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Political talk is abnormal? The number of conversations I've had about Trump recently must make me an outlier, then.

• blisterpeanuts 10y ago
  You live in Gaza?
• dang 10y ago
  We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11859233 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11859233 and marked it off-topic.
  • dannypgh 10y ago
    Perhaps I should have been more direct with my point: I think it is disrespectful to Palestinians to expect that their "normal conversation" doesn't include any sort of reference to their political realities, as political realities are part of everyone's normal, in any society that acts even under the pretense of democracy (and Hamas was elected). It would have been odd if people living in a territory that had electricity for six hours daily and mostly closed/highly regulated borders didn't have normal conversation about topics that are, inherently, political.
    • bbcbasic 10y ago
      I think you are overanalyzing the post that used the word "normal". I think he/she was talking colloquially and didn't mean to imply that political talk is abnormal.
  • borski 10y ago
    So, this is cool. I had absolutely no idea you could even do that. Kudos.