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We don't do politics here?

mondoshawan 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html In general, yes. Politics aren't really on the discussion list here.
- ashtonkem 6y ago
  We don't do partisanship here, but we do do policy. And policy maps back to politics with trivial ease, although not always consistently.
NikolaNovak 6y ago
No clue why the sibling comment was not just down voted but flagged. But to kind of respond to it, my 0.0006 cents :) ed25519FUUU: "Generally curious, do we just basically ignore what happened in the Soviet Union, Cambodia, Vietnam, and China when we discuss the “community motivations” of communism and how that plays out?" - there's the political and economic philosophy, and then there are real world implementations, done with various degrees of honesty and varied goals - some will claim Russia etc are state capitalism or some other format rather than "pure communism" - some will point out that purest examples of practical communism, the Israeli Kibutz, were wildly successful (none of this is to indicate I have remotest interest in living in communism - in fact we ran across countries and continents to not be in one... But the theory is still interesting and in some ways relevant)
dang 6y ago
It depends on the story and thread. Generic "capitalism vs. communism" stuff is out because it's repetitive and tedious (and usually nasty) [1]. Same with political/ideological battle in general. Political flamewar is out because any flamewar is out [2]. Sensational/news-of-the-day/horse-race political stories are out because they're not intellectually interesting [2]. But curious, thoughtful conversation on topics with political overlap is ok on HN [3], and always has been [4]. [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=generic%20ideolog%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html [3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=political%20overlap%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html In general, yes. Politics aren't really on the discussion list here.

ashtonkem 6y ago
We don't do partisanship here, but we do do policy. And policy maps back to politics with trivial ease, although not always consistently.

NikolaNovak 6y ago

No clue why the sibling comment was not just down voted but flagged. But to kind of respond to it, my 0.0006 cents :) ed25519FUUU: "Generally curious, do we just basically ignore what happened in the Soviet Union, Cambodia, Vietnam, and China when we discuss the “community motivations” of communism and how that plays out?" - there's the political and economic philosophy, and then there are real world implementations, done with various degrees of honesty and varied goals - some will claim Russia etc are state capitalism or some other format rather than "pure communism" - some will point out that purest examples of practical communism, the Israeli Kibutz, were wildly successful (none of this is to indicate I have remotest interest in living in communism - in fact we ran across countries and continents to not be in one... But the theory is still interesting and in some ways relevant)

dang 6y ago

It depends on the story and thread. Generic "capitalism vs. communism" stuff is out because it's repetitive and tedious (and usually nasty) [1]. Same with political/ideological battle in general. Political flamewar is out because any flamewar is out [2]. Sensational/news-of-the-day/horse-race political stories are out because they're not intellectually interesting [2]. But curious, thoughtful conversation on topics with political overlap is ok on HN [3], and always has been [4]. [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=generic%20ideolog%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html [3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=political%20overlap%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869