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You'll find that HN has bipolar disorder when it comes to libertarian positions: Upvotes for: + Privacy, opposing mass-surveillance + Opposing cronyism Down
by clarkmoody 10y ago
You'll find that HN has bipolar disorder when it comes to libertarian positions:
Upvotes for:
+ Privacy, opposing mass-surveillance
+ Opposing cronyism
Downvotes for:
+ Free markets in education, healthcare, housing
+ Opposing "common sense safety" regulations
You would think that such an intellectual crowd would have more tolerance and curiosity for new ideas. But you would be wrong.
- dragonwriter 10y agoThat's not bipolar disorder; if it was an individual, it would just be having an ideology that doesn't neatly align for or against a particular common archetype. In the case of HN, it's both not particularly accurate and, to the extent it is at all accurate, is a mixture of some people not aligning with popular archetypes and people that do align with both libertarian and anti-libertarian archetypes being present in significant numbers in the HN community.
- dTal 10y agoThese positions don't seem incompatible to me.