> or any other topic that no one ever changes their minds about

It sounds like you don't read any of the web development discussions here.

New Technology is evil, and Server-Side Javascript will be responsible for the second-coming of Christ.

The statement is an exaggeration, but that's about how passionately the HN crowd seems to push their ecosystem politics here.

> Hardly any discussion about politics, religion

I don't get a lot of this on reddit as well, unless I purposefully wander into related subreddits. Maybe the odd trump reference comes up sometimes.

» Hardly any discussion about politics, religion, or any other topic that no one ever changes their minds about.

Maybe I don't understand the word "politics" but I think most of my posts are inherently political in nature. When we talk about how we need to increase taxes and decrease public spending, it is a political statement. When I say most people who don't have children should seriously consider not having any children and those who do have children should consider not having any more, it is also a political statement.

Politics isn't just "Orange man bad" or "ten feet higher".

When I say “I deserve to exist”, that’s unfortunately a strongly political statement. And when people can afford to say “I avoid politics”, that is in itself political.

I have strong political views that I express other places and I am definitely not in a “privileged” demographic that can afford not to be political - I just don’t express them here except sometimes economics and try to back them up with as unbiased credible sources as I can.

No one changes their mind about their choice of stack, languahe, etc. Let alone the many threads that devolve into discussion about how to raise children or something. I’ve been here for years and I’ve awent the exact same arguments and threads dozens of time.