All I see you doing here is doubling down on your accusation that 'fridek is being deceptive. That's bizarre, given their actual comment. It's as if you read something you didn't like, and decided that the only way it could have appeared before you is dishonesty. No: some people just don't agree with you. You have no cause to call anyone a liar, and doing so is uncivil. Please stop!
Obviously something being spin doesn't mean somebody repeating it is deceptive or dishonest. Just some of them, and mostly those that originated it. Others merely repeat it uncritically.
Obviously again, Fridek, which I never mentioned at all, not even hinted at him, because I was answering my direct parent, can very much believe what he wrote.
>It's as if you read something you didn't like, and decided that the only way it could have appeared before you is dishonesty.
Actually it's like what I said is pretty clear, and you go out of your way to find some hidden attack beyond my words.
What I said of the thing said is that it's a classic spin.
Not that the one who said it on HN is a spinster or doesn't believe what he said, or is deceptive or anything.
If I'm right (and I think one can objectively say the argument is indeed misleading), then whether people who retell it believe it or not is orthogonal, as it doesn't make it any less spin.
