"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I come to Hacker News to avoid this. You have practically every other website on the internet to discuss politics, why here?

The usuals will be along any minute to defend this.