[doctor_eval]

Before. That’s why I bothered to look it up. And that’s when I discovered that the “savages” were actually employees of the Tongan government acting with the authority of the Pacific Forum.

You’re not very good at this “good faith” business are you, friend?

[dang]

I've banned the other user for breaking the site guidelines, but it's not ok for you to break the site guidelines either, no matter how bad someone else's comments are or you feel they are.

We've already had to warn you about this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38527261), and you've unfortunately continued to break the site guidelines badly—for example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40755184

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40754575

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40745407

If you keep abusing HN like this we're going to have to ban you as well, so please stick to the rules from now on. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.