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This article is not intellectually stimulating and not valuable for the health of the community. Believe it or not, there are a lot of 1) non-Americans and 2)
by jacoblyles 15y ago
This article is not intellectually stimulating and not valuable for the health of the community.
Believe it or not, there are a lot of 1) non-Americans and 2) non-Democrats on Hacker News. Maybe we can skip the Obama-hype this time around the election cycle. Four years of national transformation and transcendence is enough.
- raldi 15y agoYou're painting this as a "Obama eats a ham sandwich" story, but I think there's a big-picture trend that you're missing. The news is of interest to HN because it's a sign of how the Internet and social media continues to have an ever-rising impact on major world politics. To put it another way, are Twitter and Facebook and Reddit just procrastination engines, or might they be important, world-changing tools? Stories like this help answer that question.