Would you please stop using HN for ideological battle? When accounts do that primarily, we end up banning them. It's not what this site is for.
I've done the same thing, sometimes the urge to react emotionally rather than intellectually and get a good stab in is too hard to resist, but some karmic retribution is only fair. You do the crime, you do the time.
> the techno-libertarian norm around here
This is the hostile media effect: ideological users see the platform as dominated by their enemies. See for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18664482, where HN is "left leaning, socialist Democrats".
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=13110004&sort=byDate&prefix&pa...