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I'm not a moderator here so I don't get to remove stuff despite the obvious and immediate improvements to the site that would entail. But generally, they don't remove stuff either.

As to political, the issue is not just something being political - 'something something liberal media' is both ideological and also completely generic. If I started railing about how the Koch brothers are out to destroy unions and build an underwater objectivist zombie paradise in threads about any odd thing, those comments would quite sensibly be downvoted, flagged and the dementors would show up to suck the joy of life out of me.

Here's what that looks like, from dang, an actual de... I mean. Moderator.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:dang%20generic&sort=byD...

The downvoting - If you see downvoting (i.e. disagreement) with your views and opinions as some sort of abuse and tyranny, you'll probably have a hard time here and really, on most forums worth reading. I'll leave you with the following famous meditation by a stalwart proponent of laissez-faire capitalism:

"You wanna work here - close! You think this is abuse? You think this is abuse, you cocksucker? You can't take this, how can you take the abuse you get on a sit? You don't like it, leave."