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As a non US citizen that does not live in America and just looks from the outside, I'm always amazed at the rapid transformation going on in the last decade. If
by kikokikokiko 6y ago
As a non US citizen that does not live in America and just looks from the outside, I'm always amazed at the rapid transformation going on in the last decade. If hackernews is a sample of the general american population, you guys are becoming communist. And it won't end well.
- michaniskin 6y agoDon’t worry, the American spirit of liberty and free market capitalism is alive and well. It’s just that most Americans are busy getting things done instead of planning everyone’s lives for them on twitter or HN.
- tasubotadas 6y agoThat's probably mostly California but yeah - it's amazing (also as an European but from a post-soviet country).
- linschn 6y agoBecause from Reagan on, America has been doing quite well of course...
- karlakush 6y agoHN is very much not a sample of the American populace. It's a sample of the farther left-leaning portion of Silicon Valley. The moderators here regularly ban right-wing users when they gain too much traction.
- jquery 6y agoI would be alarmed too, except I hang out in diverse US communities. Hacker News is not a sample of the general american population. Increasingly, it is not even a sample of tech workers. Tech workers tend to be rather libertarian, and this has not changed. HN is becoming a sample of Bay Area politics and/or Twitter, neither of which are representative of the USA. Sorry about the downvotes you received. I’ve been on HN a long time. It is sad to see the great decline of HN. Check out reddit.com/r/TheMotte if you want something a bit more representative and more similar to the HN of old, with its attendant high level of discourse as opposed to the shit-flinging and downvote brigading you see on HN today.