[Oxitendwe]

>And it's political, which goes against the HN guidelines.

People violate this "guideline" so much that I literally did not even know it was a rule (and yes, I checked beforehand) until I was shadowbanned for it without warning. Apparently the rule is that you can talk about politics if you don't talk about too much, or exclusively, although I strongly suspect it had more to do with having the wrong views than posting about them too frequently (data on this would be welcome).

[krapp]

I believe politics is off topic if it's a mainstream news story - "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic," as the guidelines say, although that's a bit vague. I think the guidelines allow for political articles with intellectual merit and which demonstrate an "interesting new phenomenon" worth discussing to potentially be on topic.