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happytoexplainyesterday at 11:27 PM4 repliesview on HN

Historically, was it always so common for powerful or famous people to seem to purposefully garner hatred like he, and others, have been for the past decade? To speak in a petty, self-important, "trolling" manner, to a very broad audience? To embrace traits that are intrinsically negative? Or are we living in a rare time?


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adestefanyesterday at 11:34 PM

New England colonists had a habit of ransacking and burning down the houses of government officials throughout the 1760s and during the Revolutionary War. Got bad enough that most did not sleep in their government housing.

techblueberrytoday at 1:05 AM

We are in a fact still in the tail end of a uniquely measured and peaceful time.

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hahahacornyesterday at 11:31 PM

Can you explain the petty, self important, trolling manner? Which traits are intrinsically negative?

Genuine Q

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