Why was this removed from the front page? It was number one just a couple minutes ago
Political satire. People who take themselves and their political alignment too seriously will inevitably flag it.
Operation: Epic Furious
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#113Why was this removed from the front page? It was number one just a couple minutes ago
I think we need an official HN response. This is a legitimate video game, which happens to be satire. If we as a community cannot handle this, I don't know if I want to be a part of it anymore, even though I've been here since 2014.
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#114Is this post shadow-flagged or something? It’s off the front page.
They needed to make room for more AI posts
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#115It's great except the war is obviously for Israel not oil, we had more access to oil before the war
I think it might be even worse than that. It's a war for nothing at all. A defense analyst said, "we can't be sure that the administration has met their war aims" and it made me scream at the radio. What aims? They didn't even bother making something up. At least Bush 2 respected us well enough to lie. I have no idea what any of this is supposed to accomplish. You're watching a nuclear power putter around a marina wi…
Once again I’ll say: the purpose is clear, you just don’t want to admit it. The point is to destroy the US.
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#116Is this post shadow-flagged or something? It’s off the front page.
Unleash your chains: https://news.ycombinator.com/active
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#117epicfurious.com is blocked by my service provider. It’s a small, local, fiber company called mornington. They do not say why in the returned html. I do not approve of such blockage. Nevertheless. Knowledge is knowledge. So I post for everyone’s sake.
I was going to say that political censorship is out of control in the US, but that appears to be a Canadian ISP?
Yes.
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#118Is this post shadow-flagged or something? It’s off the front page.
go to /active
I stopped visiting the HN front page months ago, when all the absurd over-flagging started to happen
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#119This is genuinely funny. Spot on.
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#120It's great except the war is obviously for Israel not oil, we had more access to oil before the war
I think it might be even worse than that. It's a war for nothing at all. A defense analyst said, "we can't be sure that the administration has met their war aims" and it made me scream at the radio. What aims? They didn't even bother making something up. At least Bush 2 respected us well enough to lie. I have no idea what any of this is supposed to accomplish. You're watching a nuclear power putter around a marina wi…
Various potential aims have been mentioned - stop nukes, regime change, support the protestors, stop support for Hamas and the like. The trouble is none of it seems planned out or able to achieve them.