[droithomme]

Right. So there was a global consensus, promoted by certain folks, that adherence to academics was the secret to national success.

And the Soviets bought in to that propaganda, to their detriment. They spent a fortune and produced the most well-educated and thoughtful population in human history. A couple of their satellite states even achieved genuine 100% literacy. Not 100% rounded but 100% exact.

The campaign thus was a success. It was amazing. Fortunes were spent on the totally unimportant goal of an egalitarian society where everyone is respected and helped.

Being smart isn't how you succeed as top dog in this era.

edit: Downvotes away uneducated ignoranti with no counterpoints! Yee haw!

[dang]

Please stop posting ideological bait to HN.

[droithomme]

Dan you continue to be a Nazi ideologue in the service of sociopaths. I have tried for years to help you but it's hopeless isn't it. You won't stop sucking their ass in the promotion of fascism. You horrible piece of evil.

I wish you would get what you have created for yourself but there is no justice. The innocent will be oppressed by the elitist liars you support as a sycophant and justice will never prevail. It's horrible. You could switch sides but they are tossing bones at you and you will sell out the good for a tiny token. It's horrible.

[TimTheTinker]

> Downvotes away ignoranti!

Not a mod, but that’s against the HN guidelines and is likely to keep your comment grayed out.

I thought the rest of your comment was interesting, FWIW.

[axguscbklp]

Personally, I gravitate towards grayed-out comments. I think that they tend to be likely to be on one or another extreme side of the intellectual bell curve. Basically, they end up grayed out because either they are too dumb or too smart for the average Hacker News user. So if I manage to run an effective mental filter to discard grayed-out comments that are on the low side of the intellectual gray curve, then gravitating towards grayed-out comments makes it more likely that I am exposed to content that is in the highest intellectual range of Hacker News comments as a whole.

[yters]

How do you succeed as top dog in this era?

[droithomme]

Yes, Stalin and some others were pieces of shit. Do you know what the Union Army did to Native Americans?

[thomashobohm]

What are you even talking about?