Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32607698, which was posted earlier and also has a more...I don't want to say neutral, but at least more neutral-sounding source. The highstrung rhetoric of the current article ("We are ruled by unelected sociopaths" etc.) is not a great fit for HN.
Of course. Truth is good, but it should be obvious from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html that it isn't a sufficient condition to be using HN as intended. (It isn't a necessary condition, either, because people can be wrong in good faith and that's part of the process of finding the truth.)
Rhetorical name-calling isn't true or false though, so I don't think your question really applies in this case.
What people mean by 'true' in the context of political rhetoric is 'I like it'. Liking and truth have little to do with each other—in fact the love of truth has mostly to do with disentangling the two, which is not a particularly common activity, least of all in politics or on the internet.
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[ 4.3 ms ] story [ 14.5 ms ] threadRhetorical name-calling isn't true or false though, so I don't think your question really applies in this case.
What people mean by 'true' in the context of political rhetoric is 'I like it'. Liking and truth have little to do with each other—in fact the love of truth has mostly to do with disentangling the two, which is not a particularly common activity, least of all in politics or on the internet.
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