Actually IMO majority of hacker news commenters are left leaning, and I try avoiding political news here because their rethoric is tiring (to me).
Re:A short critique of Stallmanism
by witty_username on Sunday December 11, 2016 @02:59AM
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I was just thinking on this.
I notice that the comments usually the fit the article. For example, this has tons of comments sympathetic to Stallman (he's generally pro-socialist). While some other pro-libertarian article would have mostly comments sympathetic to capitalism, libertarian, etc. This occurs on Reddit too.
So libertarian/pro-capitalist people see HN as left-leaning, while left-leaning people see HN as pro-capitalist.
I think it's quite the opposite. There's a lot of people living in the high-paid tech bubble here. Actual lefties seem thin on the ground, and less numerous than libertarians.
If HN is seen as left-leaning, then the political diversity spectrum in the US is in truly dire shape.
Far left is just as dangerous as far right, and needs to be called out. Ideologies that resulted in deaths of millions shouldn't be socially acceptable.
If you think materialist analysis isn't useful, well, maybe it's not useful to you. But geez, the author didn't even get into, e.g., Marxist analysis or anything so controversial :P