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Comment by jeltz | Hacker News Reader

Yeah, I have noticed that there are surprisingly many Trump supporters here given the international audience of the site.

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The audience of this site is VCs, founders, wannabe founders, and a few wannabe VCs. They will do anything to get rich. Used to be you'd get rich by making useful software, now you get rich by corruption.

Do not assume people downvoting stuff about Trump because they support him. I downvoted it because I am sick of American politics being dragged into every discussion - in this case the evasion of UK taxes by a Russian oligarch being facilitated by Cypriot accountants.

I am interests in learning more about the oligarchs involved, and the accounts, and the tax evasion, but I am not interested in reading the same comments about Trump I have heard countless times before. If anyone has something new to say about Trump I am happy to read about it where it is relevant to the topic being discussed.

I did not assume that. In this case Trump felt quite off-topic so I almost downvoted myself but I have seen many other threads where Trump supporters were plentiful, both in downvoting and posting comments.

Fair enough. The comment you replied to did though.

Yeah, I should have clarified that in this particular thread there was no reason to suspect the Trump fanboys being guilty of the downvoting.

Many people will assume you like trump if you are sick of hearing about him and avoid the topic. İt seems to be a shibboleth with some ppl that you must spit a curse at the demon or you secretly like him. Or if you dare critique any corruption on the opposite team as well. Binary thinking is fairly standard in all sectors of society.

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