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... Very far left. How do you measure "far left"? Do you mean they are concerned with all people, and they don't suffer illusions of "I built my fortune on my

• bpodgursky 1y ago
  Let's just say that if you got all your news from reddit, you would be very surprised that conservatives anywhere ever won an election.
  • johnny22 1y ago
    that really depends on which subreddits you're in!
• dlivingston 1y ago
  Not "very far left" as in socialist / communist. "Very far left" as in "a large and vocal majority of liberals and progressives" which, when combined with the general Reddit tendency to groupthink and mock/attack opinions that aren't the subreddit status quo, make it a very uncomfortable place to be. (And I'm on the left!)
  • jghn 1y ago
    This just demonstrates how far the Overton window has shifted in US discourse if one views HN a hive of "vocal majority of liberals and progressives"
    • dlivingston 1y ago
      My comment was regarding Reddit, not HN. I would characterize HN as left libertarian, in general.