<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>danbruc</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Those lies were not immediately able to be proven wrong.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;But there was serious doubt even if it did not constitute a clear proof. And doesn&amp;#x27;t this actually make matters worse? An obvious lie about something without much if any consequences versus a somewhat convincing lie about something that affected the lives of millions? To me the former one seems more like a stupid thing to do, the later one seems ruthless, evil or what ever you want to call it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>celticninja</author><text>Those lies were not immediately able to be proven wrong. This is different because not only did they lie about something that could be checked but the continued to lie even after being called out on it. Further the president repeated the lie and continues to repeat the lie. O bet both George W. Bush and Tony Blair would agree that there were no WMDs in Iraq if you asked them today, if you also Trump, today or in 10 years, about the turnout for his inauguration he would repeat the same lies.</text></item><item><author>forgetsusername</author><text>A &lt;i&gt;new trend&lt;/i&gt;?&lt;p&gt;You think Trump is inventing Whitehouse lies, right before our eyes? Politicians have a looooong history of lying, big lies that get peole killed (&amp;quot;Iraq WMDs are a slam dunk!&amp;quot;) . Where have you been?</text></item><item><author>kbenson</author><text>In one respect, the gaffe is insignificant to current events.  In another, it&amp;#x27;s vastly more important, because while small it erodes the underpinnings of the system by which we actually disseminate information.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like having to choose between being upset about the person that mugged you for $500 on the street, or the bank that surreptitiously added 0.05% APR or the loan you just got for your house.  One feels more important in the moment, but the other has much farther reaching implications, not just to your pocketbook, but as to whether you can trust anything about that institution going forward.&lt;p&gt;If this is the beginning of a new trend for the Whitehouse where &lt;i&gt;nothing&lt;/i&gt; presented can be trusted, and it continues through future presidencies, I can definitely tell you which &lt;i&gt;I&lt;/i&gt; think will be more important in 20 years.</text></item><item><author>pavanred</author><text>I really wish people and the media stop over emphasizing about every gaffe and focus on real news stories. For instance, the &amp;quot;alternative facts&amp;quot; comment&amp;#x2F;incident is being talked about everywhere, from TV news channels to news parody shows to talk shows to social media etc. But, at the same time it seems like there is so much more important news that one would think deserves more attention like the executive orders, withdrawal from TPP, revival of oil pipelines, changes in healthcare spending etc. I even just saw news articles headlining on the guardian now about agencies being banned from sharing information on social media or to reporters and few journalists getting felony charges after covering the protests around the inauguration.&lt;p&gt;It almost makes me wonder if it would be a good idea if there was a website that covered the latest gaffe and the corresponding actual news worthy story that was lost out on optimal coverage because of it.&lt;p&gt;Edit: I couldn&amp;#x27;t find this before but here is an interesting article I read yesterday [0]. It&amp;#x27;s an opinion piece by Alexey Kovalev. - &amp;quot;I’ve reported on Putin – here are my tips for journalists dealing with Trump&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;commentisfree&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;jan&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;reported-putin-journalists-trump-media&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;commentisfree&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;jan&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;report...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>beloch</author><text>I must admit, I&amp;#x27;m really confused by how impeachment works in the U.S..  Clinton was impeached for perjury and abuse of power because he took advantage of his position (and a political intern) and then lied about it.&lt;p&gt;Now we have a president who is not giving up his business interests while in office and who has already told some absolute whoppers, including the release of official press releases that were nothing but &amp;quot;alternative facts&amp;quot;. Why tell such obvious falsehoods?  We&amp;#x27;re all laughing (nervously) now because the lies seem to be harmless, self-serving vain ones.  However, is Trump just a little insane, or is he actually finding out who is willing to say &amp;quot;We&amp;#x27;ve always been at war with Eurasia&amp;quot; and who isn&amp;#x27;t?&lt;p&gt;This is probably a good time for people to be reading 1984.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon</title><url>http://www.openculture.com/2017/01/george-orwells-1984-is-now-the-1-bestselling-book-on-amazon.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>koolba</author><text>&amp;gt; O bet both George W. Bush and Tony Blair would agree that there were no WMDs in Iraq if you asked them today, if you also Trump, today or in 10 years, about the turnout for his inauguration he would repeat the same lies.&lt;p&gt;You can use the Obama birth certificate turn around as counter point and that was definitely less than 10 years.</text><parent_chain><item><author>celticninja</author><text>Those lies were not immediately able to be proven wrong. This is different because not only did they lie about something that could be checked but the continued to lie even after being called out on it. Further the president repeated the lie and continues to repeat the lie. O bet both George W. Bush and Tony Blair would agree that there were no WMDs in Iraq if you asked them today, if you also Trump, today or in 10 years, about the turnout for his inauguration he would repeat the same lies.</text></item><item><author>forgetsusername</author><text>A &lt;i&gt;new trend&lt;/i&gt;?&lt;p&gt;You think Trump is inventing Whitehouse lies, right before our eyes? Politicians have a looooong history of lying, big lies that get peole killed (&amp;quot;Iraq WMDs are a slam dunk!&amp;quot;) . Where have you been?</text></item><item><author>kbenson</author><text>In one respect, the gaffe is insignificant to current events.  In another, it&amp;#x27;s vastly more important, because while small it erodes the underpinnings of the system by which we actually disseminate information.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like having to choose between being upset about the person that mugged you for $500 on the street, or the bank that surreptitiously added 0.05% APR or the loan you just got for your house.  One feels more important in the moment, but the other has much farther reaching implications, not just to your pocketbook, but as to whether you can trust anything about that institution going forward.&lt;p&gt;If this is the beginning of a new trend for the Whitehouse where &lt;i&gt;nothing&lt;/i&gt; presented can be trusted, and it continues through future presidencies, I can definitely tell you which &lt;i&gt;I&lt;/i&gt; think will be more important in 20 years.</text></item><item><author>pavanred</author><text>I really wish people and the media stop over emphasizing about every gaffe and focus on real news stories. For instance, the &amp;quot;alternative facts&amp;quot; comment&amp;#x2F;incident is being talked about everywhere, from TV news channels to news parody shows to talk shows to social media etc. But, at the same time it seems like there is so much more important news that one would think deserves more attention like the executive orders, withdrawal from TPP, revival of oil pipelines, changes in healthcare spending etc. I even just saw news articles headlining on the guardian now about agencies being banned from sharing information on social media or to reporters and few journalists getting felony charges after covering the protests around the inauguration.&lt;p&gt;It almost makes me wonder if it would be a good idea if there was a website that covered the latest gaffe and the corresponding actual news worthy story that was lost out on optimal coverage because of it.&lt;p&gt;Edit: I couldn&amp;#x27;t find this before but here is an interesting article I read yesterday [0]. It&amp;#x27;s an opinion piece by Alexey Kovalev. - &amp;quot;I’ve reported on Putin – here are my tips for journalists dealing with Trump&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;commentisfree&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;jan&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;reported-putin-journalists-trump-media&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;commentisfree&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;jan&amp;#x2F;23&amp;#x2F;report...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>beloch</author><text>I must admit, I&amp;#x27;m really confused by how impeachment works in the U.S..  Clinton was impeached for perjury and abuse of power because he took advantage of his position (and a political intern) and then lied about it.&lt;p&gt;Now we have a president who is not giving up his business interests while in office and who has already told some absolute whoppers, including the release of official press releases that were nothing but &amp;quot;alternative facts&amp;quot;. Why tell such obvious falsehoods?  We&amp;#x27;re all laughing (nervously) now because the lies seem to be harmless, self-serving vain ones.  However, is Trump just a little insane, or is he actually finding out who is willing to say &amp;quot;We&amp;#x27;ve always been at war with Eurasia&amp;quot; and who isn&amp;#x27;t?&lt;p&gt;This is probably a good time for people to be reading 1984.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon</title><url>http://www.openculture.com/2017/01/george-orwells-1984-is-now-the-1-bestselling-book-on-amazon.html</url></story>