Comment by dang
1 year ago
There's a bit of background at https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5152723-donald-t....
If there are better third-party reports, let me know and I'll add to this list. The above is just the first one bestowed by Google.
Honestly dang, I'm seeing mostly not thoughtful substantive commentary here, just ideological battling.
Which is a shame because this is certainly a topic it's possible to do that on (e.g. this comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43105417 ).
Are the good comments really worth the large amount of heat?
I'm seeing a lot of helpful discussion, and I'm learning a lot. It's been easy for me to skip over the hyperbole.
When I made that post this was in the main branch (e.g. starting at top comment and going down you hit this before any leaf): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43103830
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In this case I think the answer is probably yes, it's worth it. This thread turned out to be better than the median for political threads these days, which of course is a low bar. (I agree with you that https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....
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Here's a recent answer about this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978389
Between those two coconut halves I hope there's a fairly complete coconut, but if you (or anyone) still have a question, let me know!
American Politics = world politics unfortunately.
"run of the mill"
Experts across the political spectrum say what is happening at the moment is unprecedented in US history.
It’s not your imagination, political articles that are normally flagged are being unflagged manually by dang. He discussed this recently.
Thanks! I wasn't trying to be cute, was genuinely curious.