You don't have to be a "left leaning, socialist Democrat" to disagree with the comment. It is rather worthless as an argument since it just a classic appeal-to-popularity fallacy.

As one someone I think you'd count in that group, I can say that you are unequivocally wrong. I am fairly active on this forum and I don't really reply to people who say things I agree with because its already been said. There is a surfeit of libertarians on this forum that give me opposing viewpoints to debate, as well as a minority of corpratists

Upvotes here may != correctness, but they are a pretty good proxy.

I've been here for a while, and most comments on policy/law really are downvoted for being dumb, not for whatever political label can be pattern-matched to it. If a suggestion presented in your comment correctly accounts for first-order effects and at least pretends to account for second-order effects, you can argue things that match pretty much any political ideology out there, as I've seen done here many times.

(Related, classifying things by political labels doesn't lead to correct answers in general.)

I partially agree with your general criticism. But as conservative in tech, I'm completely with the lefties on this one.

> HN in turn, are left leaning, socialist Democrats

This is the hostile media effect: ideological users see the platform as dominated by their enemies. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18671955, where HN is "the techno-libertarian norm around here".

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=13110004&sort=byDate&prefix&pa...