Unfortunately, satire often pales in comparison to reality. People do hold these opinions. It's largely why progress in society is as slow as it is.

Please define progress. To what end are more "social" policies progressing?

By progress, I mean a higher percentage of the population having a higher quality of life.

Welcome to this user’s mind. You should read his blog diving into a pillow merchant’s totally legitimate election fraud investigations, his advocating that state legislatures should ignore state constitutions and overturn election results as they see fit, and his comments repeatedly calling abortions infanticide. Unwrap enough layers of libertarian technobabble and you’ll find that the most prominent hn users are just out-of-touch boomers who haven’t realized this community hasn’t had an innovative bone since before Airbnb was incorporated.