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> And yet, the only time you demand proof is related to Russia and your account was inactive for over a month before that. You protest and deflect far too much for me to believe you are genuine. > Sorry. It's funny. We don't know each other; yet you actually had enough interest in me as a person (not in my words related to this particular discussion) to examine my commenting history at Hacker News and to come to a conclusion. Which is based on circumstantial evidence (my commenting history). And which — whatever opinion you may have formed of me — is most likely wrong. As a programmer (not a very experienced one), I've been reading Hacker News for quite some time. I have always found discussions here interesting and instructive, unlike on any other internet forum that I know of. I have never had a reason to jump in and leave a comment until I saw someone's criticism of someone else's example of functional programming, which sounded to me laughably wrong. This is when I decided to actually register and leave a comment to that person. I just couldn't resist. And then, a day later, I saw a very similar discussion about Russia hacking the U.S. elections. I had been following the analysis of this story in the U.S. media since the story broke out. I have been annoyed by how easily this story got woven into the mainstream narrative; how easily the stories about DNC hacks, Podesta emails, and Wikileaks became to be regarded as acts of aggression of one country against another. I was dumbstruck by how easily political motivations of making Russia (which is not a lamb, by any standard) into a scapegoat get overlooked (believe you me, our media has a very similar tendency of blaming various events, including the Ukranian revolution of 2014, on the U.S.). That's why when I saw a comment of an intelligent human being that expressed an idea that so much irked me, I left mine. That people see it as evidence of my hidden motives, is both sad and amusing at the same time. I am not qualified to talk about Georgia, or Ukraine, or Germany. I am not following their news. I do not follow Russian news, for that matter, either (they are depressing and sickening). I am not saying that Russia is innocent of anything, and that the whole world is in conspiracy against it. I simply do not know. I am only focusing here on the recent story regarding the U.S. elections, and on the quality of arguments surrounding it. P.S.:
> And yet, the only time you demand proof... I was not even demanding proof :-) I was merely pointing out that the document you quoted cannot be regarded as such. |