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Sorry but I really think you're off base here. It's true that politically minded users (or partisans of any strong cause) tend to flag stories from the side they don't like. But it's also true that many HN users flag stories that they think don't belong on HN, given the site guidelines. You can tell the two categories apart by their flagging histories. I looked at a bunch of the flags on the OP—not all, because there was a massive number of them—and saw plenty of examples of the latter, including some from users who have been high-quality HN contributors for many years and never shown signs of politically motivated flagging.