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Prediction: this headline will be renamed "US invades Venezuela" very soon.
by underdeserver 9mo ago
Prediction: this headline will be renamed "US invades Venezuela" very soon.
- richardatlarge 9mo agoI think the strategy is more by creep. Desensitization. This will be just another inching forward Or maybe not :(
- immibis 9mo agoPrediction: it won't. HN is very touchy about things that make the president look bad, as well as about bold statements, as well as about politics (except when it's good for VC money, then it's apolitical).
- madaxe_again 9mo agoIt doesn’t make him look stupid, it makes him look like a criminal. Like Reagan. But they’ll find some guy, I don’t know, Bob South, who will take the fall.
- khazhoux 9mo agoNo, not actually. But the mods do remove political content, so this whole thread will be gone soon.
- tguvot 9mo ago[flagged]
- well_actulily 9mo agoAll content is political. Some gets removed.
- tomhow 9mo agoNothing gets “removed” unless a user specifically asks us to delete an earlier post. Some things get downweighted in accordance with the guidelines and community expectations but everything can still be found.
- verzali 9mo agoThey remove political content they don't like. Plenty remains up.
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- immibis 9mo agoSome of the other threads about this have been removed, and not for being duplicates.
- tomhow 9mo agoWhere does this come from? We don’t “remove” anything, and what we “like” doesn’t come into it; our job is to keep discussions healthy and curious and maintain the trust of the community. Stories that are primarily about political controversy will generally get downweighted by: - community flags - flamewar penalties - software penalties that are applied by default to publications and topics that are primarily focused on daily politics controversy. But even with these penalties the stories can easily be found on /active, and everything that’s ever posted can be found on /newest (with ‘showdead’ turned on). When a story contains “significant new information” we turn off these penalties to ensure it gets exposure on the front page, which we’ve done here and which we’ve done for every major breaking story over the many years that this approach has been in place.
- immibis 9mo agoYes, I agree, it's very traditional for businesses to use the behaviour of their software as an accountability sink, as if they didn't create that behaviour to begin with, don't have the ability to change it, and don't have the ability to override it.
- stevekemp 9mo agoIt's not an invasion, it is just a special military operation.
- ModernMech 9mo agoIf any other country ran what they called a “special military operation” like this in the US, we’d call it an invasion.
- JumpCrisscross 9mo ago> If any other country ran what they called a “special military operation” like this in the US, we’d call it an invasion It's a reference to "the official term used by the Russian government to describe the Russian invasion of Ukraine" [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_military_operation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_military_operation
- dragonwriter 9mo agoHeck, the US claims Venezuela has been and is conducting an invasion of the United States, based on...a whole lot less than that.
- teiferer 9mo agoDon't need to go that far. Refugees coming to the U.S. is called an invasion.
- aqme28 9mo agoWhich is just a euphemism for a certain kind of invasion
- ubiquitysc 9mo agoYes they’re referring to what Russia called invading Ukraine
- madaxe_again 9mo agoI think the term is “humanitarian aid”
- JumpCrisscross 9mo ago> Prediction: this headline will be renamed "US invades Venezuela" very soon I'll say I'm doubtful. I think we'll bomb from afar and hope to pot Maduro.
- pgsandstrom 9mo agoI try to stay humble when predicting the future. But there is just no way there will be a literal military invasion. Trump would never risk a bunch of american dying on the ground, it would be terrible optics.
- mktk1001 9mo agoIf you think he cares about Americans? Let alone optics. I've got a bridge to sell you.
- AnimalMuppet 9mo agoI think he cares about the optics of Americans dying at least between now and the midterms.
- Mikhail_Edoshin 9mo agoThere is a science fiction book "The inhabited island" ("Prisoners of power"?) by A. and B. Strugatsky. In one of episodes they try to describe the feeling of being in a very human-looking but also completely alien culture (a different planet with humanoid inhabitants). So they describe how a group of people works out a credentials/paperwork situation (they need to move a prisoner from one place to another) but literally, as these actions are seen by the prisoner who does not understand the meaning. "This one gave that one a yellow rectangle but that one refused to take it and said something in a raised voice." I always remember that episode as I see headlines like that.
- dgellow 9mo agoIt won’t, they will just quote whatever the Trump admin says