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At the time of this comment: (6 hours after OP) 14 mentions of Trump. 8 mentions of Bush. 2 mentions of Reagan. vs. 10 wistful mentions of Hillary Clinton
by EekSnakePond 10y ago
At the time of this comment: (6 hours after OP)
14 mentions of Trump. 8 mentions of Bush. 2 mentions of Reagan.
vs.
10 wistful mentions of Hillary Clinton being the better choice. 4 mentions of Obama. 1 mention of Bill Clinton expanding ECHELON.
Obama had 8 years building and using it this entire apparatus, after 8 years of Bush putting it into place after 9/11. Trump had been taking it for a test drive over the past 2 weeks.
Can we please rename HN to "Silicon Valley and Democrats Only" so lurkers know what they are getting into?
- jarjoura 10y agoHow about we try not to shame liberals? This is a community and we should all be respectful of each other. Don't take comments of a president current or past so personally.
- theWatcher37 10y agoThe amount of "shame" from liberals is off the charts, not sure why you're upset by one comment to the contrary. Above the parent comment is a chain essentially saying "lets dispel this notion of reasonable republicans"
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- elastic_church 10y agoWhere Republicans are the diversity hire.
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- Strom 10y agoI'm not from Silicon Valley and don't identify as a democrat. I've never even visited the Americas. Throughout my years on HN I've seen that there are plenty others like me on HN. To say HN is for "Silicon Valley and Democrats Only" is very naive.
- tinalumfoil 10y agoI'm also not located in silicon and not really a Democrat, but I agree with the parent. HN readers tend to be irrationally biased towards members of certain political parties, and I think it's healthy and constructive to point this out.
- EekSnakePond 10y agoDear sibling comments, Trump is now at 35 mentions. If this post was a data science task, you'd get a false positive of causality.
- EekSnakePond 10y agoTrump is now at 43 mentions. Obama is at 8.