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Misogyny, peddling conspiracy theories and blatant victim blaming are acceptable though? How about sarcasm?

Not every country is the United States of America, and freedom of speech is not exclusively defined by amendments to an American constitution.

You can ban the nazi symbols & language and still have freedom of speech.

I think I have the title for my next bestseller: “from a visioner to a quisling: how to destroy one's reputation in three to five tweets”.

Well, it's an agent-less system after all, the idea is to keep the system lean.

Incredibly. But it seems to be The Ruby Way™…

Seen that approach in production, had to work with it, was not very impressed.

To add a bit more context: I think that the author came to use git /after/ they learned mercurial. For a long time mercurial's history was completely immutable, and hg's branches are very different from git ones (the mercurial equivalent of git branches is called bookmarks).

perhaps he had mistaken broomsticks with pitchforks…

How odd, bringing up the past to explain the present.

How about we make everyone a monarch and everyone's house a castle?

…ah that fragile ego of the orange site's participants…

The stuffed giraffe, I presume.

> We tried having a 'Men's Shed' in our town, but I think it got shut down by a bunch of harpies.

happy is a place where the mythical Greek creatures dwell, and where they have enough good sense to shut down questionable establishments

> I voted for it in the Irish election recently even though I had to visit 4 polling stations to get it in properly

I call bullshit. Everyone here knows it was a referendum, not an election, and everyone here knows where they're supposed to vote

regarding the homosexuality scare, it's the right and conservatives you have to thank for, not the left.

That is a lovely joke though.

If being rational would correlate with getting rich, one would live in a rather interesting place.

> This submission has received a huge number of user flags. We've overridden flags and other software penalties for several of these stories already for being related to YC, but our primary duty is to the community and we have to let it protect itself from being ripped apart by politics.

Surely, you jest.

Let me point you at one gentleman's comment left a few weeks ago on another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11850889.

Just like being a rapist and a fugitive stopped Polański from continuing his film-making career. Really.

Consider: “officer Batman shot metaphorm dead” vs. “officer Batman's weapon discharged killing metaphorm”.

Paul Elam.

Oh dear. Who comes next, Elam?

aren't you easily persuaded…

That being a conspiracy would be actually quite comforting, wouldn't it?

Unfortunately, I think the simpler explanation – that humanity fails at being both human and humane – is more probable.

I'm not sure bringing up Gomeshi's case as an example of false accusation is such a very good idea, though.

Don't let reading Raymond warp your mind. Also, this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11850930.

What's wrong with being a socialist (or even a communist)?

It's usually not a first choice, but the tourist starts the game wearing it.

Do substantiate.

Good luck at your next meeting with the firing squad!

Bo-hoo-hoo. Cry me a river.