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Flagged due to sour grapes.

Symbiote 6mo ago
My guess is it's flagged by Americans (it's their daytime) who don't realize the significance of this result to the EU and potentially the EU's response to the war in Ukraine.
- salawat 6mo ago
  You know, I took a second look at it, and weirdly enough, I can't vouch it for some reason. That's odd. Grats to the good folks across the pond though! May we be so lucky when next our transition is scheduled!
  - DamnInteresting 6mo ago
    > You know, I took a second look at it, and weirdly enough, I can't vouch it for some reason. The 'vouch' option doesn't appear until/unless the post becomes [dead].
- burnt-resistor 6mo ago
  Probably flagged by MAGA and pro-Kremlin aligned accounts who dislike the results and uppercase Liberal limousine establishment Democrats who try to censor every view they don't already agree with. If these were normal times, the I'd say keep sex, religion, and politics private except not the latter when liberal democratic politicians, speech-debate, and journalism are/were under fire in many sectors and countries. I'm hoping with this result that Hungary will experience much greater press and personal freedom.. and the corruption will hopefully be exposed more widely similar to Caolan Robertson only hinting at some of the extravagant emoluments and embezzlement. https://youtu.be/HiayCdysN04 https://youtu.be/HiayCdysN04
- surgical_fire 6mo ago
  Eh, I guess that people that flagged it know quite well what this result mean to the EU, they just hate it because they want to see the EU fail.
- jredwards 6mo ago
  American here. I was at a party when I saw the news and gleefully announced it to the table I was sitting at. We were all pleased with both the result and the concession. ...we know.
jjtwixman 6mo ago
[flagged]
- pessimizer 6mo ago
  [flagged]
  - g-b-r 6mo ago
    It's an odd fascism that hadn't yet managed to take over the elections too.
  - mrtksn 6mo ago
    This is just a straw man fallacy I keep seeing pushed around, especially on pro-Russia subs in reddit. Elections are about how you choose who takes the role, it's not about what the role is - which can be a fascist dictator with popular support. It is a popular genre in the last 10-15 years, the fascists and dictators with popular support use their control of media, police, judiciary etc to align all the odds in their favor and go ahead and hold real elections and as long as the margin is large enough they don't cheat on the elections. Even when they loose an election they tend to have loyalists embedded deep in the institutions and take power back through sabotage and legal battles. For example, they set the governing process in such a way that it's practically impossible to effectively govern by following the rules, when they loose an election the new people are having very hard time, services start to suffer. They need to do reforms and change the laws and if they don't have supermajority they are being blocked and end up either screw up governing or follow the practical paths of governing like the previous government used to do. This results in either losing elections next time as the public sees this as incompetence or being sent into jail as judiciary selectively targets you for corruption when you take shortcuts to get things done. So it is a fascist dictatorship even if there are elections and official power transfer because the institution than wield power follow orders to smash opponents of their leader during their reign or even after they are officially not in power.
FeloniousHam 6mo ago
Probably flagged because of lack of tech relevance. (I listen Ukraine: The Latest daily, I'm reasonably up-to-date big issue European politics).
- deno 6mo ago
  Exactly: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- consumer451 6mo ago
  This is a hugely important geopolitical event, and mods here often override flagging in such cases. Here is an example of HN moderation going the other way, when it favored a right-leaning narrative: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34712496 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34712496 It is getting more and more difficult for me to see moderation here as unbiased. The charitable take is that people are often not aware of their biases. I am sure I suffer from that to some extent, though I really try to go out of my way to be self-aware about this. And yes, of course this comment could be evidence of my own bias.

My guess is it's flagged by Americans (it's their daytime) who don't realize the significance of this result to the EU and potentially the EU's response to the war in Ukraine.

salawat 6mo ago
You know, I took a second look at it, and weirdly enough, I can't vouch it for some reason. That's odd. Grats to the good folks across the pond though! May we be so lucky when next our transition is scheduled!
- DamnInteresting 6mo ago
  > You know, I took a second look at it, and weirdly enough, I can't vouch it for some reason. The 'vouch' option doesn't appear until/unless the post becomes [dead].
burnt-resistor 6mo ago
Probably flagged by MAGA and pro-Kremlin aligned accounts who dislike the results and uppercase Liberal limousine establishment Democrats who try to censor every view they don't already agree with. If these were normal times, the I'd say keep sex, religion, and politics private except not the latter when liberal democratic politicians, speech-debate, and journalism are/were under fire in many sectors and countries. I'm hoping with this result that Hungary will experience much greater press and personal freedom.. and the corruption will hopefully be exposed more widely similar to Caolan Robertson only hinting at some of the extravagant emoluments and embezzlement. https://youtu.be/HiayCdysN04 https://youtu.be/HiayCdysN04
surgical_fire 6mo ago
Eh, I guess that people that flagged it know quite well what this result mean to the EU, they just hate it because they want to see the EU fail.
jredwards 6mo ago
American here. I was at a party when I saw the news and gleefully announced it to the table I was sitting at. We were all pleased with both the result and the concession. ...we know.

jjtwixman 6mo ago

[flagged]

pessimizer 6mo ago
[flagged]
- g-b-r 6mo ago
  It's an odd fascism that hadn't yet managed to take over the elections too.
- mrtksn 6mo ago
  This is just a straw man fallacy I keep seeing pushed around, especially on pro-Russia subs in reddit. Elections are about how you choose who takes the role, it's not about what the role is - which can be a fascist dictator with popular support. It is a popular genre in the last 10-15 years, the fascists and dictators with popular support use their control of media, police, judiciary etc to align all the odds in their favor and go ahead and hold real elections and as long as the margin is large enough they don't cheat on the elections. Even when they loose an election they tend to have loyalists embedded deep in the institutions and take power back through sabotage and legal battles. For example, they set the governing process in such a way that it's practically impossible to effectively govern by following the rules, when they loose an election the new people are having very hard time, services start to suffer. They need to do reforms and change the laws and if they don't have supermajority they are being blocked and end up either screw up governing or follow the practical paths of governing like the previous government used to do. This results in either losing elections next time as the public sees this as incompetence or being sent into jail as judiciary selectively targets you for corruption when you take shortcuts to get things done. So it is a fascist dictatorship even if there are elections and official power transfer because the institution than wield power follow orders to smash opponents of their leader during their reign or even after they are officially not in power.

FeloniousHam 6mo ago

Probably flagged because of lack of tech relevance. (I listen Ukraine: The Latest daily, I'm reasonably up-to-date big issue European politics).

deno 6mo ago
Exactly: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
consumer451 6mo ago
This is a hugely important geopolitical event, and mods here often override flagging in such cases. Here is an example of HN moderation going the other way, when it favored a right-leaning narrative: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34712496 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34712496 It is getting more and more difficult for me to see moderation here as unbiased. The charitable take is that people are often not aware of their biases. I am sure I suffer from that to some extent, though I really try to go out of my way to be self-aware about this. And yes, of course this comment could be evidence of my own bias.