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Re:2022 Letter by FooBarWidget on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @10:34AM (#35056460)
What's the point of raising all these things? I can dispute those claims but at this point it doesn't matter one bit whether those claims are actually true or not.

How does flooding the media with such claims improve human rights in China? They achieve no positive effects for anyone in China: sanctions and war only hurt people. They are also spectacularly effective at making the lives of Asians in the west miserable.

Yet you keep myopically focusing on these claims, heedless of the actual harm they do to innocent people, just so that you can feel like you're being virtuous for raising these claims. You are not actually supporting human rights, you are abusing the very concept to feel good about yourself.

Re:2022 Letter by philliphaydon on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @11:16AM (#35057090)
See what I mean, you care more about saving face than the people suffering. "none of its true, I can dispute it, its you who is wrong"

Look, I don't know why you keep replying to me. No one buys your propaganda and conspiracy theories and whataboutism. You can keep getting upset all you want but it doesn't change the fact you're doing nothing more than attempting to protect the CCP.

Re:2022 Letter by FooBarWidget on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @12:07PM (#35057862)
No that's not what I said at all. I said I have the ability to dispute, not that I am disputing, because in the end the truth of those claims don't matter one bit and that outcomes for people is the only thing that matters. Huge difference.

Now you are completely dodging the point that your attitude only causes bad outcomes for real people, while simultaneously accusing me of "propaganda". You aren't even denying that in the end you don't care about the wellbeing of people at all, and that we're just cannon fodder in your holy fight against the CCP.

I am sorry for not wanting myself or anybody else to become such cannon fodder. That is not "saving face", that is preventing people's faces from getting slammed on the streets, and preventing a bomb from being dropped on my aunt! As such, I will continue to protest your attitude.

Re:2022 Letter by dang on Thursday March 09, 2023 @02:28AM (#35079029)
You've also broken the site guidelines in this thread and continued to do exactly what we asked you not do to in the past. I'm not going to ban your account right now because (a) I don't think you broke the guidelines quite as badly as the other account did in this thread (though I haven't read it closely), (b) I understand what it's like to be representing a minority view, and (c) we haven't given you nearly as many past warnings. But you're seriously breaking the HN guidelines here and we've warned you before. If you keep this up, we're going to end up having to ban you as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, when I look through your comments, it seems that you've been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. That's another line at which we ban accounts, because that's absolutely not the intended use of this site. If your primary interest is to argue about politics and national/ethnic/ideological struggles, HN is not the site you're looking for. Please don't keep doing this.

Past explanations are here, in case they're helpful: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

Re:2022 Letter by dang on Thursday March 09, 2023 @02:26AM (#35079027)
You've broken the site guidelines so badly in this thread that I've banned your account. This is a longstanding pattern and it's seriously not cool on this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34786906 (Feb 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34227145 (Jan 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29665289 (Dec 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29407968 (Dec 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28590539 (Sept 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22893867 (April 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22880789 (April 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22827321 (April 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22827309 (April 2020)

I hate to ban you, because you've been here a long time and you've posted good things. But this kind of abuse is simply not ok, and if we don't ban accounts that break the rules this badly and ignore this many warnings, we might as well ban nobody at all.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email [email protected] and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.