I'm sorry you've gone through such distressing experiences and definitely don't want to add to the distress, but I also don't want replies from HN commenters to add to it unintentionally.
> Having been threatened with murder and then blackmailed, with zero consequence to the perpetrators, I have first hand experience dealing with such corruption.
Care to elaborate? This sounds like something too heavy to leave behind as a remark on a comment
Just FYI, I don't think the other user was trolling. HN has a certain number of commenters coming from (let's say) distressed points of view. One can sometimes guess at this from the comment history. I don't mean to single anyone out, just to say that it's a regular if not a common pattern. It's not always easy to find a compassionate way to handle it but I think it's important to try.
I wasn't trolling and no one needs to treat me extra compassionately. I can cope just fine with reality. It's most folks who deny reality in order to remain sane and low in stress.
The world has some primordial evils in it. Only when you fall into a honey pot of the state, will you understand the level of evil and malevolence that exists as part of rule, law, and order.
The death and destruction isn't contained in neat bows, it happens on US soil in disturbing ways.
I am not special in any regard, I just have seen more than most. Enjoy the ride and don't forget that most outlier statistics aren't anomalous accidents, they are symptoms of a process that is subtle.
