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by Alive-in-2025 183 days ago
When a certain type of political commenting keeps getting repeatedly flagged, in this case things about oligarchs or conservatives who might have made mistakes and did bad things, it's pretty clear that it's probably conservatives who are complaining about it.
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or, more likely - people are flagging because they don't even want politics on here to begin with
>or, more likely

Yes, argue against unsubstantiated bias with more unsubstantiated bias. Anyone who knows about the high percentage of educated immigrants in the tech sector and who knows the historical importance of immigrants to American innovation could easily find this highly relevant, especially the historical high ratio of successful immigrant founders in SV itself including a couple of white South Africans that come to mind -- at least one of which who seems to have had a less than by-the-book immigrant status and could have been deported in today's climate if someone wished it to be so.

The UK leaving the EU is one of the highest ranked stories on this site for similar reasons no doubt.

this is based on comments on the actual flagged articles - some people say why they flag you know.
But plenty of other politics regularly reaches the front page without flagging and has done so for years and years and years.