Not sure if this makes me more or less "complicit" (except insofar as such perceptions are monotonic, so can only become more, never less), but I have to agree with the flaggers here. OP is an opinion piece about a Major Ongoing Topic that is so major and so ongoing that the bar for Significant New Information is too high for most opinion pieces to clear.
If that convoluted sentence doesn't make sense, it's probably because I'm using HN moderation jargon—but there are many explanations available:
major ongoing topics: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
significant new information: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
how we handle stories with political overlap: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...