Perhaps we could've detached the original parent comment, but this one was flagged by users for being overtly political, which they were asked to do this week:

Perhaps we could've detached the original parent comment, but this one was flagged by users for being overtly political, which they were asked to do this week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404. We don't always snip threads in just the right place, but when the community sends us a strong signal we often go with that.