Comments decrying or dismissing the disclosure to the public of long-hoarded information is saying that, IMO, and that's the joke. It sounds like a point no reasonable person would make. "there's too much going on right now for this long-awaited transparency" has got to be the silliest thing I've heard on HN in a while.

Something can be highly anticipated and utterly inconsequential at the same time. (See Star Wars Episode 1 as a primary example)

These assassinations were tragic and criminal and shocking at the time, but one has to be Gen X or older to have any emotional connection to them. To the rest of us, it’s just a chapter in our history books that’ll get a new paragraph or two appended now.

To be frank, there are far more important things here than the JFK conspiracy. I am glad it’s being released, but it’s okay to have issues around the context in which it’s being released. It’s clear with the stack of other executive orders that this is intended as a distraction.

In the meanwhile, we have things like the equal employment opportunity act of 1972 being repealed.

If you think that last one is a good thing then I see why you’re being reactive.

> In the meanwhile, we have things like the equal employment opportunity act of 1972 being repealed.

This isn't true. Executive Order 11246 got repealed, which people have lately been calling the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1965 even though that was never its name. The Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 is still the law of the land and Trump has made no attempt to repeal it.