| ▲ | renewiltord 5 hours ago |
| Yeah, the fraud’s been around for a while and the Biden DoJ was investigating it. One of the guys got fingered trying to bribe a juror¹ but he stole half the bribe money. The politicization of the issue means that Democratic Party aligned people continually flag any reference to the scam on HN though. If anyone else said that someone broke in and stole all the records from a daycare days after it was accused of fraud it would be considered a bald-faced lie but because of the political alignment (this is VP candidate Walz’s state) everyone is forced to pretend there’s no scam. ¹ Paradoxically the one honest juror who reported the bribe was removed from the case. No others reported any bribe which obviously must mean they received none. |
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| ▲ | linkregister 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Rather than stating, without data, that Democratic Party alignment led to flagging of the story here on HN, one can look at the numerous overt statements by some of the most active users. These users claim they spend significant time flagging all political stories not tied to computing or science. These statements are trivially found using https://hn.algolia.com. |
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| ▲ | renewiltord 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Typing “Trump” into that trivially reveals disparate outcomes. Then again perhaps “Trump says Maduro captured” is computing and science to these people. I have no peer-reviewed evidence that they don’t think that so I must admit it as equally likely as anything else. | | |
| ▲ | linkregister 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | It is a common error to misunderstand the base rate of an event. In this case, the frequency of media articles about Trump dwarf other political subjects. Or one could assume a vast conspiracy to explain the phenomenon. | | |
| ▲ | renewiltord 18 minutes ago | parent [-] | | False dichotomies like that are easy mistakes to make. Consider Reddit, no conspiracy, and yet overwhelmingly of some opinions. Coordination requiring conspiracies is naïve, but forgivable among novices of epistemology. |
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| ▲ | joe_mamba 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
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| ▲ | laidoffamazon 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I don't recall Brett Favre's scam in MS on HN | | | |
| ▲ | Analemma_ 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Trump has pardoned literally dozens of Medicare fraudsters [0] (Lawrence Duran and Philip Esformes are two of the biggest ones, but there are a bunch more smaller ones), and also fired ~20 people who were attempting to investigate Medicare fraud. I haven't seen any HN articles about this, never mind getting to the HN front page twice a day, so I'll take your retraction and apology now. [0]: https://tennesseelookout.com/2025/04/02/trump-says-hell-stop... | | |
| ▲ | everybodyknows 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > I haven't seen any HN articles about this Okay, now there is one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46916593 Maybe you'd want to upvote it? As the book says, better to light a single candle ... | |
| ▲ | joe_mamba 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | >so I'll take your retraction and apology now For what? There's critical anti-Trump articles on HN daily most of them justified. But not much on Dem crimes. | | |
| ▲ | wredcoll 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Are we now required to ignore the majority of trump related crimes just so we can we report an equal number or something? | |
| ▲ | mock-possum 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Isn’t that just a case of “reality has a well-known liberal bias?” |
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