Yes, a HN member with a profile created in December of 2008, 5800+ Karma, with links to his Twitter and name of his employer in his profile page is a 五毛(50 center).

The CCP is truly all powerful!

If my dripping sarcasm wasn’t clear, you’re way off base here.

Edit 1: to the downvoters, please feel free to explain why it’s appropriate to accuse a 12-year HN member of being a paid shill for the CCP when all evidence points to the contrary.

The one you're replying to sounds like sarcasm to me. Or a very ironic comment given the comment it's replying to. It's hard to tell.

I might’ve thought so too, but the account I’m replying to seems to be a genuine CCP critic (which is totally fine!).

A post about Putin and the CCP exploiting US domestic political turmoil: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25830075

A book recommendation by a longtime China-skeptical writer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25843422 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gertz)

My personal preference is for a HN community where dissenting views don’t lead to assigning ulterior motives (in this case being paid to shill for the CCP) to our debating “opponents”.

Keybase, twitter, normal twitter tech posts stuff... followers... why randomly throw conspiracies at people?

You've broken the site guidelines egregiously with this comment. Please stop creating accounts to do that with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Hacker News discovers more than a billion Chinese people actually supports the Communist Party

More than a billion is quite a stretch, but you could probably find a few hundred million without too much trouble.