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This does seem like a contradiction of rules.

• dang 7y ago
  There's no rule against politics on HN as such (and never has been: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869). The rule is against garden-variety politics—the kind with no intellectually interesting aspect: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Many good HN submissions have some political overlap. That's inevitable and fine as long as people don't use the site for political battle, which takes discussions out of the range this site exists for (the curiosity range). I've written about this a fair bit: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0&query=by:dang%20political%20overlap https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
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  • bryanrasmussen 7y ago
    The no political battle rule though seems to make all direct U.S politics off limits however.
    • dang 7y ago
      It's a question of what the community is capable of. If a thread can substantively discuss some interesting topic that overlaps with "direct U.S. politics", that's fine. If it degenerates into political battle and flamewar, it's off topic. Preserving the container takes precedence.