Nationalistic and ideological flamewar are not what this site is for, and people are routinely descending into near-madness about this. The comments are predictable, over the top, and unbelievably lame. Users who want to yell at each other and blare national/ideological rhetoric need to post elsewhere. Boilerplate talking points belong elsewhere also.
This is becoming epidemic on HN. I think we are going to have to ask the community to get a lot more systematic about flagging comments that flout this site's rules and intended spirit—regardless of which side of the battle they're on.
This is the point at which some angry zealot accuses us of being secret communist agents. Not at all—we're just trying to have an internet forum that isn't dominated by cartoonish ideological and nationalistic yelling. Grandiose rhetoric is not intellectually interesting, so this follows from what we're trying to optimize for: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....
Well perhaps that's not really Beijing's narrative? But an attempt at creating a you are either with us it against us narrative? Same thing was used when us went to war with Iraq but look where we are.
