HACKER Q&A
📣 howmayiannoyyou

Does HN kinda hate America?


Seems like all my pro-USA replies over the years have been downvoted into oblivion. Does anyone on HN actually like America?

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=howmayiannoyyou


  👤 allthetime Accepted Answer ✓
Love for "America" the country is a lot different than love for it's government, institutions, and corporations - often the two are at odds. Your most recent comment, shilling for Palantir, is not an expression of love for America the country - in my ungenerous view, it's uncritical, blind, misplaced patriotism. Being critical of large organizations with too much power over the American people is not "hating America". Seems you have trouble seeing the difference. I don't hate America, but I might hate the America you hope to achieve by placing your support behind corporate behemoths.

👤 krapp
Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


👤 austin-cheney
Objectively no.

As an aside most of HN is adamantly opposed to current Israeli policies. I suspect the primary difference is that despite all the flaws and missteps from the US now, and the past few years, the US generally shuns the concept of nationalism and various forms of identity discrimination.


👤 anovikov
Well, this is a far-left forum. Of course it has to, i mean, many people here even actually support so-called "Palestine" (i.e. Hamas).

👤 bigyabai
A lot of your comments are flagged simply for using divisive and hyperbolic language. It's probably your writing style that is causing it to get downvoted and not the sentiment behind it.

It's always a good opportunity to review HN's comment guidelines if you'd like to avoid flagging/downvotes in the future: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html