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Re:Nintendo's use of surveillance and private investigators ... by barbecue_sauce on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @09:57AM (#25582185)
We don't do politics here?
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Re:Nintendo's use of surveillance and private investigators ... by dang on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @02:54PM (#25585318)
It depends on the story and thread. Generic "capitalism vs. communism" stuff is out because it's repetitive and tedious (and usually nasty) [1]. Same with political/ideological battle in general. Political flamewar is out because any flamewar is out [2]. Sensational/news-of-the-day/horse-race political stories are out because they're not intellectually interesting [2].

But curious, thoughtful conversation on topics with political overlap is ok on HN [3], and always has been [4].

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869

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Re:Nintendo's use of surveillance and private investigators ... by NikolaNovak on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @11:52AM (#25583268)
No clue why the sibling comment was not just down voted but flagged. But to kind of respond to it, my 0.0006 cents :)

ed25519FUUU:

"Generally curious, do we just basically ignore what happened in the Soviet Union, Cambodia, Vietnam, and China when we discuss the “community motivations” of communism and how that plays out?"

- there's the political and economic philosophy, and then there are real world implementations, done with various degrees of honesty and varied goals

- some will claim Russia etc are state capitalism or some other format rather than "pure communism"

- some will point out that purest examples of practical communism, the Israeli Kibutz, were wildly successful

(none of this is to indicate I have remotest interest in living in communism - in fact we ran across countries and continents to not be in one... But the theory is still interesting and in some ways relevant)

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Re:Nintendo's use of surveillance and private investigators ... by mondoshawan on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @10:19AM (#25582367)
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In general, yes. Politics aren't really on the discussion list here.

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Re:Nintendo's use of surveillance and private investigators ... by ashtonkem on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @11:51AM (#25583261)
We don't do partisanship here, but we do do policy. And policy maps back to politics with trivial ease, although not always consistently.
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