Re:Ted Cruz Ends His Campaign for President
by clevernickname on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @10:39PM
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On the contrary, purely political stories are constantly upvoted and allowed on HN. They're just almost always left leaning stories.
I can almost guarantee that if/when Bernie drops out, a submission on it will be allowed to stay and hit hundreds of points.
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Basic Income stories are political, but they aren't purely political. There's an intellectual interest in thinking about and debating such a major social change. Political horse race stories are the opposite.
People tend to see HN as ideologically biased in favor of whatever they disagree with—that's a classic cognitive bias in its own right. Indeed there are some biases on specific issues (Snowden detractors don't do well here), but I'm not sure I agree they cut left or right overall. The community is pretty divided, much as the larger population is.