Some of us are sick of politics all over HN all the time.
To answer the three replies that are already here:
No, it's not because we're Elon fanboys. "Aiding Musk's government takeover" means it isn't going to be an article about Musk per se, but about US politics.
No, it's not because we're closet fascists that want to silence all dissent. We don't care what you think of Musk, we don't care what you think about US politics, we just don't want it to be the dominant topic on HN. Yeah, we know, tech is bleeding over into politics, but... how many Musk stories do we need in one day? However many the number is, we're past it.
"Elon" brings out the worst in us? Yeah, that may be true... but it's true of the people who post the articles as well as of the people who comment.
> Some of us are sick of politics all over HN all the time.
That was never the situation.
> how many Musk stories do we need in one day? However many the number is, we're past it.
So the number is zero. Having one story for each major separate event is one story too many. This is still what it is. The longer the rationalizations for it get, the more sad it gets.
> Yeah, we know, tech is bleeding over into politics, but... how many Musk stories do we need in one day?
You should Ask Musk to cool down then. We didn't vote him in. We didn't ask him to break the law and compromise american security. We didn't grant him access to the US treasury. "We" voted this in. Those who didn't want this are 3 months too late.
And I see this excuse on every platform. I see a story I don't want to engage with... I just move on. Maybe you browse new, but I've never seen politics be "the dominant topic on HN".
To answer the three replies that are already here:
No, it's not because we're Elon fanboys. "Aiding Musk's government takeover" means it isn't going to be an article about Musk per se, but about US politics.
No, it's not because we're closet fascists that want to silence all dissent. We don't care what you think of Musk, we don't care what you think about US politics, we just don't want it to be the dominant topic on HN. Yeah, we know, tech is bleeding over into politics, but... how many Musk stories do we need in one day? However many the number is, we're past it.
"Elon" brings out the worst in us? Yeah, that may be true... but it's true of the people who post the articles as well as of the people who comment.