Comment by insane_dreamer

dang, first thank you for the moderation explanations

Besides those who flag political posts they don't agree with (which is a problem), I see a conflict in the comments between

those who think HN should be "politic-frei" because this is a "tech site" and "if I wanted to read about politics I'd go to reddit",

and those who agree this is a "tech/science/expand-curiosity-about-the-world site", and that's what makes HN a great community, but that it's sometimes, and especially recently, not possible to disentangle politics and tech. Musk/DOGE is a great example. No one asked Musk to drag politics into tech, and I wish I never had to read any articles about it and we could just talk about EVs and SpaceX, but he did, and so it's important to be able to talk about the impact which that has on tech, and on society, because this directly impacts us who are involved in tech/science. Tech/science does not exist in a vacuum.