I flagged the story because it's uninteresting politics that doesn't satisfy intellectual curiosity.

I flagged your comment because it's anti-intellectual nonsense that attempts to emotionally manipulate readers and is unfounded in reality. Please keep that kind of thing to Reddit.

Mods didn't touch it*. Users flag things.

* (before I turned off the flags a few minutes ago)

edit: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40586961 for more