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307 points MBCook | 1 comments | 15 Nov 24 20:15 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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{3}[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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notyourwork ◴[16 Nov 24 00:30 UTC] No.42152976{4}[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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1. ab5tract ◴[16 Nov 24 00:52 UTC] No.42153132{5}[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?