On HN we discuss tech, which was mostly apolitical until Elon decided to make it very political. So yeah, politics is now in. I don't like it either, but you'll have to take it up with him. Flag all you want, it's not going away until that situation changes.

Technology was never apolitical.

Silicon Valley sprung up from the military industrial complex.

One of Tesla’s main driving forces was to ease the burden of the common man.

I said “mostly” , and that was a different era.

The military-industrial complex is well supported by both parties (sadly) so not really a “political issue” in today’s sense.

Politics has been discussed here for as long as I can remember.

And I’ve been a member for a pretty long time now.

I don’t say that it doesn’t happen (it is right now). I said it’s against the rules and that’s why the flags happen