[RedCondor]

I'm just a communist programmer that hasn't been here for ages because I got bored of the hive-mind. Literally anything left-of-right-of-centre immediately gets flagged (if not outright banned by the mods), all in service of sheltering little liberal coder worker bees from scary labour propaganda.

I came back for a bit to get the latest on ChatGPT, and then noticed that, unsurprisingly, this place is crawling with demented Chinaphobes spreading whatever third-hand hearsay they can find about China. I'm vastly more knowledgeable about this subject than probably everyone here, and have tested my resources against way more capable critics, so sharing some disruptive well-chosen resources here and there isn't too hard.

The fact that the average stance here is something like "I'm not a Marxist, I don't like Marxism, I don't actually know much about Marxism, but I do know this: China isn't Marxist" is just hilarious to me.

[dang]

> Literally anything left-of-right-of-centre immediately gets flagged (if not outright banned by the mods)

The other day I heard it was "the non-Maoist stuff that dang & HN mods censor" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35166791), "when did HN get taken over by commies" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35078024), and "there are plenty of Marxist-Leninists here" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34344096).

Oh and then there's "Dang is a totalitarian liberal thought policeman", "banned every single prominent right winger", "extremely left-winged", "most people on HN are liberals", "socialist hell-hole", "this site leans left", "leftist bots", "always politically left", "skews quite left", "Obviously this website is rigged for the liberal agenda", "the level of wokeness is just absurd", "leftist ideological echo chamber", "run by radical leftists, so no surprise", and much more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26148870.

[RedCondor]

Someone may get called lots of names from "both the left and the right."

It doesn't mean they have, therefore, achieved some kind of enlightened balance.

The fact that you can cite a lot of angry right-wingers trying to pull discourse in their direction through whining just means there's a lot of right wingers posting here trying to form critical mass, as one would expect given the composition of America as a country.

You don't get more of those kinds of critiques from communists because 1) there's barely any communists here and 2) we don't argue like that.

Pretty fair modding, though. GJ.

[fortuna86]

I didn't ask who you claim to be, i'm pointing out what you are.

If you actually care what China is, which it appears you don't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarian_capitalism