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Comment by absurdo | Hacker News Reader

Yup. This is what we’ve had to endure on HN for the last decade. It’s been an incredibly frustrating site to comment on and frankly I want dang and tomhow to just prohibit political and quasi political articles. Other sites can be used for mindless shit-flinging.

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Almost everything that has any impact in the world is political:

The clothes we wear, the food we eat, where and how our children are schooled, the devices and services we have available, consumer rights for said devices and services, etc.

As valid of a point as it may be, it’s absolutely trite in this context. You can infer and separate degrees of politics from hackers-as-hackers. Piling on Trump has zero utility to hackers. Think about it for a moment.

We already tried the whole "not resisting fascist-adjacent people every living second" and it didn't turn out great for a lot of people. Think about it for a moment.

I think this article is pretty material. I work in RF tech and the regulatory side of the business is very important. But that's the key, poltical topics can be materially relevant to technical topics. There is a large gray area and I think the HN community does a nice job preventing actual abuse.

You're going to end up with 10 people talking back and forth with the same groupthink and nothing of real substance will ever get discussed.

What a nice hole to shove your head in to ignore the world around you.

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