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something something “overly political”

There's a contact email in the footer for queries like that and requests to restore.

Users with high enough karma can also vouch for flagged posts, though anything involving politics will usually get mass flagged as soon as anyone does that.

Not in this case. The post was marked as flagged, but likely by staff, with no vouch option.

I don't find this kind of article interesting or novel (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), specially as someone outside the US.

I mean I sort of get it. HN isn't really the place for discussing this (ref. HN Guidelines[1]), and judging by the past two weeks, the Trump administration will do something as discussion-worthy as this at least every day for the next 4 years.

If each such instance gets a thread here, it will be pretty bad for Hacker News, an Eternal September-like event.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

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