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David Swanson
Personal blog · davidswanson.orgpoliticswriting
David Swanson writes Let's Try Democracy, a personal blog at davidswanson.org about politics and writing. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite David Swanson's blog for his positions on Russia, pointing to a post titled 'why-russia-is-crazy'. Both comments use the post as a reference in a debate about his stance.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Writings, video, audio by David Swanson
Most-linked posts?
- /why-russia-is-crazy/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-13
What Hacker News says?
> David Swanson has taken several openly anti-Russian positions: > https://davidswanson.org/why-russia-is-crazy/ How could you not notice the obvious sarcasm that drips from every sentence in that article? Those aren't anti-Russian positions, they're pro-Russian positions .
Comment linking /why-russia-is-crazy/
on “Modern War Institute: We Ignore the Human Domain at Our Own Peril”Submitted Chomsky Wants You to Wake Up from the American Dream as a story · 40 points
HN discussionMaking that assessment based on one appearance on a podcast is a pretty weak conclusion. David Swanson has taken several openly anti-Russian positions: https://davidswanson.org/why-russia-is-crazy/
Comment linking /why-russia-is-crazy/
on “Modern War Institute: We Ignore the Human Domain at Our Own Peril”Submitted How Hollywood and America learned to stop worrying and love the bomb (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion