Perhaps you could make a much less condescending comment. Reddit is a nice place to be condescending, but HN is nice because people are generally kind.

To be honest, HN is not all that much better if you're not a fan of the chosen party and it's liberal inclinations. You just get brigaded to death.

It's not really a chosen party. It's a flavor of some kind of techno-anarcho-libertarian capitalism.

Don't leave out the communistic-socialistic-opensource portion of the group, which has an awkward dependent relationship with the capitalistic group

True. In truth, there's probably more than one faction.