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Consider that there is a large contingent of hackers on this forum who actually care about this stuff (the future of democracy), and are desperately upvoting it for visibility despite it continuously being flagged off by people who'd rather be talking about the latest in B2B AI or something..

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tokyobreakfast

1 hour ago

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Then they should go to Reddit to argue about it. It's not what this site is for. Spare us the "muh democracy" lecture.

> by people who'd rather be talking about the latest in B2B AI or something

Because that's what this site is for.

It's for the same reason you don't take a bullhorn into a grocery store or biker bar to talk about "the future of democracy".

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akersten

59 minutes ago

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Like it or not, this whole VC funded ivory tower where you can insulate yourself from the reality of what's happening outside depends on the civil stability of this country. You can choose to ignore it at your own peril.

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tokyobreakfast

52 minutes ago

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Then go build your own HN where you can have political flamewars 24/7.

If the issue is as dire as you claim, you should have no problem with users flocking there.

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DivingForGold

45 minutes ago

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I stand with Tokyobreakfast, let them take this to reddit, where it belongs.

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timeon

1 minute ago

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Impressive. Few months old accounts are telling what can be posted.

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Marsymars

57 minutes ago

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> Because that's what this site is for, for the same reason you don't take a bullhorn into a grocery store to talk about "the future of democracy".

If there are armed thugs headed for a grocery store's neighbourhood, a bullhorn might be appropriate.

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andsoitis

53 minutes ago

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Talking about it here has ZERO effect on the ground in Minnesota.

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Capricorn2481

4 minutes ago

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Yeah demanding we artificially bury the discussion of people being killed in the street is definitely the pragmatic approach. How very rational of you. But let's hear about how Cloudflare is the actual devil for the 100th time.

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matsemann

1 hour ago

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I'm trawling /new specifically looking for a story on this. Probably others are as well.