Hacker News Reader

Pretty sure at this point any disagreement automatically means you're a right-wing anti-vaccine protester who it is now socially acceptable to wish death upon and cough on hoping they get COVID-19. At least that is the impression I get from r/Portland and r/VancouverWA where these new left-wing terrorist communities are being bred.

View on HN

Wow. As a more left-wing person I've been shadow banned on HN for much less than this. HN used to be one of the few places where intelligent debate accros political spectrum was allowed. If you look at this whole comment thread all you see is one POV.

I'm quite left-wing myself (check out my downvoted comments against capitalism, lol), but it's a simple fact that local civil-society has combined with local activism in much of the developed world to generate a nasty sequel to 60s-70s-style ultraleftism. Are they some second coming of Stalin? Hell no, but are they going to go to every single planning board meeting, run for school board, and screech nasty names at you when you disagree with their most obviously self-serving, power-grabbing hot-takes? Oh yeah, they've been doing that at least five years now, if not longer.

The irony burns: people saying that anti-anti-vaxxers are a cult hell bent on controlling the lives of everyone regardless of what health advice is. Top comment complaining they haven't been banned fast enough for that heresy.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com