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It's not about nationalism, it's about human rights and proper behavior towards other people. If the UK can not behave themselves, I see no reason for them to n

It's not about nationalism, it's about human rights and proper behavior towards other people. If the UK can not behave themselves, I see no reason for them to not receive equal treatment, perhaps even sactions and mass deportation of their citizens. The EU, and all the members have a responsibility first and foremost to their constituents, and their constituents are getting thrown in jails, for no fault of their own, just the vindictiveness of the Brits. There is no flame war, I am literally asking for our Governments to take action.

dang 5y ago
Sorry, but this is squarely in the middle of what counts as nationalistic flamewar. I don't mean you're arguing from a nationalistic political position. I just mean you're posting flamewar comments about nations. Please stop posting flamewar comments about anything on HN. We don't want that sort of discussion here. By flamewar I mean things like indignant provocation and denunciatory rhetoric (especially on divisive topics). You made numerous such posts in this thread—that's really bad, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. It goes against what we're trying to achieve here (thoughtful, curious conversation on intellectually interesting topics) and it does so by doing the equivalent of setting the commons on fire. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules, we'd appreciate it. Note this one: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive." From a quick look at your account history it seems that your comments have traditionally been excellent, so this should be pretty easy to fix.
- PartiallyTyped 5y ago
  I would like to apologise for my behavior, I understand that I should have behaved better. I didn't mean to cause a flamewar, after reading the article I was infuriated but I understand that we should strive to uphold high standards on everyone, especially ourselves.

dang 5y ago

Sorry, but this is squarely in the middle of what counts as nationalistic flamewar. I don't mean you're arguing from a nationalistic political position. I just mean you're posting flamewar comments about nations. Please stop posting flamewar comments about anything on HN. We don't want that sort of discussion here. By flamewar I mean things like indignant provocation and denunciatory rhetoric (especially on divisive topics). You made numerous such posts in this thread—that's really bad, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. It goes against what we're trying to achieve here (thoughtful, curious conversation on intellectually interesting topics) and it does so by doing the equivalent of setting the commons on fire. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules, we'd appreciate it. Note this one: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive." From a quick look at your account history it seems that your comments have traditionally been excellent, so this should be pretty easy to fix.

PartiallyTyped 5y ago
I would like to apologise for my behavior, I understand that I should have behaved better. I didn't mean to cause a flamewar, after reading the article I was infuriated but I understand that we should strive to uphold high standards on everyone, especially ourselves.