[Impassionata]

Once you only care about silencing those who would point out fascism, it becomes easy enough. Watchful moderation willing to act is necessary.

I'm unsurprised that HN is being exploited this way, but I am pleasantly surprised that there are people seeing them in operation like yourself and the others speaking up.

The truth gets buried, ultimately, not by these bad-faith arguments, but by the giant thread above consisting of those who prefer to live in the world of the 90s where Republicans and Democrats worked to further their specific interests collectively in an organized fashion, and listening to both sides made sense.

I don't know if the memo is going to get out: those Republicans are gone. Those days are gone. Once the party has turned fascist I don't think there's going back, it's not like they can turn away from their deceived or delusional voters.

HN isn't a politics forum, its only function is to provide value for YCombinator. It can't address these foundational failures in human thinking.

But it's informative to see it struggle and fail.

[dang]

Please keep political flamewars off HN. This whole subthread is wretched and the sort of thing we're trying to avoid here. You guys have the rest of the internet if that's what you want.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: it turns out that your account has been using HN primarily for political battle. That's not allowed, and I've banned the account. We do that regardless of what politics you're battling for, because it destroys this place for its intended purpose. Please don't create accounts to do that with.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email [e-mail] and give us reason to believe that you'll use HN as intended in the future.