U.S. citizens no longer have access to most of the world

Re:U.S. citizens no longer have access to most of the world by ApolloFortyNine on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @01:03PM (#23977993)

It's a shame hacker news has gotten this political as of late. They're likely going to have to go with the lock comments strategy much of reddit has to do, or just allow each thread to blow up into wild America hate like this.

6 less countries than the number one country, and you get these comments about how "the US hasn't been a sought after passport for years" when the US was number one just 6 years ago, and even now it's a better passport than 170 countries, with the ones you can't get into basically rubber stamps if you do apply.

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Re:U.S. citizens no longer have access to most of the world by SpicyLemonZest on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @01:19PM (#23978223)

And the full extent of it isn't obvious, because I've seen a lot of intensely political submissions get hundreds of upvotes flung at them before they're flagged within the hour. A lot of normally reasonable people have simply decided that they're cool with flamebait and chucking insults. And I'm not sure whether moderators can maintain a good intellectual environment when the userbase is willing to tolerate a bad one.

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