@dang... what gives? This is definitely HN-worthy.
What is HN-worthy is decided by HN users. They voted enough to flag it. Probably because there's not anything very interesting or valuable to discuss about it. It will either be an echo chamber or flame baiting.
Looks like it got unflagged. Thanks to dang if he was the one who did it.
Only cosmetic. It's nowhere on any actual page.
"Most active current discussions" link is quite useful for finding big heated (possibly flagged) discussions like this one:
Excuse me while I step on my soapbox, but as more of an outside observer this particular issue has really demonstrated the extremely toxic political culture that results from the two party system in the US.
So many reasonable people are very happy to simply brush this away out of some "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" primordial thinking.