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I'm usually happy to flag news, politics. I'm happy with HN being for anything intellectually interesting, and nothing else. America is being attacked from the

I'm usually happy to flag news, politics. I'm happy with HN being for anything intellectually interesting, and nothing else. America is being attacked from the top, Donald Trump gaining and abusing more and more personal power every day in an apparent attempt to become an autocrat, meanwhile he and the dictator of El Salvador sit in the White House and just about the ONLY power you will see these two disclaim is that they "don't have the power" to bring this guy back. The ONLY thing I can see that makes this not intellectually interesting is just how sad and maddening it is. That definitely detracts from the curiosity of it all. But it's hard to imagine historians will find it remotely uninteresting.

johnnyanmac 2y ago
>I'm happy with HN being for anything intellectually interesting, and nothing else. Hard to be intellectually curious when you're living in fear, and potentially in a future war torn country. I understand some reasoning for this mindset, but I'm glad you realize how dire this is an an attack on the very core systems that allow such curious discussion. We have multiple university professors strongly considering fleeing to Canada as a small sample. It's pretty clear how such moves will affect the long term abilities for a site like this to operate.
- furyofantares 2y ago
  To be clear I'm advocating that if someone is flagging this due to it not being intellectually interesting, that they reflect on whether that's actually true or if it's just that fear or anxiety are getting in the way. I certainly don't want all news on this topic to be here; there's plenty of places to get that. But we definitely could discuss it here in ways which aren't accessible many other places if we take on the rather difficult task of finding some curiosity about the what exactly is going on.

johnnyanmac 2y ago

>I'm happy with HN being for anything intellectually interesting, and nothing else. Hard to be intellectually curious when you're living in fear, and potentially in a future war torn country. I understand some reasoning for this mindset, but I'm glad you realize how dire this is an an attack on the very core systems that allow such curious discussion. We have multiple university professors strongly considering fleeing to Canada as a small sample. It's pretty clear how such moves will affect the long term abilities for a site like this to operate.

furyofantares 2y ago
To be clear I'm advocating that if someone is flagging this due to it not being intellectually interesting, that they reflect on whether that's actually true or if it's just that fear or anxiety are getting in the way. I certainly don't want all news on this topic to be here; there's plenty of places to get that. But we definitely could discuss it here in ways which aren't accessible many other places if we take on the rather difficult task of finding some curiosity about the what exactly is going on.