There you go...

It was already flagged when I posted that comment.

I'm foreign so I don't care much about american politics. I hope HN doesn't become reddit. So I flagged.

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

Hacker News Guidelines

  What to Submit
  On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
  
  Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

From the article:

> If the U.S. Constitution is the core operating system of the U.S. government, the Archivist of the United States and NARA are the maintainers of the system’s foundational codebase of legal and historical documents.

I would argue the article is very much hacker related. Even as a foreigner, the US deleting government records should worry you, as it affects more than just their egg prices.

> Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

The potential collapse of American democracy is not interesting?

> The potential collapse of American democracy is not interesting?

Oh, please don’t exaggerate here. Just because the person you didn’t want to win the election did win doesn’t mean the world is coming to an end.

This is a very condescending way of admiting you did not read the article.

Also this reaction alone shows that this topic is indeed relevant.

It’s condescending of you to assume didn’t read the article. I think you’re acting emotionally right now instead of rationally.

I think you might be having trouble expressing yourself.

Given the upvotes this topic got, it clearly sparks some intellectual curiosity.

But you can see other comments in this thread about how pro-Trump posts, while being rare, are not flagged.

This about the preservation of government records, definitely not "off-topic".

If you're not interested, just move on to the next article. I skip over 90% of HN articles.

Also, like it or not, American politics have a wide impact worldwide, more so than any other country (by far).

I agree, just posted to the same effect before I scrolled down and saw your post ;-)

They aren't