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Comment by thaumaturgy | Hacker News Reader

The commenter you were replying to was just a troll, and they were just using the term "Marxist" as an epithet. Here's an incomplete list of other "red-flag epithets":

    communist
    socialist
    liberal
    democrat
    muslim
    islamist
    apologist

etc.

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So you're saying a very popular news station in the US is actually a collection of trolls? :) I don't know if that should make me feel better (at least they don't believe what they're saying) or worse (so many viewers do).

EDIT: silly spelling mistake

Actually, yeah. I know it sounds horribly cynical and conspiracist and so forth, but they have gone so absurdly out of the way of simple, verifiable facts, that it's impossible for me to accept that they really believe what they're saying.

They're just taking advantage of people's anger, and doing it well, and getting rich in the process.

Maybe so. He deleted his comment, which leads me to believe he at least as some capability for shame. Anyway, it'll be nice to have that written down, though, so I can refer my non-troll conservative friends to it when the idiocy builds up. It can be hard being a Republican. :(

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