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Fiscally conservative, socially liberal (in that order) probably best describes HN.
by matwood 2y ago
Fiscally 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.