[enraged_camel]

Stuff like this is why we need to have more political discussions on HN. If we don't talk about these issues openly and try to come up with solutions, we will look back and wonder how we managed to spend this era of USA's transition to fascism discussing utterly trivial stuff like the latest JavaScript frameworks.

To paraphrase the famous saying, evil succeeds when good men and women do nothing. I have seen this happen in my own country. Don't want to see it happen in the USA as well.

[davidw]

> If we don't talk about these issues openly and try to come up with solutions,

You can check out my twitter feed if you think I don't care about politics, but there are a ton of places where we can 'talk about these issues openly'. Just maybe spare this one site from all the politics? It tends to, uh, eclipse, everything else, as it is far more important.

[jbergstroem]

The same reason the Go 1.9 changelog won't be discussed in political forums, opinions on USA's political landscape surely has a better home on the Internet than here.

[jdavis703]

Most sites are either echo chambers or fighting cages. The civility of Hacker News makes it a great place for not having shouting matches. Perhaps you know of other political sites with a HN-like community?

[yodsanklai]

> The civility of Hacker News makes it a great place for not having shouting matches

Maybe, but maybe we'll lose this civility if we encourage this type of discussions.

[eeZah7Ux]

Most of HN readers are heavily impacted by US politics in our technical interests and sometimes our daily jobs - even if we don't realize it.

[enraged_camel]

Golang 1.9 changelog wont be discussed in many places because it's a niche topic. Politics affects everyone, and therefore should be discussed everywhere.

Again these same types of arguments I've seen happen back home. People used to say stuff like "oh my god do we have to discuss politics here too??!" End result: the country slid down to authoritarianism and now everyone is fucked, even those who insisted on staying in their own little niche bubbles.

[to_bpr]

This thread is actually a prime example of why we can't have politics on HN.

Even in an otherwise smart, rational and measured community, in this thread we're seeing appeals to emotion, partisan "outrage" and downvoted being used as a tool of disagreement.