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Why has this been posted here? Because it relates to the public doings of YC, which are always on-topic (overriding the "no politics per se" rule).

• giardini 10y ago
  Indeed? The logic of your well-thought out and ponderous argument is utterly overwhelming. Might have as well said "Because we can!"
  • kafkaesq 10y ago
    The logic of your well-thought out and ponderous argument is utterly overwhelming. Actually it's a pretty straightforward consequence of the HN guidelines, which clearly do not forbid all political discussion; just "politics for its own sake", i.e. political talk not strongly anchored in some other intrinsically legitimate topic.
    • giardini 10y ago
      Perhaps you could kindly update the HN guidelines, since they don't say that.
      • kafkaesq 10y ago
        That's OK, they're straightforward enough, as they stand. I'm sure you understand the meaning of the quantifier "most" in the second paragraph (as opposed to the word "all" which you seem to be imagining in it place). On top of this, the moderators (which are very active on high-traffic threads) would have shut down this thread long ago, if they felt it was in contravention of these guidelines (as they quite routinely, in fact).