dang » Sun, Jul 14, 2019, 8:29 AM UTC

yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #155

dang wrote: post #154

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Please don't do this here.

I’m a little confused why I would be flagged when most of my comment history is on topic, and it seems most of the comment history of the account I was replying to is political and divisive.

Two reasons. One is that it was you who first swerved onto a generic ideological tangent, which was the original sin of this subthread.

The other is simply that we don't see all the comments—there are far too many. It's understandable that people want us to be consistent and even-handed, but that's not fully possible. It's also not fully necessary, since someone else violating the site guidelines doesn't make it ok for you to do so. (You get a speeding ticket even though others were going faster—which of course they usually are.) But I've taken a look at the other comments now, and did some additional moderation.

Re: When bills pile up, young people turn to strangers on Venmo

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Post by yakshaving_jgt » Sun, Jul 14, 2019, 9:54 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #157

yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m a little confused why I would be flagged when most of my comment history is on topic, and it seems most of the comment history of the account I was replying to is political and divisive.

Two reasons. One is that it was you who first swerved onto a generic ideological tangent, which was the original sin of this subthread. The other is simply that we don't see all the comments—there are far too many. It's understandable that people want us to be consistent and even-handed, but that's not fully possible. It's also not fully necessary, since someone else violating the site guidelines doesn't make it ok f…

Ok, I think that's reasonable.

Thank you for clarifying.