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Please stop using HN to conduct ideological tirades. You've been crossing into personal attacks, taking discussions into flamewars, and behaving high-handedly. None of this is good conversation.

Everyone with an agenda thinks that they're enlightening the world with their rhetoric ("in the desperate hope that some young people will read this and understand") and imagines themselves surrounded by enemies ("this is one of the most heavily Progressivist boards on the entire Internet") while they of course are simply offering "facts". What's striking is how predictable this pattern is and how little it depends on the content. You could easily, and many do, have the opposite politics and behave the same way and make the same claims about other people. On HN this typically includes self-flattering interpretations of downvotes.

This is little different from preaching on a street corner, haranguing passers-by. When passers-by react badly, it's apparently irresistible to conclude that they're cretins. But really it's just that most of us don't like being preached at. I'm sure many of the people downvoting you agree with at least some of your views. But when you're trying to have an interesting conversation and ideologues show up with megaphones, it's a real bummer. And HN being a public forum, it's not like there's a quieter street corner we can all retreat to.