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> Not sure why the post above has been downvoted to 0. Too bad. It's some of the best research we've ever done. Any post on HN that implies that anyone other t
by downandout 10y ago
> Not sure why the post above has been downvoted to 0. Too bad. It's some of the best research we've ever done.
Any post on HN that implies that anyone other than Vladimir Putin himself is responsible for Clinton's defeat will get downvotes...I've lost about 15 points on various posts downplaying this narrative. The Silicon Valley crowd simply cannot tolerate any hint of an alternate narrative.
- solarengineer 10y agoHN participants are now from all over the world. I'm an Indian in Singapore, for e.g.
- topynate 10y agoTrue enough (I'm in Israel. Hi!) but despite a good measure of international interest, it's the Americans who are most likely to have a strong emotional reaction to this topic. It's their election, after all. I really dislike +/- voting on political comments for just this reason; too easy to convince oneself that a downvote is merited.
- polotics 10y agoHi! I disagree. On such a sensitive subject it's paid shills, overwhelmingly.
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- wwweston 10y agoLots of things get downvotes that don't represent a gestalt of HN opinions: the idea that JS is an acceptable programming language, that .NET is a reasonable platform for development, that sending JSON to the client isn't necessarily an improvement over sending markup. Just because your opinion is opposed doesn't mean dissent isn't allowed. It is pretty ridiculous to assert that the election's outcome lies primarily on Putin. On the other hand, Trump's victory was pretty thin, and that invites speculation that if certain influences hadn't been present, the election might well have gone the other way. Russian influence is one among many, but it's among the most disturbing, which is one reason people have strong feelings about dismissing it.