One of my favorite smaller forums is getting atroturfed with more pro-lockdown and SJW bullshit.
So if you have some free time I recommend creating an account and pushing it back towards a more 'moderate' direction.
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There has always been a strong Silicon valley SJW bent on Hacker news, no surprise there. Bunch of tech elitists who think they know everything about everything.
ycombinator indeed ... what else would you expect?
Tech industry's always been somewhat elitist, but it at least used to be populist and had a anti-authoritarian streak to it.
Techies used to want to start the next google; now they want to work for google.
The number of people on HN extolling the supposed limitless virtues of "safe" programming languages (i.e. Rust) is utterly nauseating. And I bet there is a strong correlation between obsession with programmer "safety" and SJW-ism.
Any criticism of Apple and people come out of the woodwork defending them. Like above and beyond giving them the benefit of the doubt. Total subservience. As you might guess I use Android personally for various reasons, but don't think I can't rant and rave about their bullshit too.
Also there was that post about Trump and H1Bs the other day. I was really shocked at the posts from people that felt entitled to be in the United States and "take" American jobs. I want to believe it was just salty Indians but I'm sure there were plenty of Americans who want open borders too. Look at all of the posts piping in with the usual talking points about how only the US has such a racist and xenophobic immigration system. Right? Then again with the topic and headline I'm sure it attracted lots of people ready to give their political opinion. There is definitely a lot of astroturfing going on. But I never thought of HN has a smaller forum as it seems very influential in the tech community.