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Re:Philadelphia write-in candidate: I won with one vote by Swizec on Saturday December 02, 2017 @05:44PM (#15834640)
My pet theory is that a lot of the apathy comes down to modern outrage clickbait media. There's a new OMG HORRIBLE NEWS EVERYTHING IS FALLING DOWN AND LIFE AS WE KNOW IT IS OVER FOREVER emergency seemingly every day. They milk it for a day or two, sometimes a week, then they find something new.

When everything is important and urgent, nothing is.

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Re:Philadelphia write-in candidate: I won with one vote by dang on Sunday December 03, 2017 @02:17AM (#15836443)
Could you please not use all caps for emphasis? It's basically yelling, and the site guidelines specifically ask you not to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Philadelphia write-in candidate: I won with one vote by Swizec on Sunday December 03, 2017 @02:49AM (#15836515)
But I was demonstrating that the media is yelling at us. Making it look like yelling was intentional.

I didn’t know HN had guidelines specifically disallowing all forms of yelling.

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