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by JBlue42 2865 days ago
We do. We send our tax dollars to help support the impoverished red states. ;-)
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Tossing political flamebait into HN threads like this is vandalism. So is perpetuating the flamewar after you started it.

We ban accounts that do this repeatedly, regardless of which color the flames burn. Please don't do this again.

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

How was the parent comment not similar?

How is anything politically-related on this forum, supposedly for discussion of startups, not in some way inflammatory? What about the post itself? Not to mention that I and another user backed up my (yes, off-the-cuff) comment with references? I don't see how that 'perpetuates a flamewar'?

Vandalism is a rather strong word.

Feel free to ban this account. I can always make another if I decide there's any discussions worth participating in.

It’s more that the Federal Government sends a lower proportion of the $1 trillion borrowed every year to the blue states, compared to the red states.
Nice strawman. You could, at least, back the claim.
LMGTFY.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-s...

https://www.businessinsider.com/red-states-are-welfare-queen...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/04/democ...

Also, even if you don't believe it, it's not a strawman because it wasn't being attributed to someone else. Please try to balance out the random general-purpose rhetorical tricks with some actual facts or insight of your own next time.

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> Thanks for the petty insults

Maybe don't accuse people of making strawman arguments when they merely repeated well known facts, then. That's not civil either.

I think you're confusing me with another user. I never made any strawman accusation at all.
You're welcome.

And I think the California government and many of its supposedly liberal citizens could do more as well. "Screw you, I got mine" applies to both sides.

Even better, we as a nation should be implementing all those and not just leaving it up to wealthy states.