[gjsman-1000]

The fact that this is downvoted, shows HN commentators have no idea why the current president won.

Those 20 year olds aren’t ignorant of the fact that they are being discriminated against, and they will one day be our future voters and politicians.

Can we be surprised when they want to burn it all down? Can we be surprised when they flock to anyone offering a sympathetic ear?

Reverse discrimination is a fundamentally short term and self-defeating strategy.

[thijson]

I was listening to MLK's speech the other day, and he said he wanted his children to be judged by the content of their character, and not the color of their skin. Seems like that's not what is happening today, racism (and sexism) is alive and well. Around the time in question Google fired one of their employees for publishing a memo about gender differences, Google gave in to the cancel mob and fired him (James Damore).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_Ideological_Echo_Ch...

[scarab92]

I’m not sure if it’s automated behaviour, but I often notice my posts go to -3 within a minute of being posted then climb back to positive over time.

[dijit]

There are definitely bots crawling this site for things to engage with, the speed in which votes happen compared to how long it would take to read a comment I make is inhuman.

I doubt its HN itself, and it seems positive for some things (anything that could be seen as pro-startup, pro-company, anti-regulation), while negative for other things (anything pro-europe, or political in a way that could be misconstrued as an endorsement of the right- even if the comment itself is actively admonishing the right).

I have contemplated experimenting with short lived comments (essentially: spam) to see how they are manipulated and to confirm this behaviour, but I doubt dang would approve, so I have refrained.

Case-in-point: this comment was downvoted within 1s of being posted.