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The Appalling Stance of Rand Paul
- rthomas6 13y agoThis is off topic for Hacker News per the guidelines. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- drhayes9 13y agoStandard reply to those posting about going against the guidelines: "...Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups." It got voted up to the front page. Why do you feel it's off topic?
- rthomas6 13y agoBecause a NYT op-ed about how heartless Rand Paul is is not part of an interesting new phenomenon, or even interesting at all in a hacker sense. I feel like people upvoted it because they agree with it and feel strongly about the issue, but it's just partisan politics. Politicians say crazy things all the time and I enjoy being able to go to HN and NOT see politics plastered everywhere.
- d4vlx 13y agoFWIW I posted it for the social commentary on the perception of the poor in the US. IMO the personal attack on Paul was a minor aspect, more of an inspiration to give commentary than a personal attack. Social commentary frequently shows up here.