Downvoted because I don’t want LW to be the kind of place where people casually make inflammatory political claims, in a way that seems to assume this is something we all know and agree with, without any supporting evidence.
*nods* I agree that the opening has one line which is both off-topic and predictably distracting. I strong-upvoted because I found the model in the rest of the post to be helpful and quite accurate.
I also downvoted for precisely this reason. I agree with Ben Pace’s take, but not with his voting decision, though I entirely agree that this post is strong-upvote-worthy with this sort of thing removed.
Downvoted because I don’t want LW to be the kind of place where people casually make inflammatory political claims, in a way that seems to assume this is something we all know and agree with, without any supporting evidence.
*nods* I agree that the opening has one line which is both off-topic and predictably distracting. I strong-upvoted because I found the model in the rest of the post to be helpful and quite accurate.
I also downvoted for precisely this reason. I agree with Ben Pace’s take, but not with his voting decision, though I entirely agree that this post is strong-upvote-worthy with this sort of thing removed.