Did you miss the word 'primarily'? That's the most important thing in what I posted above. These links explain why:

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

As for ideological battle generally—the site guidelines make a distinction between that and curious conversation, which is what we want here. Not only are they not the same, they're not compatible—for the same reason that having a tank battle and playing frisbee in the park are not compatible, or that boxing and dancing aren't.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Many topics here have ideological and political overlap—. That's generally ok, as long as there's a basis for substantive discussion (pure flamebait articles, for example, are off topic).

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

But the question is how people go about talking about them. If they're just trying to smite enemies and using the usual weapons (snark, name-calling, etc.) to do it, that's clearly against the site guidelines and not what we want here.

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

Hi Dan please delete my account and all associated posts / data I don’t need it. Don’t see an option to do it myself in settings. Thanks!