Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen
by justajew on Saturday January 03, 2026 @10:40AM
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You will soon see many comments "misteriously" disappear without leaving traces, especially the ones telling the truth about US, "democratic values", "rule of law" and their similars. The better the comment, the faster it "evaporates". As such comments do in Russia or China related discussions, whatever the exact mechanism is.
This forum is not for you to get information about the american "public opinion". It is rather used to shape it (as a myriad of other similar forums in the "free world").
Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen
by dang on Saturday January 03, 2026 @04:39PM
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There's no such thing as a comment "disappearing without leaving traces" on HN, except in rare cases when an author asks us explicitly to delete their post and we do. Other than that, the most that happens is that a comment gets killed (a.k.a. marked as [dead]), and anyone who wants to can see those comments in their, er, glory by turning on 'showdead' in their profile. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
We don't moderate this place to promote (or demote) any particular political agenda, let alone try to "shape" public opinion, something which sounds even more boring than soulless. As long as you're implying secret sinister processes taking place here, I think you should include some specific links so readers can make up their own minds.
A trick I've learnt to get disingenious views of these events is how neatly they line up with official media/government positions. In these events, if commenters parrot media/government talking points, it's most certainly a disingenious one. Kinda like yours.
> hear what Venezuelans, the millions of Venezuelan migrants, and the citizens of neighboring countries who've had to reckon with the legacy of Chavez think about this
And yet, all you do is spout state propaganda. Funny how you haven't mentioned the millions of venezuelans who voted for maduro.
> No valuable insight will be gleaned from chat boards and reddit in the immediate aftermath of these sorts of events.
In those threads there are genuine comments. And those that parrot the official state/government propaganda - "Fentanyl", "drugs", "migrants", "venezuelan perspective".