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by intended 493 days ago
This is one of the unspoken assumptions of online communities, that will cease to be true, and lead to the implosion or imposition of rules on HN, which will lead to its fracturing.

There is no running away from certain conversations, especially when your information ecosystem is intentionally made partisan. The flavor of american political discourse is architechtured to achieve very clear rhetorical and emotional goals.

At best, HN can choose how it wants to handle the schism. For that everyone needs to realize it is coming.

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HN has tackled this just fine for a very long time. I think it will be ok.
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