The gap in quality between "HN talking about technology" and "HN talking about politics" is enormous regardless of which side of said politics you're on.

The cultural dynamics of the vaguely-republican contrarian types you get on hackernews is quite fascinating in some threads (not this one to be clear).

There’s a certain irony to NPR doing a “we talk too much about politics, his something else” story, and all the comments here being about how npr is too liberal. Deep down, everyone wants a politics story