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These kinds of posts always devolve into flamewars on HN. I posted an Ask HN a couple years ago about "Is there a place on HN for interesting yet flame-war inducing topics?", and came to the conclusion (which was actually a shift in my opinion before I asked the question on HN) that no, in actuality, there is not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29532676

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Unfortunately, you are correct. I genuinely try to bring a rational, calm, fact oriented dialog about leftist ideas (decommodification of housing, trans regret rates, social and anthropological science/history around queer issues, systemic inequality, etc.) and largely the conversations I have get one great, engaged response and a whole lot of flames.

I had a fantastic discussion about the history of socialism on the African continent here, with one strongly anti-socialist person. And we both had to slap away people who just wanted to dunk on the "other team". It's unfortunate, really.

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