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> 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

> 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.

busymom0 5y ago
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    > If you dislike democracy because your guy isn't in charge, you don't like democracy and should just accept that fact and save the rhetoric. You think the war measures act like the Emergencies Act is "democracy"? Blacks, indigenous and hispanics have the lowest rates of vaccination in both Canada and US. If you think they are all "attempting an insurrection with daily QAnon rallies", you are living in alternate universe. I was there at the protest for 3 weekends and many of the people I met were vaxxed but opposed mandates. My buddy I was there with was also vaxxed but he took it because of coercion from the federal government because he works for them. There were nurses who took care of COVID patients for 2 years, gained natural immunity from infection and then were fired for not taking an unnecessary shot. There was even a vaxxed lady whose grandmother is 108 years old, had been given 4 shots and yet the nursing home isn't allowing them to meet in person due to COVID. These aren't political points which you are trying to make. The second part of your comment tells me you aren't able to have a civil dialogue without ad-hominem attacks. Please read HN's guidelines before making such comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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        dang 5y ago
        Would you please stop doing political/ideological flamewar on HN? It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. We ban accounts that do it, regardless of what ideology they favor or disfavor, so please don't. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: you've been posting about nothing else for literally weeks now. That's seriously uncool, and we've had to ask you more than once before not to do this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29181106 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29181106 (Nov 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27168859 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27168859 (May 2021) Worse than that, it appears that you've abused HN badly with many previous accounts and been banned many times in the past. All that put together is so egregious that I've banned this account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll use the site as intended in the future.
        defaultname 5y ago
        "Edit: you've been posting about nothing else for literally weeks now." This is beyond parody. It's as if your moderation is purpose driven to elevate and amplify disinformation, and that actually useful, meaningful discussion has disappeared from this site. Congratulations, HN continues its descent to utter irrelevance. Now featuring literally daily QAnon nonsense, which you never moderate or threaten bans about (even after the few reasonable users try to flag and moderate). It's incredible that every one of my comments, in response to grossly ignorant nonsense, were highly upvoted by users. Then along comes dang, enabler of alt-right QAnon horseshit. Cheers.
JPKab 5y ago
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- dang 5y ago
  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 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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27390797 (June 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27052599 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27052599 (May 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27052375 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27052375 (May 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26348969 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26348969 (March 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23513080 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23513080 (June 2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23512934 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23512934 (June 2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23207243 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23207243 (May 2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18250891 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.
  - JPKab 5y ago
    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.

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- busymom0 5y ago
  > If you dislike democracy because your guy isn't in charge, you don't like democracy and should just accept that fact and save the rhetoric. You think the war measures act like the Emergencies Act is "democracy"? Blacks, indigenous and hispanics have the lowest rates of vaccination in both Canada and US. If you think they are all "attempting an insurrection with daily QAnon rallies", you are living in alternate universe. I was there at the protest for 3 weekends and many of the people I met were vaxxed but opposed mandates. My buddy I was there with was also vaxxed but he took it because of coercion from the federal government because he works for them. There were nurses who took care of COVID patients for 2 years, gained natural immunity from infection and then were fired for not taking an unnecessary shot. There was even a vaxxed lady whose grandmother is 108 years old, had been given 4 shots and yet the nursing home isn't allowing them to meet in person due to COVID. These aren't political points which you are trying to make. The second part of your comment tells me you aren't able to have a civil dialogue without ad-hominem attacks. Please read HN's guidelines before making such comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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        dang 5y ago
        Would you please stop doing political/ideological flamewar on HN? It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. We ban accounts that do it, regardless of what ideology they favor or disfavor, so please don't. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: you've been posting about nothing else for literally weeks now. That's seriously uncool, and we've had to ask you more than once before not to do this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29181106 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29181106 (Nov 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27168859 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27168859 (May 2021) Worse than that, it appears that you've abused HN badly with many previous accounts and been banned many times in the past. All that put together is so egregious that I've banned this account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll use the site as intended in the future.
        defaultname 5y ago
        "Edit: you've been posting about nothing else for literally weeks now." This is beyond parody. It's as if your moderation is purpose driven to elevate and amplify disinformation, and that actually useful, meaningful discussion has disappeared from this site. Congratulations, HN continues its descent to utter irrelevance. Now featuring literally daily QAnon nonsense, which you never moderate or threaten bans about (even after the few reasonable users try to flag and moderate). It's incredible that every one of my comments, in response to grossly ignorant nonsense, were highly upvoted by users. Then along comes dang, enabler of alt-right QAnon horseshit. Cheers.

JPKab 5y ago

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dang 5y ago
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 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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27390797 (June 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27052599 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27052599 (May 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27052375 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27052375 (May 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26348969 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26348969 (March 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23513080 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23513080 (June 2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23512934 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23512934 (June 2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23207243 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23207243 (May 2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18250891 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.
- JPKab 5y ago
  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.