My parents and my grand parents lived under fascist dictatorship. My grandfather was interned into a labor camp by Mussolini's fascist regime. I know what fascism is and you don't! All you are doing is screaming and trolling people online. That is the intellectual reach of elitist now days.
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Yeah, and my grandmother lived under Nazi Germany, although she was a supporter and not put in any camps. Call me an elitist all you want, I don't care.
I'd be fine with banning political discussion altogether on this site, but until that happens, I'm not going to self-censor as others confidently let their opinions be known.
Banning political discussion was briefly tried here, nearly a decade ago. It failed, but it did reveal (or, remind) that there's no way to get a community like HN to agree on where the line should be between "politics" and "everything else", and that indeed that very question is itself political. So, there will be no more attempts to ban political discussion here. There will just be continued emphasis on the guideline that only stories that contain "significant new information" are considered worthy of discussion on HN.
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Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
