No, actually, anyone who comes into a HN thread immediately derailing it into a pointless regional political debate is an idiot. That&#x27;s pretty much it. I&#x27;m sorry to burst your very long rant where you over-analyze and completely miss the mark, but people are simply embarrassed by you because you&#x27;ve taken this HN thread and run it into the ground without it receiving even one on-topic reply.<p>&gt; The discussion in these comments is embarrassing (and I&#x27;m not even Swedish).<p>&gt; Apparently the mere mention of Sweden was enough to make local politics spill over here. It&#x27;s like watching a post about a weather app getting overrun by climate change denialists.<p>That&#x27;s the entirety of it.