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Hank Oslo
Personal blog · theamericansun.compoliticshistory
Hank Oslo writes The American Sun, a personal blog at theamericansun.com about politics and history. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Almost Killed Me”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in HN threads on US politics and the press, including a Watergate-as-coup argument and a 'human interest' story. Commenters mostly quote the posts rather than judge them.
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.
The sun never sets on the American Empire... (Or does it?).
Most-linked posts?
- Almost Killed Me2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-25
What Hacker News says?
And even the Watergate scandal was really a coup by the deep state, which was vehemently opposed to the changes Nixon had in mind [0]. Even if you don't buy the whole story, it should give you pause that the Watergate burglars were connected to the CIA. Or, put differently: "49 state landslide, 520 electoral votes, and a year later half the country genuinely believed he had to break into an office building to win" […
Comment linking /2019/11/10/impeachment-unified-theory-of-watergate/
on “Analysis of 200M newspaper pages: Sentiment has collapsed over the past 50 years”Submitted BAP on the Abuse of War (2022) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionP.S. dropped by your submissions because I caught the (withdrawn?) https://theamericansun.com/2021/04/22/almost-killed-me/ story. Read it, not a bad piece, although the "human interest" theme in the press is a bit wearisome and I generally avoid it.
Comment linking /2021/04/22/almost-killed-me/
on “Why Is Everything Liberal”Submitted Suburbs as Defensive Architecture as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Almost Killed Me as a story · 1 points
HN discussion