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The influx of conservative politics doesn't seem to be limited to HN from what I've seen but representative of a larger trend happening in our society at the moment.

Personally it's not surprising at all to me, it's just the pendulum swinging back.

> racism

Odd that you'd throw that in there - care to explain how the linked comment is racist?

It uses the n-word? Are you looking at the comment marked dead?

It's a quote from what someone else said (Alison Collins). How is that racist? Disallowing quotes is effectively letting her get away with what she said.

There's nothing there; tootie is just slandering

You'll have to enable "showdead" (the dropdown on your user page here https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kfrzcode ) before you can see it.

I am able to see the comment they are referencing.

TIL thx

I don't think it's particularly new, nor is it surprising given a general small-gov/libertarian ideology of the self-starter/hacker types that have always leaned towards self-regulation since the 80s and before. That said, yeah COVID and the associated lockdowns seemed to have been something that caused a lot of people to either reconsider this, or double down, which may be what you observed.

Election fraud should be concerning to everyone, not just conservatives.

I'm also not sure what you are stating is racist conspiracy nonsense - I only see one comment from OP at the moment.

There's a second dead comment with some objectionable language. And the comment on this thread that makes unsubstantiated claims about the implication of this case. And my concern about this posting isn't that we should or shouldn't be interested in this case of fraud, but rather that it's a local news story that is completely off-topic for HN. It's not academic, or technical, or related to entrepreneurship or any of the other topics of interest. It is suspicious that a 1 hour old account posts something that would normally get zero traction on this site suddenly shoots to the top. And the timing this close to the first public hearings on the Jan 6 committee is ever more suspicious.

The objectionable language seems to be quoting someone else. Although the person they're quoting self-censored in the original tweets so they probably should have done the same.

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