When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you know America's changed

Yeah this is the last straw for me. This thread breaks pretty much every rule HN has, the comment thread is filled with absolutely vile, delusional, partisan hate and propaganda, it's been on the front page for hours and no moderator has decided to remove it, not enough users have flagged it to get rid of it, I'm officially giving up on HN at this point.

Not going to waste my time any longer flagging and downvoting political content and trying to keep HN good. The propagandists and hate have won and have majority control over it now. Every day a third of the front page is political/social/mainstream news content which isn't supposed to be here. Adios. Time to find the next place.

Bye.

As a new HN user, I find it is saturated with political interests, and it is distracting... Well ignore it then... Yes, that's why I avoid Reddit etc. I try to ignore not just political discussions, but the atmosphere that inevitably seem to form in such a space.

Doesn't matter what side,... An echo chamber is bad regardless. If I want one, I would go elsewhere. Perhaps there's an idea in this community that "we are better than the rest, and can carry out political discussions, because, after all, we are right in our opinions, and we only do it when 'necessary'".

Aren't there a solution, like create HN/pol... Or create a separate TLD for it.

If you are going to have political content, can't there be a way to filter it out?

I limit myself to analyze the political stuff for the sport of pointing out bad rethorics and such, not because I care about either side or any side, but for the sake of analysis.

During trump's first term there was pressure for an experiment that was conducted on blocking political content. Sadly it was deemed to be okay to allow it to return. I think that was a wrong decision