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I’m guessing they both read a Vox article that used that word and thought it sounded smart?

Googling "ossification of American policy for a generation" returns one result, this thread.

A google news search for “ossification” turns up a ton of articles starting in 2017. Seems like it became a political buzzword back then.

Kind of like “post-truth”.

Putting aside the "ossification" drop, having the same sentence word for word, posted within a few minutes of each other is weird.

I don't have a link but I know it's happened in a few other HN comment sections.

Of course we have no clue as to how HN's algorithm works and what they do to mitigate manipulation on this platform. I definitely notice corporate spam on certain topics from time to time.

Please report it to the mods if you can find it. They asked that we do.

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