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In the past, dang has occasionally allowed mainstream politics stories on the grounds that they are major historical events. That's why he allowed the assassina
by skissane 2y ago
In the past, dang has occasionally allowed mainstream politics stories on the grounds that they are major historical events. That's why he allowed the assassination of the Japanese Prime Minister. I think the attempted assassination of Donald Trump is an event of a similar nature.
- oska 2y agoI'm obviously not speaking for dang (or for anyone who flagged the thread) but a successful assassination is on a different level to an attempted assassination. I think younger people are mostly all aware of the assassination of JFK in 1963 but probably lots are not aware that there was an attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan in 1981 (which also came close to succeeding; closer even than this recent event). That's because the attempted assassination of Reagan had far less contemporary and historical impact than the successful assassination of JFK. If the attempt on Trump's life had been successful a thread probably would stay up (my guess only). That's because there would have been HN on-topic things for us all to consider after such an event, including possible further crackdowns on internet privacy, further restrictions on free movement, free speech, etc.
- skissane 2y agodang has spoken: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40963142 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40963142 He would have unflagged it manually, because in his view it is significant enough a political story to be discussed here. The reason he didn't was he was away and so didn't know about the story or its flagging. He has manually unflagged it now