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Re:Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016) by kortilla on Thursday January 14, 2021 @10:24PM (#25786619)
> Maybe politics keep popping up because it's a conversation that needs to happen?

What people want to do and what should be done are entirely different things.

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Re:Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016) by rocqua on Friday January 15, 2021 @12:00AM (#25787187)
Big part of the difference is that one of them can be known.
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Re:Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016) by wizzwizz4 on Friday January 15, 2021 @09:48AM (#25791548)
What should be done is actually pretty obvious to historians, most of the time. (Future historians, that is.)
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