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These are the same noises that were made on the right prior to the election. As long as people are sufficiently mad about the status quo, the other party has a
by rothron 2y ago
These are the same noises that were made on the right prior to the election. As long as people are sufficiently mad about the status quo, the other party has a chance to take over.
- jorts 2y agoKeep in mind this site swings heavily right wing.
- aydyn 2y ago[flagged]
- girvo 2y agoIt skews techno-libertarian, which is more right than left. Always has done, at least as long as I’ve been here. Makes sense considering the audience.
- aydyn 2y agoThere are certainly vocal and well spoken conservatives here, but by and large this site skews massively liberal. I mean just read this threads comments, ffs.
- matwood 2y agoFiscally conservative, socially liberal (in that order) probably best describes HN.
- moomin 2y agoI feel like that's a story HN and a lot of tech likes to tell itself, but the truth is that when push comes to shove they support candidates who are neither, but _are_ deeply right wing. Concrete actions tell the real story.
- jappgar 2y agofiscal conservatives that nevertheless don't want their mil contractor jobs to disappear.
- Der_Einzige 2y agoThe actual lib-left side of tech evaporated. ACLU, EFF, even fedora-core atheists etc are a shell/joke of their former selves. The remaining ones (i.e. Stallman) back Bernie, Yang, or still buy into the green party. I got mass downvoted earlier and a "talking to" from Dang in regards to me pointing out that a certain Ron Wyden having one bad vote about BDS/isreal isn't a good enough reason to throw the baby out with the bath water and turn against one of the only reliable techno-libertarians. This site is done with its purported liberalism.
- nobody9999 2y ago>fedora-core atheists What, exactly, is a "fedora-core atheist?" How might such an atheist differ from an atheist who runs Debian or OpenBSD?
- tirant 2y agoEconomically liberal (as in Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell) and socially liberal. Trumps tends to be economically liberal internally and a conservative for international economics.
- zanellato19 2y agoSo... Right Wing?
- moffkalast 2y agoEntrepreneurs are kind of by definition neoliberals, aka libright.
- Macha 2y agoOf 5 years ago, maybe.
- ks2048 2y agoI agree there are a lot of right wing, libertarian types, but I'm guessing just voting by the HN crowd would be a Harris landslide over Trump. For example, donations for Alphabet employees was supposedly 89% to democrats, 11% to republicans.
- km144 2y agoI mean considering the degree to which people on this site style themselves as intellectuals, it would be pretty astounding to me to hear that most of them voted for Trump this time around given his fairly disastrous economic agenda. Mostly tariffs—I don't really believe HN is that protectionist