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Please don't. Ideological flamewar is against the site guidelines and we ban accounts that do it.

Also, these generalizations are entirely in the eye of the beholder. They're a creation of your own passions, based on whatever data sample happened to activate them. This explains why the people with opposite passions to yours see HN in exactly the opposite way: it's a big enough place to encounter a data sample that will activate any pre-existing perception. I've written about this many times:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

If we're to have a community that doesn't suck, at some point we all need to understand these mechanisms well enough to avoid repeating them uncritically.

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Well that was a little unexpected! I happened to write a long response to a similar comment yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25922311. I don't suppose it will convince you but a guy can dream.

The short version is that what you've posted here is actually the same, even though it seems opposite on the surface, as how people with one ideological bit flipped call HN a "leftist SJW and socialist haven", "always politically left", "they don't like conservative opinions here", "a liberal echo chamber", "the HN crowd is mostly woke", "heavily leaning to the left", "HN has a very anti-libertarian echo chamber", "HN has a heavy socialist lean, you are not allowed to have a differing perspective", "dang is an SJW cunt", and "any thought that differs from SV, left-leaning orthodoxy, is instantly flagged, downvoted, or deleted".

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