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Reddit, but you have to carefully select your subs. And it's not very useful for politics, because it's very one-sided, very far left, and they ban you for any
by bufferoverflow 1y ago
Reddit, but you have to carefully select your subs. And it's not very useful for politics, because it's very one-sided, very far left, and they ban you for any transgressions that don't fit the narrative.
- rattray 1y agoShould we create a subreddit for this, with a news/politics focus but an hn vibe?
- bufferoverflow 1y agoGood luck with that. Their moderation is too insane and not transparent for my taste. And, considering HN is quite far left, you won't create anything new really.
- fake-name 1y agoYou think HN is left? Ha. HN is at best center-right.
- bufferoverflow 1y agoTry posting anything right-wing, like government crime stats of black vs white people. You will get banned.
- robobro 1y agoRacism = right wing? You mean alt-right?
- bufferoverflow 1y agoIf you think posting crime stats of all races is racism, you got brainwashed by a cult.
- jghn 1y agoThey did say HN is center-right.
- lwansbrough 1y agoThey love to pull up the crime stats but never the traffic stop stats or police-initiated contact stats or use of force stats. Wonder why.
- CalRobert 1y agoLots of people here favour a lenient regulatory environment and are pro business which seems classically centre right. Nuanced discussion of things like immigration are challenging though, in all fora I think. I’ve tried to make the point that this is a great opportunity for Europe to pick up valuable American immigrants but somehow am apparently being xenophobic by sharing data of net tax contributions of immigrants by region of origin
- jaybrendansmith 1y agoThat's simply off-topic. Not sure why you would post that on Hacker News. Most things political simply get downvoted on that basis.
- const_cast 1y agoBecause that's not right-wing, that's just explicitly racist. I mean, are we really going to sit here and pretend to be so stupid that we might legitimately think someone is posting that for not racist purposes? Look, you can be as right-wing as you want and get away with it, nobody cares. The problem is a lot of right-wingers just... can't do it. They can't. They have to throw in something racist, or something sexist, or say something disparaging about brown people. It's like some kind of compulsion, I don't know. You can talk about immigration policy allllll you want. You can. What you can't do is call Puerto Ricans trash. That's off the table. So, if your example you're looking up to is someone like Trump and his cronies, that basically means yes, you're censored. Not because you're right-wing, but because you're crude and don't know how to express your views in a way that isn't disingenuous. Just be normal, be good faith, don't race bait, and you know... I promise it'll work out. I promise.
- pmdr 1y agoWell, the first comment accurately describes reddit AND it hasn't been downvoted to hell, so you might be right.
- fake-name 1y agoReddit isn't far right, except some esoteric subs either. Reddit is generally fairly centrist-left for the most part.
- bufferoverflow 1y agoName any far-left position that's not widely supported on Reddit.
- BrawnyBadger53 1y agoPrice controls, direct democracy, abolishing capital. I'm sure you can find places where these are supported but similarly you can find subreddits where far right ideology is supported. The average redditor looks at memes, askreddit threads, and whatever hobby subreddit exists for them.
- bufferoverflow 1y agoAll of these are widely supported on Reddit.
- joris_w 1y agoConclusion: US left is western european center-right. These political denominators are all relative to your local center.
- raintrees 1y agoI think that just shows our different perceptions - I, too, see many HN posts as very left. Frequently seen in assumptions about values/ethics/morals... Update: On further reflection, it is not HN that I am describing. It is the content of the posts that seem to lean that way... I am outside both of the US parties, I think it is like being sober at a party of those partaking in alcohol. Different perception of the same situation.
- leereeves 1y agoHN is definitely left of center by American standards. For example, it's generally anti-Trump, while half the country supports him.
- bufferoverflow 1y agoO RLY? Which right-wing positions are common/popular on HN?
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- michaelteter 1y ago... Very far left. How do you measure "far left"? Do you mean they are concerned with all people, and they don't suffer illusions of "I built my fortune on my own" (ignoring all the socialist infrastructure which enabled their success)?
- bpodgursky 1y agoLet's just say that if you got all your news from reddit, you would be very surprised that conservatives anywhere ever won an election.
- johnny22 1y agothat really depends on which subreddits you're in!
- dlivingston 1y agoNot "very far left" as in socialist / communist. "Very far left" as in "a large and vocal majority of liberals and progressives" which, when combined with the general Reddit tendency to groupthink and mock/attack opinions that aren't the subreddit status quo, make it a very uncomfortable place to be. (And I'm on the left!)
- jghn 1y agoThis just demonstrates how far the Overton window has shifted in US discourse if one views HN a hive of "vocal majority of liberals and progressives"
- dlivingston 1y agoMy comment was regarding Reddit, not HN. I would characterize HN as left libertarian, in general.