[jacobsheehy]

> There are so many issues with your comment that I don't know where to begin, but I won't bother addressing all of them because it will just devolve into typical Hn-ness. But I will address the more egregious misstatements you have made.

There's no need to insult me to start with. Please abide by the HN guidelines and do not just start insulting people. Let's just talk about all this and get right to the content:

> Running a few ads, with a small budget, or having some fake Twitter accounts post things that millions of others are already saying, in my view does not constitute an "attack on the US election infrastructure".

I don't know what you're talking about. I'm talking about specifically hacking the voting infrastructure and removing voters from the voting rolls. You're going on about ads or something with a small budget (???) but I have no idea what you're talking about.

Here is a citation that Russia directly hacks the elections themselves: https://slate.com/technology/2018/07/russia-election-hacking...

> That would be news indeed. Source?

Oh yeah, that is the biggest news of the last two years. I picked a source and cited it.

> Source?

Well, Heather Heyer was murdered in this fashion.

> constantly gather support to jail people who have committed no crimes

Well Beto for one! Ted Cruz trying to drum up support to jail Beto O'Rourke last night was wild. Scary and sad :(

[AnimalMuppet]

> You're going on about ads or something with a small budget (???) but I have no idea what you're talking about.

The amount of money Russia spent on Facebook ads.

> Well, Heather Heyer was murdered in this fashion.

That was tragic. Evil, even. But you said "People are dying in the streets from the actions taken by violent right-wing people", and when pressed for evidence, you cite the only instance that has happened in two years. But you claimed more than that. You claimed "people" (plural) "are" (present tense). You have dramatically overstated a real, horrible, but still one-off instance into a general trend.

> Well Beto for one! Ted Cruz trying to drum up support to jail Beto O'Rourke last night was wild. Scary and sad :(

Ted Cruz is trying to drum up support for getting re-elected, nothing more. (You've seen this before. Note that Hillary remains completely un-locked-up.) It's sad, all right, that Cruz would use this tactic. But Beto isn't going to jail, win or lose, unless he actually does something, no matter what Cruz says in a campaign situation.

[downandout]

Again, typical Hn-ness. Have a great afternoon!

[dang]

This kind of political flamewar is the sort of thing we ban accounts for. Please don't do it here, at all.

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

[jacobsheehy]

Yes, your constant downplaying and total denial of the most important technology and political events of the century is very "HN like". Have a great afternoon.

[downandout]

There's no need to insult me to start with.

I intended no insult, nor did I post one. I simply pointed out that there were glaring factual issues with your comment. I apologize if you misinterpreted what I said.