[hooo]

Also, why does it get upvotes so quickly?

[next_xibalba]

My pet conspiracy theory is there is a fair amount of coordinated manipulation to get political posts on the HN front page. Fortunately, they are often quickly flagged to the abyss.

[GOD_Over_Djinn]

That’s not a conspiracy theory. Anyone who doesn’t realize at this point that online discourse is heavily engineered and manipulated is an unthinking rube.

[next_xibalba]

I think many like to think HN is excepted.

[flag_fagger]

> Anyone who doesn’t realize at this point that online discourse is heavily engineered and manipulated is an unthinking rube.

We call that “the voting populace”