Sorry mate. hackernews's open source alternative thread is definitely not the right place for this comment. It would have been greater on a hackernews's more political thread and point out the france open sourcing efforts in that point.

Do you want me to delete this comment? I totally would if you want.

Don't delete it, he's trying to restrict your free speech.

Don’t delete it, I don’t mind, and I don’t want to discourage anyone’s free speech, that includes mine, too (so please deal with my thoughts).

All I’m saying is that only because French and German government paid for this piece of open source software, maybe next time look in the mirror and ask yourself first:

Is this really about Macron vs Trump?

Instead of looking at this as me restricting your free speech, this is an intervention and I encourage you to not see Trump and Macron in everything.

> real hacker news discussion

I say that this isn't really productive, and I would argue that the French government's involvement played a big part in this trending on HN in the first place.

Maybe focus less on what others are doing and more on backing your own views with actions. For instance, you could just ignore this comment and the thread altogether. No one’s forcing you to read the replies, after all.