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Michael Moore
Personal blog · michaelmoore.compolitics
Michael Moore's personal blog at michaelmoore.com covers politics. Since 2010, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Michael Moore: Why Trump Will Win”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (16) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Michael Moore's blog and posts, mostly cited for his July 2016 prediction of Trump's win, his Flint water crisis coverage, and a fact page on Fahrenheit 9/11.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 16 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I was born in Flint, Michigan and raised on a dirt street by loving parents, two sisters and a lot of Green Giant in a can.
Most-linked posts?
- Michael Moore: Why Trump Will Win8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2016-07-25
- Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange (by Michael Moore)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-12-15
- Sicko was not banned in Cuba, unlike leaked cables suggest2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-12-18
- /trumpwillwin/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-08-11
What Hacker News says?
That's fairly close to #1 on Michael Moore's 5 points from July ( http://michaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/ )
Comment linking /trumpwillwin/
on “Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.”Submitted Michael Moore: Why Trump Will Win as a story · 18 points
HN discussionThere's no "story," this is a post-mortem. She lost, we get to figure out why. That takes a bit of humility. My lasting impression here was that the DNC's goal was not to win the presidency, it was to get Hillary Clinton elected to the presidency. There's a difference, and in this case, it was a vital one. During the Democratic caucuses I watched a lot of people vote for Hillary because it was assumed "she has the b…
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on “Donald Trump Is Elected President”Submitted How can you help Flint? Don't send bottled water as a story · 16 points
HN discussionI thought Michael Moore's reasons were pretty on point: http://michaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/ Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin were indeed critical to the election, though it was by a hair that Trump won. The liberal vote was not very enthusiastic, whereas Trump pulled in people that were die-hard fans.
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on “Donald Trump Is Elected President”Submitted Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange (by Michael Moore) as a story · 12 points
HN discussionWhat were the lies? Lies of fact please, not opinions. This is a good place to start: https://michaelmoore.com/movies/fahrenheit-911/ click on the facts tab
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on “Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?”Submitted Things They Won’t Tell You About the Flint Water Tragedy. But I Will. as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSeems to be same group of mainstream writers who also dished out Trump as a joke candidate and hailed Clinton as winner. Very few had the courage to talk against that trend, one of them was Michael Moore and check how accurate he was when compared to "mainstream": https://michaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/
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on “Sundar Pichai Should Resign as Google’s C.E.O”Submitted Sicko was not banned in Cuba, unlike leaked cables suggest as a story · 10 points
HN discussionNever underestimate the power of "stick it to the man". http://michaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/ he has some good points.
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on “A Report on the Flawed 2016 Democratic Primaries”Submitted New WikiLeaks Servers Placed in Nuclear Bunker as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYes, the corporate press was smug, hubristic, and often hilariously wrong. I think the best journalism came from people outside the normal news. Here are three nontraditional journalists who did excellent work: -- Nate Silver did the best math. His final election prediction is like a crash course in data science. Humble, thorough, quantifies uncertainty, acknowledges that errors may correlate. Explained in plain Eng…
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on “The unbearable smugness of the press”Submitted Is Trump Purposely Sabotaging His Campaign? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionmichael moore is an ideologue you may or may not agree with. However, he's the man on the streets on this one. He's been covering it for decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_%26_Me https://michaelmoore.com/10FactsOnFlint/ However, take that hat off and put on the opposite ideological hat. What really happened?
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on “Flint water crisis costs Michigan $600M. Preventing would have cost $80/day”Submitted TrumpiLeaks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMichael Moore nailed it: it's a rust belt brexit [1]. Four blue states in the Great Lakes rust belt -- MI, OH, PA, and WI -- all typically blue, all appear to have voted for Trump. Since I'm from that area, what Moore points out and the free traders refuse to acknowledge is free trade has been absolutely devastating to the region. Sure, maybe you can buy cheap appliances that don't last that long anyway. But all the…
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on “Trump Nears Victory”Submitted Michael Moore as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI think Michael Moore said it best. "I ask you to imagine how much different our world would be if WikiLeaks had existed 10 years ago. Take a look at this photo. That's Mr. Bush about to be handed a "secret" document on August 6th, 2001. Its heading read: "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US." And on those pages it said the FBI had discovered "patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparat…
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on “The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning's detention”Submitted Open Letter from Michael Moore to Donald J. Trump: "We Are All Muslim" as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWell, there's me and Michael Moore. https://michaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/ > Who are you thinking they are striking against, themselves? Being right is not a prerequisite. The workers that rose up in communist revolutions 100 years ago got throughly screwed over.
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on “Study: A universal basic income would grow the economy”A couple of articles to back up the African oil spill claim: http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latest-news/africas-oil-sp... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/niger-delta-b... It very true that we operate with a "out of sight, out of mind" mentality, particularly here in the western world. Oil companies don't deal with many of the spill scenarios they create well enough simply because they aren't being…
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on “Ask HN: What other low-probability high-impact events are we ignoring?”Michael Moore has already posted pointing out the falsity in this 'leak' http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/viva-wik...
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on “WikiLeaks: Cuba banned Sicko for depicting 'mythical' healthcare system”Which ones were right? Here's a quote from Michael Moore's Trump victory prediction: http://michaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/ 'And because this election is going to come down to just one thing — who drags the most people out of the house and gets them to the polls — Trump right now is in the catbird seat.' I'm wondering if most polls fail to take the above factor into account.
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on “Ask HN: Can tech solve broken polls?”>You have taken this photo from https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/i-was-elected-50-years-ago-to ... Not true. The source you allude to in your comment is Michael Moore's June 12, 2022 post on michaelmoore.com. In fact, my blog post [OP] is dated September 14, 2011; Dwight Garner's review of Moore's book in the New York Times: https://archive.ph/M0OF appeared on September 13, 2011, and was the basis for my blog post whi…
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on “Michael Moore was once the youngest elected official in the U.S.”You have taken this photo from https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/i-was-elected-50-years-ago-to... ... where he says: "50 years ago today, I became the youngest-ever elected official in the state of Michigan, the first 18-year-old to do so." US is larger than Michigan, I think.
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on “Michael Moore was once the youngest elected official in the U.S.”
