[Uptrenda]

You know, I watched people fight over this post for hours. If you tracked positive and negative total upvotes it would look like a sine wave. I'm kind of surprised it was so contentious though because my experience of politics at startups is basically everyone either pretends to have the same opinion as the founders (if they're openly political) or politics is made outright taboo. I think politics is something that really does invite a lot of drama and being flawed creatures as we are, humans have trouble being objective.

Can you imagine if HN allowed politics. I think most of us here would hate it. RN, hacker news feels like this nice little oasis and even when major political events happened you could come here and it would always have gems. I just think we would be happier if that applied to open source, too. I've often wished to have a plugin that just filters all political stuff from my screen. I will probably develop it one day.