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V-eHGsd_ ◴[22 Jun 17 03:20 UTC] No.14609914[source]▶

that person has been elected president.

dang ◴[22 Jun 17 06:23 UTC] No.14610438[source]▶

Would you please not take HN threads on generic political tangents? They lead to flamewars and trainwrecks, as seen below. We're hoping for better than that here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14609910 and marked it off-topic.

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1. V-eHGsd_ ◴[22 Jun 17 06:37 UTC] No.14610483[source]▶

>>14610438 #

pardon?

can you help me understand how my reply was off-topic given the question:

> As an analogy, take every major political scandal you can think of - Monica Lewinsky, Watergate, Iran Contra, Chappaquiddick, etc - and imagine a single elected official perpetrating them all within the course of a year. How do you think they would be treated?

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2. dang ◴[22 Jun 17 06:44 UTC] No.14610509[source]▶

>>14610483 (TP) #

It's a matter of degree. At least the parent comment was loosely tied to the original topic, where yours went off the moorings altogether.

It's often a judgment call where to clip these threads, sort of like the temperature at which to save a boiling frog.

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