> in the article

Why on earth would it be? You've lost the thread, this is about djinnandtonic's claims, not what the article says. Here, a quick recap:

1. djinnandtonic: I have no sympathy for the complaining farmers in this article, who are probably ones that cheered a separate chainsawing-bureaucrats event. They willfully chose a cruel mess.

2. NotGMan: Comparing the misfortune of good farmers to the misfortune of bad bureaucrats is unfair.

3. Terr: djinanndtonic wasn't comparing the two groups, djinnandtonic was using that event to to argue that rural farmers' voted for the mess they find themselves in.

4. Kulahan: Which line says farmers are voting that way?

5. Terr: djinanndtonic's line right here about the chainsawing-bureaucrats thing, because it's a reference to [...]

6. Kulahan: OMG THAT LINE ISN'T EVEN IN THE ARTICLE!111

7. Terr: Of course it isn't, because the article wasn't about their vote patterns, that was introduced in the HN comment that NotGMan critiqued. Here's a recap [Recursion Error Detected]

I was making a point that complaining about strawmen you invent is a waste of time.

The people who clapped as musk revved a chainsaw and then went home and complained about farm shit don’t exist. Farmers aren’t spending all day on Twitter. They don’t even know who musk is aside from the CEO of Tesla.

I apologize for throwing you for such a loop.