[crusso]

There's a lot of truth in that, but it's not strictly true.

And yet, rayiner's comment appeared faded-out from down-voting when I came upon it.

And that's the real problem. He had truth and thoughtfulness in his comment (yeah, you can quibble about federal attempts to override local policy), yet even a smart group of people like regular HN users tribalistically downvoted it. Rayiner sinned by making a coherent argument against throwing Republicans under the bus for metro-area problems.

We are a tribalistic society and it's only getting worse. Trump said he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and his supporters would defend him. He was probably right. When evidence of Biden's family corruption surfaced before the election, the media and tech giants actively suppressed and subverted the information.

Ending no-knock warrants or shuffling around police roles just eats away at the edges of the problem. If as a society, we can't find ways to get at truth and logic that cuts through the dynamics that push tribalism, we're doomed to a never-ending race toward the drain.

[PhantomGremlin]

I stole this from somewhere, don't remember where. It's a pithy observation about HN:

HN is open minded about intellectual inquiry as long as that inquiry doesn't challenge anything an average Californian already believes