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Ask HN: Do you care about politics? To what degree?
Comments invited on to what degree the HN community cares about politics and most importantly follows politics on a regular basis in the main stream media.
- RougeFemme 13y agoCare a lot. . .follow a lot in various media. . .followed state election returns in US last night. . .
- jagawhowho 13y agoI care about politics. But i don't care for the media. I believe the media is about molding public opinion. Disingenuously spinning topics to advantage. Everywhere from north Korea to the good old USA.
- atom-morgan 13y agoI'd say I care a lot since governments play a very large role in our lives whether we want them to or not. They have the potential to control nearly every aspect of our lives from the people we marry to the amount of money taken from our paychecks. They also have a consistent track record of violence. I care about politics but I don’t care about “politics”. I’m referring to the politics that is shown on TV. I get most of my news through Tumblr and other various online sources and I read great dialogue about political philosophy. I see what’s really happening around the world. I see children killed by drone strikes with their legs blown off. I see ground level videos of bombs going off in streets. Meanwhile, the average person who is interested in “politics” is watching a segment on CNN or Fox News about the jeans Obama wears.
- tokenadult 13y agoI care about politics a lot. But I don't like discussion of politics here on HN, where the "discussion" too often turns into potshots. I use multiple sources of information, from more than one country, to gain information about current issues.