sitting and watching cbc comments change in real-time is always fun, because you can actually see the upvotes decrease in front of you.

this is the statement:

"phasing out the tar sands *is* a populist position."

the upvotes go up....and then they come down, because this is a statement that cannot be upvoted.

to be clear: the ups and downs are independent. clicking down shouldn't decrease the ups. it's just being manipulated. and, like i say, you can watch it happen if you sit and wait.