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Comment by fred_is_fred | Hacker News Reader

People post politics on Social Media for the same reason that always do - validation seeking.

Also I think in the world we live in there are exactly 0 people who have half conservative and half liberal friends. The two groups work at different companies, live in different cities, watch different news, and now use different social networks.

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As someone who lives in a big city I have a variety social contacts with various politics beliefs ranging from left to right and not caring about politics to caring too much. Many right leaning votes live in cities at least 20% in any region and many left leaning rural voters exist at least 20%.

> People post politics on Social Media for the same reason that always do - validation seeking

Speak for yourself - but I do it to discuss policy matters and exchange ideas about how to mitigate any negative consequences to the business.

Things like Right-to-Repair (product design), KYC/GDPR, stiumulus payments (e.g. should we advertise more if people will be more likely to spend?), etc.

Right, but you're a HN reader and not your average person on Facebook.

> Also I think in the world we live in there are exactly 0 people who have half conservative and half liberal friends.

IDK about 1/2 and 1/2, but it sounds to me like some of your friends would rather be closet conservatives than talk to you about politics.

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