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I think that would be only true for tech. I don't think people here are smart about politics. For example, I asked What do you like about liberalism, capitalism and conservatism?, and only a few were able to give ok answers (e.g. Nemo's answer that was actually downvoted).
I don't know if I'd even say that about tech as a hole. Mostly just Linux and FOSS. Anything involving Windows or Mac is met with blind fanboyism most of the time.
Checks out
The other day in a political post I replied to someone by saying being well off doesn't automatically make you an asshole and we should judge people by their character and not their wallet, and that was not met with positivity.
I'm very much to the left, but I think there are more communist and anarchist viewpoints here than you would get somewhere more mainstream.
Not that I inherently disagree with many of their beliefs, but I don't find it as useful to talk about in broader political news posts as they do. I know it discourages me in participating in many threads.