The downvotes and flags were correct. You took the thread on a classic generic flamewar tangent. The guidelines specifically ask you not to do that: "Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Then you broke them again ("Did you know the mRNA shots") and again ("Pfizer tried to hide their clinical data") and again ("Downvotes are [etc.]") and again ("you're so reactive emotionally"), and so on, pouring fuel on the fire and taking the thread extremely offtopic. All that is obviously against the rules and amounts to vandalism.

We've been asking you to follow the site guidelines for years now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30197457 (Feb 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26116840 (Feb 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22274517 (Feb 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21195104 (Oct 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19815709 (May 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18132361 (Oct 2018)

... yet you've continued to do it regularly:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32668726 (Aug 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32453743 (Aug 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32207241 (July 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32206640 (July 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32040335 (July 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31706537 (June 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31706382 (June 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31635513 (June 2022)

In fact I'm finding it hard to find a recent comment by your account that isn't political battle, breaking the site guidelines, or (most often) both.

You're way into bannable territory. I'm not going to ban you right now, but if you keep this up we're going to have to. HN is trying to be a specific type of website. You're not just using it against the intended spirit, you're contributing to destroying it. We can't allow that, so please stop doing it.