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Why wouldn't you just hide it or ignore it?

• jakelazaroff 6y ago
  Because I think having the same (mostly tribal) political discussion ad nauseum harms the community.
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  • 0-_-0 6y ago
    More optimistically, it allows the community to blow off steam in threads you don't read
    • dang 6y ago
      Steam is not a good analogy. A better analogy is fire. Steam blows off, fire spreads.
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  • ddalex 6y ago
    If people had cancelled Greenwald this way years ago perhaps nobody would have learned of Snowden's disclosures. Who knows what we will never learn because people want to avoid certain type of discussions