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Large contingent of 'no politics, not my business' in here.
by SenHeng 3y ago
Large contingent of 'no politics, not my business' in here.
- baybal2 3y ago[dead]
- _V_ 3y agoThat's kind of stupid - politics affect our lives whether we like it or not. Especially these kinds of events where Russia might collapse from within.
- api 3y agoYes but it’s part of how this site has avoided being sucked into the culture war vortex.
- _V_ 3y agoEven though these events were provoked by the war, they are important even without that connection. Possibility of civil war / regime change in Russa will inevitably hit everyone in the world. Some will get hit more, some less. Some only economically. Nothing to do with a culture war vortex. Burying your head in sand is not necessarily the smartest option although I understand that it is the easiest one.
- alphabettsy 3y agoIt’s absolutely hasn’t avoided that though. There are stories about culture war topics almost daily and multiple on the weekends.
- api 3y agoIf it wasn’t pushed back against it would take over the entire site and every thread would devolve into a rehashed flame war about Trump or gender issues or something. Then everyone else would leave.
- Redoubts 3y ago? There's a difference between not wanting to interact with this news, and not wanting to interact with this news on this forum.
- _V_ 3y agoSo just don't interact? You can simply not click that link. I don't think that I've hidden/misrepresented or clickbaited the title to force you to click... You may not want to interact, others may.
- mhh__ 3y ago*not my politics
- _V_ 3y agoWhy "not my politics" == flag?
- gary_0 3y agoA potential coup in one of the world's most populous countries, who are also in the midst of the largest war in Europe since WW2, is not just "politics". That's ridiculous. A major portion of Russia's de facto military, led by one of the country's most prominent figures, has left Ukraine and is heading for Moscow. This is history happening right in front of us. If HN was around in 1989, would the fall of the Berlin Wall have been [flagged] too?
- cuteboy19 3y agoWhatever else ... who has the nukes?
- baybal2 3y ago[dead]
- cmurf 3y agoYou are making a rational argument against an irrational and faceless adversary who wrote and continues to defend the guidelines which proscribe political discussion as being contemptuous. It's simply not the proper venue because the policy admits so much distain and misunderstanding of politics that it can't effectively carve out a proper space for such discussion. And further, the policy admits it cannot trust either participants or the voting system in place to manage such conversations. As soon as one person with power to flag, that's it. These conversations inevitably make HN management nervous. Since they can't cope with it, no one else is allowed to.
- berkes 3y agoThis war is highly relevant even to a fictional Silicon Valley Tech Elite, as it causes unprecedented inflation, stock market rollercoasters, tech platforms and companies getting banned, counter banned etc.
- lobocinza 3y agoMany are cyclops and believe that what they can't see can't harm them.
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- watwut 3y agoThere is a lot of politics on HN. It is one of the most common topics.
- pyb 3y agoIt will suddenly become their business if that Prigozhin thug seizes nuclear weapons.