[metadope]

Anything critical of the administration is going to be, by definition, political.

There is a large contingent within HN who never want any political discussion.

This appears to be an ongoing dynamic tension. The flagging might not be from the right. Just same old same old HN foosball.

[mingus88]

Bollocks. Politics is endemic to tech. It’s impossible to discuss tech without politics.

What some folk want to squash is very particular politics which they don’t want to confront. It violates everything it means to be a hacker in the true sense of the word but I have realized a long time ago that these types of people wear the badge of hacker for their ego only

[iamnothere]

For me personally, I only want to see politics that are directly tech-adjacent here. I have many other channels for political news that have a much better signal-to-noise ratio. Diluting the tech focus here with average mainstream politics attracts the wrong crowd and adds little of value.

[red-iron-pine]

> There is a large contingent within HN who never want any political discussion.

There is a large contingent within HN who are bots, and/or are 100% in-line with Thiel and Yarvin