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I thought politics was a no-no here?
by mixmax 18y ago
I thought politics was a no-no here?
- lallysingh 18y agoI suspect it's really more political debating on HN that's an issue. It's so close to the election most of us are likely looking at political news in another tab, anyways.
- mixmax 18y agoYou're probably right. It was more meant as a subtle hint instead of the all too common "not hacker news" comments. Besides, not all of us are from the US...
- compay 18y agoNeither's The Economist. ;-)
- technoguyrob 18y agoOh wow, learn something new each day, huh...
- Prrometheus 18y agoI love that magazine. It's hard to get such a global perspective from any other periodical.
- kingkongrevenge 18y agoIt's very good for getting an easily digestible survey of world news, but the business and economic analysis articles are horrible. It's all so "pop" and way behind the curve if you read better newsletters. It's also annoyingly leftist and pro-war; they pushed hard for the Iraq invasion, for example.
- lawrence 18y ago"annoyingly leftist and pro war" - that's not a combination you hear every day.
- kingkongrevenge 18y agoIt's not odd if you don't conflate the meaning of left and right with Democrat and Republican. The Bush administration has been solidly left.
- emmett 18y agoBush is No True Scotsman, apparently.
- kingkongrevenge 18y agoI'm not sure what you're getting at. Bush is a national socialist, and an imperialist. He fooled some conservatives in 2000 when he talked quite a bit of the talk, but that fell apart quickly. In modern American history warmongering has overwhelmingly been the business of the left. Guns and butter and all that. Go count up military actions and pair them to presidents.
- Prrometheus 18y agoThere have been many wars by left-wing governments in world history, even in recent world history. Wasn't Johnson the one that escalated the war in Vietnam?
- yan 18y agoBesides, I think it's clear that this election will have ramifications far outside the borders of the US...
- Prrometheus 18y agoSo post election news, just don't talk about it?
- trickjarrett 18y agoMaybe we should form a spinoff like hackerpoliticalnews.com or itshackernewsandpoliticalnews.com! I mean seriously guys, I come to YC News to avoid the blasting of politics I get on any other website.
- functionoid 18y agoI'd take this blasting for 4 days if people can learn and make informed decision rather than taking 4 years of blasting.
- axod 18y agoIf all readers were in the US, perhaps. But we're not.
- rms 18y ago"election silly season"
- davidw 18y agoSupposedly, but if pg and company are not willing to enforce it, then I suppose it's ok. If you can't beat them, join them, I guess: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=349139 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=349139
- pg 18y agoUnless a political story is big enough to affect hackers, or related to things hackers care about. Tim O'Reilly endorsing Obama seems safely in the territory of hacker news. The Economist is closer to the borderline, but arguably ok as the newsmagazine whose articles appear most here.