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by alistproducer2 3431 days ago
it's because general political topics aren't considered a good fit by a lot of people and lots will reflexively flag them.

As an example of how despised political discussion are, a chrome extension I made to filter stories (mostly political) made it to the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13467611