Washington, DC police put under federal control, National Guard deployed
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Re: Washington, DC police put under federal control, National Guard deployed
#2Previously (106 points, 4 hours ago, 77 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864192
Re: Washington, DC police put under federal control, National Guard deployed
#3Previously (106 points, 4 hours ago, 77 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864192
That one is flagged. Do you have the ability to merge threads?
Re: Washington, DC police put under federal control, National Guard deployed
#4Re: Washington, DC police put under federal control, National Guard deployed
#5Why is this post being flagged?
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#6Why is this post being flagged?
Because HN can't be seen to discuss the military take-over of the seat of government of one of the most powerful countries on earth. It would be unseemly. The coup will not only not be televised, it won't even be discussed.
Re: Washington, DC police put under federal control, National Guard deployed
#7Why is this post being flagged?
Because it’s off topic. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> What to Submit
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Re: Washington, DC police put under federal control, National Guard deployed
#8Why is this post being flagged?
Because HN can't be seen to discuss the military take-over of the seat of government of one of the most powerful countries on earth. It would be unseemly. The coup will not only not be televised, it won't even be discussed.
It’s more likely that users are flagging these posts because of the Reddit-tier commentary
Re: Washington, DC police put under federal control, National Guard deployed
#9Why is this post being flagged?
Because it’s off topic. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > What to Submit > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence…
The Hulk Hogan and Pope dying stories aren't flagged. Hell, the Hulk Hogan was unflagged.
The leader of the most powerful democracy on earth doing authoritarian actions and eroding norms is worth discussion.
Re: Washington, DC police put under federal control, National Guard deployed
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because HN can't be seen to discuss the military take-over of the seat of government of one of the most powerful countries on earth. It would be unseemly. The coup will not only not be televised, it won't even be discussed.
It’s more likely that users are flagging these posts because of the Reddit-tier commentary
Most of the commentary on this forum approaches Reddit-tier. People will flag political content because it's political, and for no other reaon.