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Comment by jasoneckert | Hacker News Reader

My knowledge of political events is sparse because I haven't dedicated the time it takes to acquire the prerequisite knowledge.

However, I'd be interested in learning more from those here who do have that knowledge and are willing to share perspective on these sort of events.

In general, I think it's valuable to be curious about things you're not necessarily interested in.

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Wikimedia maintains a world news section [0] that is well linked to the context. Hacker News is not optimized to provide the prerequisite context for a topic like this. Topics like these attract bikeshedding value statements rather than extended breakdowns of topics and links to primary sources.

[0] https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page

Everything you say can be true and it doesn't change the fact the HN would be worse because of it.

HN is a place I come to escape the rest of the internet.

I hope it doesn't get ruined by politics, like everything else in the world seems to have been.

There are usually a few threads discussing major or controversial political news. Dang is good about collapsing them and keeping things isolated there. It is pretty easy to avoid these threads and they fall off the front page quickly. I don’t think they add much to HN, but I like to skim them as this community’s take is the least biased.

There was a busy front page thread for each of Obama's election wins, Trump's First, and Biden's win. There were numerous busy threads on the Obama campaign's use of technology leading up to his first election. I'd say it's working out okay ~15 years into the experiment of unkilling certain historically significant political threads.

I like hearing and considering arguments to change the status quo.

I already understand the status quo, so I don't enjoy hearing arguments which defend the status quo.

What's the status quo?

This is simply not a good forum for that, precisely because it's populated by people whose knowledge of political events is sparse.

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