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Re: Ask HN: Is There a Hacker News for Politics?

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Post by tdhz77 »

chatmasta wrote: post #6
tdhz77 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reading reddit politics makes me more knowledable than those that watch Fox News, nbc news, msnbc. I’m more well rounded and know arguments made on both sides.

You sure you’re getting arguments from both sides? In /r/politics at least, unless you’re sorting comments by “controversial,” you are definitely not getting both sides. What I liked to do before the election was bounce between T_D and HRC subreddits. Finding any unbiased source of news is a hopeless quest. The next best solution is to read bias on both sides and use it to triangulate the truth so you can develop you…

Just saying I know that not all laws are enforced and that is a policy preference given to the President. I also know that Obama was born in US and not Kenya.

Re: Ask HN: Is There a Hacker News for Politics?

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Post by 6_45 »

The best resource for dispassionate, objective and accurate information regarding international politics that I know of is actually a YouTube channel called Caspian Report. I have literally never found another place, in the physical world or the digital world, where people are dedicated to being objective about political or human issues. Hackernews is very bad in this respect and it has gotten really bad recently. I've been on this website for years and years so it's not the illusion mentioned by the moderators -- I'm pretty sure that there has been a large influx of people who used to be on Reddit exclusively. Refugees who were driven out by reddits own disasterous decline in quality. This website can in fact be found when Google searching "Reddit alternatives." This is extremely sad because if hackernews dries up then I have no idea where to go.

Re: Ask HN: Is There a Hacker News for Politics?

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Post by diffeomorphism »

chatmasta wrote: post #6
tdhz77 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reading reddit politics makes me more knowledable than those that watch Fox News, nbc news, msnbc. I’m more well rounded and know arguments made on both sides.

You sure you’re getting arguments from both sides? In /r/politics at least, unless you’re sorting comments by “controversial,” you are definitely not getting both sides. What I liked to do before the election was bounce between T_D and HRC subreddits. Finding any unbiased source of news is a hopeless quest. The next best solution is to read bias on both sides and use it to triangulate the truth so you can develop you…

> As long as you consider all bias equally,

In many cases biases are not nearly equal in magnitude however, e.g. anti-vaxxers, homeopathy, climate change. Similarly, for politics bias on the left includes misleading statistics or cherry picking, while T_D goes much further and just blatantly makes stuff up (e.g. murder rate is way up; reality heavily disagrees). The truth is probably inbetween these extremes but nowhere near the middle.

Re: Ask HN: Is There a Hacker News for Politics?

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Post by TheAsprngHacker »

Others have mentioned several subreddits; I would like to recommend r/NeutralPolitics. I occasionally browse it and I'm blown away by the quality of the discussion compared to the discussions at other popular political subreddits, e.g. r/politics. Neutralpolitics's success is probably due to its rules and moderation, which help promote constructive discussion, and its lesser traffic compared to other political subreddits, meaning that it doesn't suffer from the unconstructive comments that result from the popular audience.

Re: Ask HN: Is There a Hacker News for Politics?

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Post by ben509 »

tdhz77 wrote: post #3
zer00eyz wrote: post #2

The closest thing I know of is a subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalDiscussion/ Pretty well moderated and mostly rational if left leaning (not an issue for me but...)

Reading reddit politics makes me more knowledable than those that watch Fox News, nbc news, msnbc. I’m more well rounded and know arguments made on both sides.

> ... than those that watch Fox News, nbc news, msnbc

TV news is a pretty low bar to set for yourself.

> I’m more well rounded and know arguments made on both sides.

Any decent political site will put out the talking points, but those don't give you much insight into the belief system undergirding them.

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