This isn't r/news. Nothing wrong with breaking news. It just doesn't belong on hacker news. A lot of people here care about the signal to noise ratio. Allowing

This isn't r/news. Nothing wrong with breaking news. It just doesn't belong on hacker news. A lot of people here care about the signal to noise ratio. Allowing discussions like this here adds what many people consider noise. Ironically, this is one only places where it is possible to see a sensible political discussion without it into a cesspool / circle jerk.