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    HN has truly been scraping the bottom of the barrel for news sources this week. Please, continue posting news articles unrelated to HN from single-issue, hyper-partisan news public…

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    Comment #24119042

    I second this! Sabah, Serawak and just about the entirety of MY is on my travel itinerary post-covid. I did not appreciate the country nearly enough when I lived there a few years …

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    > Instead, you have a situation where the police to abandon a precinct all at once and not long after, far-right groups start showing up at night to stoke violence. Do you have any…

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    Comment #23889754

    The referendum certainly gave a voice to a demographic of nationalists, amongst them some quite insidious people, that's absolutely true. However, it's simply incorrect to characte…

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    Comment #23889259

    > The UK voted to keep Europeans from coming over here and taking our jobs and our women with their sophisticated accents. This comment expresses an appalling amount of xenophobia …

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    Thanks for posting this, I had not previously read the declarations.

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    Comment #23681310

    Of course it's not about picking political sides. I certainly did not intend to do so, if that's the impression you have taken. The sentiment is universally contemptible.

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    Sure, here are some DDG results. You'll find the phrase used in various contexts. - https://www.facebook.com/theonlygoodtoryisadeadtory/ - https://old.reddit.com/r/northernireland/…

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    > You certainly won't hear it from any left-leaning MPs or in Labour constituency meetings. And if that weren't true, recordings would be all over the media. I didn't/wouldn' claim…

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    > It is a common sentiment there that the only good Democrat is a dead one. A similar sentiment is commonly expressed by far left individuals and groups on Twitter, Facebook and ot…

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    > Don't use slang, especially if it could be considered cultural appropriation, such as spirit animal Yes, please do omit slang terms and inappropriate phrasing from official docum…

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    Comment #23398990

    > White people in ths United States riot to get haircuts. This is both misleading and racist, for a start.

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    Comment #22364451

    > The UK now fines firms for "damaging online content" Does Germany not do the same through NetzDG?

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    > But hey, if they were stupid enough to leave the EU then they're capable of doing anything. Why do you believe they are stupid to leave the EU?

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    Hi all. Sharing with you a rudimentary webapp I had been running locally until now. It's an aggregation of several podcast feeds I follow which are related to software engineering …

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