What happened is that students created a list of 250 people and vetted them.

So far they did an absolutely amazing job. There are LOT of potentially malicious actors from academia but so far looks like they did a good job at excluding them.

So those 250 people (not all of them are academics, only like half or so, maybe less) were chosen by students and they accepted.

So far, the whole movement and those people from the list haven't made a single mistake; and that's why they got 53% in election. And not ordinary election, these ones were marked by almost complete media blackout and outright lies (e.g. media claiming students are beating women, to give you an idea of what kind of lies).

Anyway, of course, we'll see.

The biggest focus right now for pretty much everyone is putting people in handcuffs, and I don't imagine much of ideological differences on that topic.

I have another account here that is 15 years old, but it ended up getting shadow banned as Hacker News got progressively more Liberal Progressive Dance In The Streets when Charlie Kirk Got Shot, and I’m not afraid to point it out.

HN has become a place where you can say anything political, so long as it is the one true way of the Liberal Progressive Left.

It didn’t used to be like this. It used to be a place where the same comment could point out the pros and cons of both sides, and it would encourage deeply thought out conversation.