<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>awalton</author><text>Unless you&amp;#x27;re a billionaire who can actually get a Congressperson on the phone, you&amp;#x27;re burning cycles. They&amp;#x27;ve got an army of staff that do nothing but write stock replies, print and sign documents with stamps and mail them back to constituents.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s what involvement in our government has become in America - a bunch of people shouting into an endless void, and the people in power doing more or less whatever fits their needs most at that particular moment.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dwheeler</author><text>This is absurd. I&amp;#x27;m a US citizen, so I&amp;#x27;ll contact my Congressman to have his staff look into it. I don&amp;#x27;t have any special power, any US citizen can contact their congressman, but maybe that will kick-start something.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Daniel Stenberg (curl) has been denied entry to the US for 870 days</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/us-visa.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>peter303</author><text>Careful. You could end up on a no-fly list or worse for consorting with persona non grata. (I am paranoid)</text><parent_chain><item><author>dwheeler</author><text>This is absurd. I&amp;#x27;m a US citizen, so I&amp;#x27;ll contact my Congressman to have his staff look into it. I don&amp;#x27;t have any special power, any US citizen can contact their congressman, but maybe that will kick-start something.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Daniel Stenberg (curl) has been denied entry to the US for 870 days</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/us-visa.html</url></story>