That debatable. I’ve seen plenty of constructive criticism of government policies on this site.

If this was constructive criticism I wouldn’t have said anything. Not that hard to clean it up, if you want to use an article about Portugal’s renewable policy to make a point about homelessness in California, and the governance of it, then just make your point without demonizing people, give constructive criticism (i.e. this is bad because the outcomes for society are bad, as evidenced by [x] and [y] and I think California should be doing Z, which worked in Z country, here are the outcomes: [z_link]

Demonizing violent junkies is kinda key to my constructive criticism.

Cool. Take it somewhere else. You can pop off on X or Facebook or whatever, that content doesn’t belong on HN.

You’ll get flagged and removed on HN for talking like that. Check the contribution guidelines, ask @dang yourself if you don’t believe me.

I’m sure you’re chaffing at me even suggesting moderate speech here, but this corner of the internet isn’t polluted like the others. I don’t use social media, I use this, for that reason. I’m just asking you to abide by the ground rules