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Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by deadnomore on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:24PM (#50429422)
I think there was a lot of pressure building in our community because the ballot box has been no outlet for many years. We've had an increasingly burdensome and insane political environment worldwide and people dealing with unmitigated suffering. It leaks into HN and Reddit in different ways. People here are very plugged into policy and national circumstance and so they can't help but color their opinions.
Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by karmakurtisaani on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:52PM (#50429844)
Also, if the current administration and the tech oligarchs decided next to start burning poor people to power data centers, it would be a bit unreasonable to just expect the discussion to revolve around how cool the automation technology in the poor people furnace is.

I.e., sometimes you just can't separate politics from everything else.

Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by ryandrake on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:27PM (#50430459)
Exactly. I can just imagine the HN commenters with flagging/modding ability back in 1939 Germany flagging all the unpleasant discussions and urging commenters to focus on recent automotive innovation and the exciting advances in television technology, and not bring "politics" into everything.
Re:Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering anot... by qwerpy on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:49PM (#50430891)
Honestly I'd have been ok with that back then, and I'd be more than ok with it now. There are so many places to have political discussions. Pretty much everywhere else. The problem is that people can't discuss politics without getting negative, judgmental, and emotional about it. Can we not have one place to discuss tech without all that?