Please keep nationalistic flamebait off this site. It leads to nationalistic flamewars, which we want to avoid here.
There is a reason why depression, anxiety, and a host of other issues have escalated for decades, and nationalism has nothing to do with it.
What happens when people post like that is that others, who have the opposite sympathies, get provoked and feel entitled to respond in kind. Of course, what they feel is "responding in kind" is usually much worse, and thus we end up in a downward spiral.
None of this is what HN is for. We want curious conversation here, and that doesn't consist of putting down entire countries, nor of grand generalizations (especially negative ones). Curiosity is much more inclined to look at some interesting or surprising specific about a situation. That's also what the site guidelines ask people to avoid generic tangents (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).
But sure, it’s your show.
You're right, but we have to moderate based on how these things work in the general case.
> this is truly mystifying to me
It's inevitable that there will be different interpretations of specific comments, so I hope you can at least 'upgrade' us to "wrong in this case" and hopefully we will make more sense in the future!
p.s. I know what you mean about "it's your show" but we really don't think of this as "our" show - the community is the only thing that's valuable about HN
Thanks for being a place where I can go ‘huh?’ and not get banned or the like!
We're the limiting factor a lot of the time, so there's at least room for improvement.
This kind of thing just doesn't lead to good HN discussion. It's at best a generic tangent and more likely a generic flamewar tangent.