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307 points MBCook | 3 comments | 15 Nov 24 20:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.418s | source
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Koala_ice ◴[15 Nov 24 20:56 UTC] No.42150928[source]▶
I thoroughyl expect the Deparment of Government Efficiency to recommend U.S. Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) be shut down to save previous taxpayer dollars.
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notyourwork ◴[15 Nov 24 21:33 UTC] No.42151375[source]▶
Am I the only one that is not excited about the next four years being constant banter of this nature? I loathe it. Nothing personal against your comment but the new administration hasn't even gone into office and I cannot get away from this.
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MBCook ◴[15 Nov 24 21:55 UTC] No.42151615[source]▶
We’ve had them in office before, plus plenty of public statements over the last 10 years.

It’s not exactly baseless speculation. People have things to base their guesses on.

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buzzerbetrayed ◴[15 Nov 24 22:44 UTC] No.42152117[source]▶
Being right or wrong is often irrelevant to the question of “does it belong on HN?”
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sangnoir ◴[16 Nov 24 00:00 UTC] No.42152773[source]▶
Not only do other HN commenters largely agree that it belongs to HN, they decided that it deserves to be the top comment on this discussion, at the time I authored this comment
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1. notyourwork ◴[16 Nov 24 00:30 UTC] No.42152976[source]▶
Which is sad for someone who has been here for well over a decade. I never came here for political banter, I came for technical discussion. Facts, truths and subject matter experts. HN is slowly becoming less concentrated version of that.
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2. ab5tract ◴[16 Nov 24 00:52 UTC] No.42153132[source]▶
Pretending that “politics” exists as something separate or invasive is not only ignorant, it’s dangerous.

If this were a thread about IBM machines of the 1930s, would it be playing “politics” to note that those machines were sold to Nazis and supported by IBM through sub-contractors even while we were at war with them? Is it crossing a line to mention they were used to facilitate the Holocaust?

3. scoofy ◴[16 Nov 24 01:12 UTC] No.42153274[source]▶
"I don't want to discuss politics" when it's directly related to the topic at hand, is a complaint from the decadent class. It affects peoples lives, it's relevant, it's entirely plausible given the situation.

People are going to have to deal with the presence of politics in regular life for the unforeseen future, because the luxury of avoiding politics is generally the sign of having good governance.