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Re:Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016) by concordDance on Friday January 15, 2021 @04:50AM (#25788900)
> Maybe it pops up here because people have at least a modicum of hope that there will be a productive conversation even amongst the various downvote brigades?

There are a few other places you can do this, like the slate star codex culture war comment spinoffs: r/theMotte and https://www.datasecretslox.com/index.php

Due to rightwingers often feeling unwelcome elsewhere a lot go to those places, meaning both communities think they need more leftists to balance things out.

Re:Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016) by grumple on Friday January 15, 2021 @07:02AM (#25789883)
Are there better such forums for such discussion?

Frankly, their election fraud thread - which has hundreds of comments demonstrating both extreme misunderstanding of statistics and the voting process, coupled with a willingness to make or support incredible claims without any substantive evidence or knowledge of the subject matter - says a lot about that community, in my view.

Re:Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016) by concordDance on Friday January 15, 2021 @08:12PM (#25798888)
I'm not aware of better ones, though I wish I was. There are very few places online where Republicans and Democrats actually talk politics.