I thought ycombinator tried to stay away from political stuff? I've been around for years and that was usually the case. Why is there a popular post about drug addiction and the response from "Washington"? This isn't tech related.
Some intellectually interesting stories have political overlap. It's possible to discuss them in a thoughtful way, without descending into political or ideological battle.
The guidelines also say not to comment complaining that a submission is off topic or inappropriate for HN, so you need to make up your mind on whether you actually wanna follow them or not.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments
I'll quote the guidelines here:
"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity."
Most comments here are political. Did I miss a blog post that says to be politicans?