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> Holy shit, no one has actually read the text. Why do I bother.

Please don't be rude in comments here.

The HN guidelines specifically ask you not to use the "you didn't even read the article" trope, and you've done that repeatedly in this thread.

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

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You may not have followed his link, but this isn't a standard case of "you didn't even read the article". By "the text", he means the actual executive order, which strangely isn't linked from Sam's piece. His frustration is that people are reading the blog post, but seem oddly disinterested in the primary source, which he feels contradicts (or at least complexifies) many of the points that Sam makes.

I wonder if the discussion might be more productive if you switched the URL to the primary source: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3431228/Extreme-V....

Wait. Did you just tell him to "read the rules" because he keeps telling other people to "read the article"? Why not try obeying the rules yourself, for once.

He did, because (1) he's a moderator on the site, and (2) the rules, which you clearly haven't read recently either, specifically say not to insinuate that other commenters haven't read the article.

Yes, but the more important point (and rule) is not to be rude.

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