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Re:Show HN: Python package to collect normalized news from a... by fenwick67 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @10:32AM (#23258798)
"Of course there are reasons why a gubernatorial election should not be decided by a ski race, but are there also reasons why it should? For the sake of fairness, we’ve brought in two experts with opposite opinions, who will now have equal time to just say those opinions, because that’s what news is."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUx09Z_SJMI&t=11

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Re:Show HN: Python package to collect normalized news from a... by Spivak on Thursday May 21, 2020 @02:55PM (#23263222)
I mean honestly I think the person advocating for the ski-race should probably get more time since that's the stance I am, and the audience presumably, are least familiar with.

There are some good faith and sound mind tests that should be applied here but if someone wants to genuinely make a case for choosing a political leader via athletic competition (which has no basis in history at all, nope) then why not hear them out? What are you afraid of?

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