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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by cycrutchfield on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:50PM (#25695796)
>It appears to me that there is a huge electorate that is disgruntled and has felt that the people in power have ignored it for too long

They literally had 4 years of their president sitting in the oval office, during 2 of which they controlled the legislature as well. If they felt ignored by the people in power, then it was THEIR people that THEY elected that were ignoring them. And, apparently they were not dissatisfied with them because they by and large voted for them AGAIN in 2020.

>then they must genuinely feel that the normal method of registering protest, i.e., voting, has ceased to function for them

No, let's just call them what they are: sore losers.

Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by dang on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:28PM (#25696300)
You've been using the site primarily for political battle and breaking the site guidelines repeatedly. We ban accounts that do those things, and have asked you several times in the past to stop, so I've banned this account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email [email protected] and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.

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