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by _xzxj 2744 days ago
HN is an ideological battle whether you like it or not, dang. Especially political threads like this one. Expressing views outside of the techno-libertarian norm around here should be allowed.
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It's a matter of degree. Fire may be inevitable; burning to a crisp is not.

> the techno-libertarian norm around here

This is the hostile media effect: ideological users see the platform as dominated by their enemies. See for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18664482, where HN is "left leaning, socialist Democrats".

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=13110004&sort=byDate&prefix&pa...

You didn't express an ideological view, though, you just took a snarky swipe at HN and called people bourgeoisie conspiracy theorists and capitalist bootlickers.

I've done the same thing, sometimes the urge to react emotionally rather than intellectually and get a good stab in is too hard to resist, but some karmic retribution is only fair. You do the crime, you do the time.

Fair enough, it is very frustrating to see the industry i am a part of be so...sociopathic.