1. At a quick skim, the opening sentence can seem critical of "leftists". 2. The opening sentence a couple of paragraphs down seems critical of "capitalism".

1. At a quick skim, the opening sentence can seem critical of "leftists". 2. The opening sentence a couple of paragraphs down seems critical of "capitalism". Hacker News is better than most forums on the contemporary Internet. But even here, I believe that most readers are just skimming most of the comments. And at a quick skim, keywords that make you angry jump off the screen more prominently than ideas you might agree with. There was a time in which expressing critiques of "all sides" made one sounds more reasoned, or credible. But today, if you seem to be throwing shade on the left AND on capitalists in the same comment, then it's kind of a crapshoot. Either someone will upvote it, and a hive will follow suit, or the opposite. You're as likely to just piss everyone off as you are to seem balanced.