This is answered in many of the past explanations at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... and the links they include. If you read some of those and still have a question that isn't answered there, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.
The short answer is (1) most, but not all political stories are off topic here, (2) a certain amount of political overlap is inevitable, and (3) we try to moderate this question in a principled way, although consistency is impossible in practice. You'll find many descriptions of the principles we try to follow at the link I just mentioned.
Unfortunately there is a type of person who thinks there should be no places where politics is absent, and these people will endlessly spam non-tech politics articles like this one in the hopes of a few making it to the front page and surviving being flagged.
You'll notice that posts like these don't have actual, logical discussion underneath and in their stead have repetitive slogan comments.
The real question is: why is this on hacker news with 4 digits upvotes and why has Gaza been on Hacker News non-stop while there's been hardly any coverage of the islamist republic of Iran slaughtering tens of thousands of unarmed civilians in a matter of days.
And I already know that although there's been very little coverage so far of what's happened in Iran, where islamists have been executing people inside hospitals, there's going to be non-stop coverage of Iran if the US decides to strike Iran to topple the islamist regime / prevent them from getting the atomic bomb. Then we'll have detective work to find innocents killed and upvoting of stories about how the evil west is committing war crimes on innocent islamists.
But tens of thousands of unarmed civilians --who want sharia law to stop and who are protesting for a regime change-- being executed by an islamist regime?
Very little coverage on HN.
There's an ongoing inquiry led by several members or parliament in the UK about mass rapes that happened on UK soil, complete with a cover-up attempt by the government, involvement of police officers, as much, in some cities, as 30% of all men from one particular community involved, descriptions of killings (according to the testimony of some victims), of victims having their tongue nailed to the table and being ass-raped by several men, etc.
And no coverage on HN.
But the IDF firing for four minutes on the Toyota Hilux'es from Gaza aid workers: more than 1000 upvotes.
> The real question is: why is this on hacker news with 4 digits upvotes and why has Gaza been on Hacker News non-stop while there's been hardly any coverage of the islamist republic of Iran slaughtering tens of thousands of unarmed civilians in a matter of days.
(And this one, at least, has the interesting little bit about echolocation from a cell phone video being used to verify events. I find that neat, technologically.)
For sure there will be coverage if the Epstein class decides to go to war with Iran on behalf of Israel who obviously holds the blackmail on this, surprisingly few mentions on mainstream media about the Mossad honeypot that the Epstein setup was btw.
North Korea has nukes now and the threats to them have surprisingly gone quiet, I wonder why? Trump is instead writing love letters to Kim Jong-un.. Apparently having nukes is quite a good insurance policy.
This is answered in many of the past explanations at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... and the links they include. If you read some of those and still have a question that isn't answered there, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.
The short answer is (1) most, but not all political stories are off topic here, (2) a certain amount of political overlap is inevitable, and (3) we try to moderate this question in a principled way, although consistency is impossible in practice. You'll find many descriptions of the principles we try to follow at the link I just mentioned.
Unfortunately there is a type of person who thinks there should be no places where politics is absent, and these people will endlessly spam non-tech politics articles like this one in the hopes of a few making it to the front page and surviving being flagged.
You'll notice that posts like these don't have actual, logical discussion underneath and in their stead have repetitive slogan comments.
The real question is: why is this on hacker news with 4 digits upvotes and why has Gaza been on Hacker News non-stop while there's been hardly any coverage of the islamist republic of Iran slaughtering tens of thousands of unarmed civilians in a matter of days.
And I already know that although there's been very little coverage so far of what's happened in Iran, where islamists have been executing people inside hospitals, there's going to be non-stop coverage of Iran if the US decides to strike Iran to topple the islamist regime / prevent them from getting the atomic bomb. Then we'll have detective work to find innocents killed and upvoting of stories about how the evil west is committing war crimes on innocent islamists.
But tens of thousands of unarmed civilians --who want sharia law to stop and who are protesting for a regime change-- being executed by an islamist regime?
Very little coverage on HN.
There's an ongoing inquiry led by several members or parliament in the UK about mass rapes that happened on UK soil, complete with a cover-up attempt by the government, involvement of police officers, as much, in some cities, as 30% of all men from one particular community involved, descriptions of killings (according to the testimony of some victims), of victims having their tongue nailed to the table and being ass-raped by several men, etc.
And no coverage on HN.
But the IDF firing for four minutes on the Toyota Hilux'es from Gaza aid workers: more than 1000 upvotes.
The double standards here are just insane.
> The real question is: why is this on hacker news with 4 digits upvotes and why has Gaza been on Hacker News non-stop while there's been hardly any coverage of the islamist republic of Iran slaughtering tens of thousands of unarmed civilians in a matter of days.
900 points, 800 comments: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...
(And this one, at least, has the interesting little bit about echolocation from a cell phone video being used to verify events. I find that neat, technologically.)
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For sure there will be coverage if the Epstein class decides to go to war with Iran on behalf of Israel who obviously holds the blackmail on this, surprisingly few mentions on mainstream media about the Mossad honeypot that the Epstein setup was btw.
North Korea has nukes now and the threats to them have surprisingly gone quiet, I wonder why? Trump is instead writing love letters to Kim Jong-un.. Apparently having nukes is quite a good insurance policy.