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What's happening? I've been reading HN for 15 years, and I'm seeing more and more political BS disguised as something worth sharing HN... wtf?
by LanceJones 2y ago
What's happening? I've been reading HN for 15 years, and I'm seeing more and more political BS disguised as something worth sharing HN... wtf?
- llamaimperative 2y ago> What's happening? An overhaul of perhaps the single most important institution on the planet, the US federal government?
- Reasoning 2y agoAn overhaul? It's literally just telling people to take pronouns out of their email signature.
- happytoexplain 2y agoThe GP is asking about the trend, not this article.
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- fzeroracer 2y agoTech companies decided to throw out any pretense of being neutral and go all in with the current administration. In turn, the current administration is trampling on peoples rights and causing downstream effects.
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- 1970-01-01 2y agoEven HN gets caught in political shitstorms, but you can quickly help filter them out by clicking the flag link and moving on to something else. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#:~:text=Off%2DTopic%3A%20Most%20stories%20about%20politics https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#:~:text=Off...
- happytoexplain 2y agoThis is not by itself a defense, but you're speaking relatively ("more and more"), so the obvious thing to point out is that things have gotten more and more extreme within the political right in the US over that time frame, and more quickly as time goes on. More extreme means more likely to break the "worth posting even though it has political content" barrier, wherever that bar is for each submitter.