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by defaultname 1573 days ago
> You are taking a government's word for it

Canada is a parliamentary democracy, and the current governing party -- the ones who take all of the heat for every abuse -- are a minority government. They can fall at a moment's notice. Prime Minister in Canada isn't King, and instead is far less powerful than, for instance, the US president.

Yet *not a single case has been brought forward*. A couple of Conservative MPs have vaguely alluded to cases -- ones with almost no details, yet the few details that are brought up don't match any known donor lists (e.g. "Briane from Chilliwack") -- yet despite this being such an incredible hammer to take down this government, crickets.

So yes, I'll take the government's position on this.

"seal-clapping"

Ah, yes, "seal-clapping". That surely conveys the sincerity of your comment. Or we saw mass financing of public mayhem and realized that yes, this is a very real problem. It's a real problem that needs considerable solutions.

"purely because it's directed at a minority whom they have dehumanized for years"

A "minority"? This is perverse. By this measure, every deplorable subset is a protected minority that you will pearl clutch about. Won't someone think about the poor Nazis?

Financed mayhem will always come under the microscope.

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Would you please stop posting political and/or ideological flamewar comments to HN? It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you have a long history of breaking the rules here and we've had to warn you many times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27390797 (June 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27052599 (May 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27052375 (May 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26348969 (March 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23513080 (June 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23512934 (June 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23207243 (May 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18250891 (Oct 2018)

If you keep this up we're going to end up having to ban you, especially because you appear to be using HN primarily for this. That's a clear abuse of the site, so please stop.

What is the line here? Isn't the entire thread, including comments I'm responding to, political? I've had an account for 10 years.

I get the sense that whenever I'm in any thread where many others are making similar, political comments, somebody gets upset and flags mine and I'm the one punished. The parent comments are all political. So what is the line between flame bait and commenting on politics?

The most recent occurrence listed was me stating to someone they were suffering from cognitive dissonance in June. If you actually look at that comment, it's not exactly a brutal insult.

I think you do a great job moderating and I don't envy the task. I just feel like there are certain kinds of users who flag everyone that disagrees with them and gives me the impression that political comments that do not go against certain dominant ideologies never get flagged but mine do.

My recommendation is that if HN does not want political discussion on the site, they shouldn't allow political links to be posted. My comments were directly related to the digital jail article's contents. I don't really see how any conversation around a government freezing people's bank accounts as a form of digital punishment cannot be political.

I think these links contain answers to everything you've said here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23959679

If you take a look at those and still have questions that haven't been answered, let me know and I'll be happy to try filling in the gaps.