My experience has been that the large majority of political content posted here is (at least apparently) mainly here so that people (who are mostly in mutual agreement) can post about how they dislike some political entity or another. I would like to see much less of this on HN personally; it's not insightful and does not promote curiousity.

US domestic politics

I won't give you examples because all of them can be spinned about being relevant

"Well HN is an american site after all"

"Most of the HN users are american voters so it's relevant for them"

"Hackers need to be aware of what's happening in the world"

"You only say that because you disagree with that side"

etc

Same with the stories about Tesla flagged. If you read the comments it's always the same: "Pro-Tesla crowd is flagging everything negative about Elon so the bad news never reach the front page" vs "Anti-Tesla crowd flagging everything because they hate Elon"

HN is the best without politics. But it's not up to me.