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> A few other things I noticed scrolling through: > There are very, very few politics stories What? This is contradicted by the list of top stories given just
by ForHackernews 6y ago
> A few other things I noticed scrolling through:
> There are very, very few politics stories
What? This is contradicted by the list of top stories given just above!
1. “‘It’s a lot of pain’: George Floyd’s brother tearfully demands police reforms during emotional hearing” (NBC News)
2. “Jon Ossoff wins Georgia’s Democratic Senate primary” (NPR)
3. “Trump will return to campaign trail with rally in Tulsa” (New York Times)
4. “Coronavirus is making a comeback in Arizona” (NBC News)
5. “2020 is the summer of the road trip. Unless you’re black.” (New York Times)
6. “Starbucks is closing up to 400 stores in shift to takeout strategy” (CNN)
7. “Amazon bans police from using its facial recognition technology for the next year” (The Verge)
8. “J. K. Rowling doubles down in what some critics call a ‘transphobic manifesto'” (NBC News)
9. “The protests come for ‘Paw Patrol'” (The New York Times)
10. “Upcoming Nintendo Switch exclusive canceled” (ComicBook.com)
2 & 3 are explicitly political, 1, 5, 7, 8 and 9 are perhaps not about electoral politics, but still focus on hot-button political issues of the day.
In what world are these "very few politics" stories?
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- Consultant32452 6y agoWar is Peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
- WhatIsDukkha 6y agoIn the world of people that finished the author's sentence - """There are very, very few politics stories — almost nothing about the Trump/Biden race, for instance.""" They explicitly bounded what they meant by politics.
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- ForHackernews 6y agoGrammatically "for instance" is a non-restrictive clause in that sentence. It adds information, but it doesn't narrow the meaning of what preceded it.
- surround 6y agoNumber 3 from the Facebook News list is “Trump will return to campaign trail with rally in Tulsa” Whereas the Facebook popular list has nothing explicitly about the Trump/Biden race.