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LarsDu88 ◴[] No.45294473[source]
How many minutes before HN takes this one down? Seen at least 5 political posts get shut down today
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AlexandrB ◴[] No.45294496[source]
HN has a general rule against posts about politics that occasionally gets ignored for particularly noteworthy events.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

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belter ◴[] No.45294532[source]
If you are quoting the guidelines quote this one also: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

I would say, to see the USA moving into Nazism, in realtime, in my lifetime, is a pretty amazing intellectual endeavor to dissect.

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AlexandrB ◴[] No.45294646[source]
Can you explain why you think it's moving specifically to Nazism? There's certainly an argument to be made for authoritarianism or some other version of non-democratic rule, however throwing around Nazism weakens that argument instead of strengthening it given how overused that term/accusation is at this point.
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1. rolph ◴[] No.45294855[source]
this is what makes me think some pseudo-neo manifest is happening

The Fourth Reich

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Reich

https://bradwillis.substack.com/p/the-fourth-reich