[AnimalMuppet]

For the 94th time: It's not that we don't have a spine. It's not that we're pretending everything is fine. It's that we don't want to discuss it all day long on HN. We want HN to be something else than a political discussion site.

[AlecSchueler]

Where is a good place to actually discuss it, then, and can the rest of us join you there?

[Karrot_Kream]

Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, Tildes X, Reddit. Do you want more?

On Bluesky and X you're actually fairly likely to read the conversation or at least policy viewpoints of actual policy makers and think tanks. Rather than hackers speculating about a field they have little experience in.

[AlecSchueler]

Thanks. I haven't had much luck on Reddit and X is of course a no go. But could you recommend some of these policy makers on Bluesky?

[Tadpole9181]

Then don't discuss it? Literally don't click the thread, that's all it takes. Heck, you can even hide it! Why does everyone else have to pretend the world doesn't exist for your sensitivites? Why are a couple of users allowed to entirely dictate what is "authorized" to discuss?

[AnimalMuppet]

The site guidelines dictate what is appropriate to discuss. The site guidelines say that most politics is off-topic. Partly because political conversations turn into... into the kinds of discussions that the political threads here have been turning into.