If I recall, the plot was some ancient entity telling you "Bad stuff will happen if alchemy gets released" and "go fix it", then later you find out bad things are currently happening because alchemy is not released (re: the world is literally falling apart), so you switch sides to let it out. I don't recall anything explicitly bad about alchemy, other than it being abusable.
Apparently I didn't go back quite far enough then. CTRL+F imp got me a whole bunch of approved comments ~25 days ago, so I assumed that meant he was still good. Took a few more pages to find the ban. Apparently he was banned and THEN all his comments were approved. Kind of weird, but whatever.
I've managed to get into a nice place where my family (and just about anyone else who knows me) knows if they want to get me something, I accept food, and pretty much only food. It's 1000x better than random junk, and only lasts a week at most. It also goes in reverse; I tend to give gifts of homemade treats personalized to the receiver, so someone who hates sweets doesn't get sweet things.
I've received a lot of expensive junk over the years, but my favourite and most memorable gift is a sandwich.
Interesting. I don't really have anything to say about it in that case, except for maybe a distant "We're eventually going to be the majority here and I don't want my husband brutally oppressing me with this in the future".
Actual Canadians probably wouldn't say anything. And if it was White Canadians it'd be framed in a negative light. So I can only assume that means one or more "minority" groups in occupied territories is worried about having to share.