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Surprisingly many topics are political [1], and an answer the very right-wing libertarian consensus here disagrees with will absolutely be voted all the way dow
by JulianMorrison 5y ago
Surprisingly many topics are political [1], and an answer the very right-wing libertarian consensus here disagrees with will absolutely be voted all the way down.
[1] Often, the assertion "this topic is not or should not be political" is political. Because politics is how we organize society on a large scale and saying things should be exempt from that, guess what, is a political opinion.
- phreeza 5y agoDunno, I'm pretty sure I've seen calls to break up or even nationalize Google and similar sentiments at the top quite a lot. That doesn't strike me as particularly right-wing?
- JulianMorrison 5y agoThe groupthink here isn't straight party-line, but it does have a lean.
- andrewflnr 5y agoThat's moving the goalposts quite a bit from "...absolutely be voted all the way down."
- JulianMorrison 5y agoNot really. It just means the topics people are touchy about don't follow the party line. They're still touchy and political about them.
- phreeza 5y agoI actually agree, I just think libertarian right wing is a mischaracterization, and I think it matters because the stereotype of the tech nerd is the atlas shrugged-toting libertarian, but HN doesn't really match that stereotype most of the time, I think.