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Re:Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016) by minimaxir on Thursday January 14, 2021 @10:07PM (#25786516)
It's worth noting that the original thread was posted Dec 5th 2016; a month after Trump was elected, but before he took office.

Politics nowadays is irreversibly different, and an attempt at a detox now would be even worse.

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Re:Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016) by TigeriusKirk on Friday January 15, 2021 @08:43AM (#25790832)
The lesson I take from it is that you can't shut the barn door while the horses are charging through it.

Before or after, you can.

In other words, at the height of political emotion the experiment was bound to fail. That's not necessarily the case at any other point in time.

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