Fool? What sort of word is that? I'd look it up but I don't trust wikipedia... Wait, what? Fool? Really? Did you call someone on HN a fool? My oh my... What strong words! Sheesh, whatever happened to courteous discourse? Has that gone the way of the dodo?
Yeah, when you've been here more than a year you can lecture me on "courteous discourse".
Making a comparison equating a US spy/wire tapping program to a homicidal antisemitic lunatic that played a major role in exterminating 9 million people is naive at best and idiotic at worst.
Believing such a comparison is apt does in fact make you a fool, by definition, because what you are displaying is foolishness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foolishness
By all means though, continue to believe in nonsense. That's your right. Don't attempt to tell me I can't call a spade a spade however.
>Yeah, when you've been here more than a year you can lecture me on "courteous discourse".
I've been around here for more than a year. More than a few years, actually. It looks like you're throwing a temper tantrum over these NSA-related posts on HN. Come back next week, I'm sure there will be something new over which you can complain.
Meanwhile, there are plenty of us for whom this is a very important topic. No, government spying isn't new, whether in the US or elsewhere (I'm in Canada). But there is a place to talk about how we ought to handle this, as the targets of that spying.
Regarding your later comment claiming to be banned, I think you might've just used a word or phrase that tripped an automatic filter for that one comment. Note that I don't have any inside knowledge of how HN's banning system actually works.
Regarding this thread, it was probably time to let it die before it started. There's nothing to be accomplished by arguing over wording and metaphorical choices from five posts back.
The comment did not say that the spying is as morally bad as the Holocaust. It compared to specific propaganda tactic advocated by Goebbels to propaganda tactics in use today.
