[patrickaljord]

if I were him I would take the first flight to Moscow, can't trust the Australian government, they're a US vassal state, sabotaging their own economy and relationship with China to please the US. Safer to go an enemy state of the US in this case. There's a reason Snowden's still alive while all those Boeing and other whistleblowers are either dead or jailed.

[twoodfin]

If you’re going to air conspiracy theories on hn, much better to elaborate the evidence for them beyond “there’s a reason”!

[mistermann]

Look at all of the psychologically conditioned[1] Westerners who do not follow your rule of thumb:

http://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&que...

Does this variation of the phenomenon bother you as well, and to the same degree?

[1] I mean this in the technical sense, not merely as shit talk.

[twoodfin]

From my admittedly limited perspective, it doesn’t seem like you need conspiracy theories to rag on the actions and statements of the current Russian government.

[mistermann]

I agree...however, do you think most people (or, the HN members in the search results) are able to conceptualize reality (the portion related to this topic) in a manner that does not technically fall into that category (thus invoking hypocrisy/irony/hilarity)?

Do you think they mostly & consistently have the ability (cold/natively, or even if explicitly prompted)?

[twoodfin]

I don’t know, but if they alluded to evidence that Russia had co-opted a US presidential candidate or something, yes, I’d also encourage them to present it.

[mistermann]

"evidence" is one of the most misunderstood, weaponized, shape shifting, etc words in our language....and our language is shit, so that's saying something.