>Because said person is sitting here saying "HN is stupid", it has nothing to do with the police, but the audience he's going after.

I said that if you go into policy discussions where HN is pro regulation you can see all sorts of commenters cheering for the pro-jackboot takes and peddlers thereof.

It's a subtle distinction between that and "the whole place is stupid" but it's there.

> I'm griping about his attempts to smear random people on this forum.

Want me to name names? I can go right down the leader board saying who wants jackboot applied and on what policy axis. I don't think that's productive.