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A comment on Ask HN: We need a way to discuss political articles here.

Re:Ask HN: We need a way to discuss political articles here by thenomad on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @05:27AM (#13529317)
I sort of agree - but on the other hand, the level of politics around right now is overwhelming, and it's nice, going on necessary, to have somewhere that isn't all Trump, all the time. So I wouldn't be particularly happy with just lifting the old-school HN politics discouragement.

A separated HN-for-politics area would seem like a good idea at this point, though. "Show | Ask | Politics | Jobs"?

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Re:Ask HN: We need a way to discuss political articles here by thenomad on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @11:47AM (#13532290)
Second thought on this: outrage fatigue, empathy fatigue, and activism fatigue are all real things.

Having places that aren't politicised may be very important in keeping up resistance to horrible politics and policies beyond a month or so.

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