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Rural Canadians are eating up trump style rhetoric as fast as it can be minted. Canada is next. There’s no escape from this kind of madness.

by a2tech 2y ago

cmrdporcupine 2y ago
Yeah I live rural Ontario. Last municipal election people's lawns were covered with idiotic "Stop Woke" signs. And my parents are in rural Alberta. Oh boy. Not with a bang but a whimper, etc. etc.
- DeathArrow 2y ago
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  - cmrdporcupine 2y ago
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    - dang 2y ago
      You can't post like this to HN, and we have to ban accounts that do. I certainly don't want to ban you, so please don't. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
      - cmrdporcupine 2y ago
        Fair enough but you need to deal with the proliferation of troll accounts and pointless political sniping that's propagated on here in the last couple of years. The person I replied to was not engaging in good faith discussion, which is evident simply by looking at everything else they posted yesterday.
        dredmorbius 2y ago
        As much as I feel that HN's tone policing is de facto defence of status quoism, guidelines here are that direct personal attacks aren't permitted. However you may be pleased to know that ideological battle isn't either. If you can't find a suitably witty or effective response, none is often better. You don't have to attend every argument you're invited to. You can also email mods at hn@ycombinator.com with issues. I do this frequently on all manner of points, most often title or URL issues, but other guidelines violations as well, and often that results in accounts being banned. As dang has said many times, you can't attack others no matter how wrong they are (<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20no%20matter%20how%20wrong&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>), and provocation itself isn't a justification to violatue guidelines yourself (<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20violate%20guidelines%20regardless&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>) and <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20don%27t%20respond%20by%20breaking%20guidelines&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>). Trust me that this can be sorely aggrevating and crossing the lines tempting, but you'll ultimately be a more persuasive and effective advocate working within the rules here.

Rural Canadians are eating up trump style rhetoric as fast as it can be minted. Canada is next. There’s no escape from this kind of madness.

by a2tech 2y ago

Rural Canadians are eating up trump style rhetoric as fast as it can be minted. Canada is next. There’s no escape from this kind of madness.

cmrdporcupine 2y ago

Yeah I live rural Ontario. Last municipal election people's lawns were covered with idiotic "Stop Woke" signs. And my parents are in rural Alberta. Oh boy. Not with a bang but a whimper, etc. etc.

DeathArrow 2y ago
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- cmrdporcupine 2y ago
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  - dang 2y ago
    You can't post like this to HN, and we have to ban accounts that do. I certainly don't want to ban you, so please don't. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    - cmrdporcupine 2y ago
      Fair enough but you need to deal with the proliferation of troll accounts and pointless political sniping that's propagated on here in the last couple of years. The person I replied to was not engaging in good faith discussion, which is evident simply by looking at everything else they posted yesterday.
      - dredmorbius 2y ago
        As much as I feel that HN's tone policing is de facto defence of status quoism, guidelines here are that direct personal attacks aren't permitted. However you may be pleased to know that ideological battle isn't either. If you can't find a suitably witty or effective response, none is often better. You don't have to attend every argument you're invited to. You can also email mods at hn@ycombinator.com with issues. I do this frequently on all manner of points, most often title or URL issues, but other guidelines violations as well, and often that results in accounts being banned. As dang has said many times, you can't attack others no matter how wrong they are (<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20no%20matter%20how%20wrong&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>), and provocation itself isn't a justification to violatue guidelines yourself (<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20violate%20guidelines%20regardless&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>) and <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20don%27t%20respond%20by%20breaking%20guidelines&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>). Trust me that this can be sorely aggrevating and crossing the lines tempting, but you'll ultimately be a more persuasive and effective advocate working within the rules here.