Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning

Post by steveBK123 » Sun, Jan 25, 2026, 2:24 PM UTC

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The statement you say was O'Hara was made by McLaughlin (DHS employee). If the article implies otherwise, it's incorrect. Here's the facts as I see them: A protestor who had a gun he was legally allowed to carry got involved in an incident with ICE/Border Patrol. The protestor was interacting with the agents and other protestors, at which point BP or ICE pepper sprayed him and took him down to the ground. At least 4…

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Post by tomhow » Sun, Jan 25, 2026, 2:35 PM UTC

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The story you're talking about was on the front page mostly between about 1pm and 3pm U.K. time, then hovered around the bottom of the front page and dropped off as most of the U.S. came online. And you're talking about one article but asserting a trend or pattern. Here are recent stories about U.S. politics with inflammatory titles that spent multiple hours (over 22, in one case) on the front page. The Palantir app…

You're really comparing these to the following headline? > The UK is shaping a future of precrime and dissent management All of your examples focus on specific events and factual claims, not sweeping doom and gloom claims about the state of the US. I'll leave the reader to draw their own conclusions. By the way, we're both making claims here based on what we've seen of HN, not some kind of objective scientific analys…

Post by acdha » Sun, Jan 25, 2026, 2:38 PM UTC

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Think about why the administration and its backers lie so frequently: they know they’re lying, and they know that evidence will come out showing that they’re lying, but they’re gambling on a lot of people being busy and not following the story closely enough to realize how misleading the initial claims were. They do that because their policies are unpopular and they would lose power if most people voted. That’s why t…

People are not busy; they're willfully blind to the truth. These people hang out on Facebook which will never surface the truth to them, only misinformation.

Post by foldr » Sun, Jan 25, 2026, 2:45 PM UTC

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You're really comparing these to the following headline? > The UK is shaping a future of precrime and dissent management All of your examples focus on specific events and factual claims, not sweeping doom and gloom claims about the state of the US. I'll leave the reader to draw their own conclusions. By the way, we're both making claims here based on what we've seen of HN, not some kind of objective scientific analys…

You've cited one example and claimed it to be evidence of a trend. But you haven't shown evidence of a trend. One-offs happen all the time on HN for all kinds of reasons – randomness as much as anything else. I've provided five examples I could find quickly. I'm not getting further into a debate about the definition of “inflammatory”. When discussions turn into debates about definitions of inherently subjective terms…

Post by direwolf20 » Sun, Jan 25, 2026, 2:47 PM UTC

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People have been making a version of this argument for as long as I've been doing this job. There is always a feeling of this-time-is-different, how-can-you-not urgency. I'm not saying that's wrong, but there's a counterargument. The counterargument is that political flames have a way of consuming everything they touch and that if we had listened to this argument in the past, HN would have ceased to exist years ago.…

but fighting against a tyrannical, oppressive, illegitimate government is exactly what a hacker would do? if you want an apolitical forum, don't call it hacker news, it's false advertisement. maybe call it ostrich news or something.