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Some of the very worst of the worst liberal takes, apologia for fascist shit, and of course cryptobro grifts and even Tesla worship keep coming from there. It's fucked.
I don't want to say all programmers or tech workers are like that, but I don't like what I've seen so far from people with a .programming suffix on their names. 
As a programmer, I've honestly met about one colleague who was actually reactionary. The rest have been pretty much fine and on the level. I don't know if it's just American programmers or I'm just a massive outlier, but I've never seen justification for this labelling in my own experiences.
Oh I've met more than one, and I'm from Europe. They're not as prevalent as OP is making them out to be but they definitely exist.
Most are just extremely milquetoast liberals.
I wasn't even talking about programmers in general in this thread; I was talking about the federated community, here, with the .programming suffix.
Yeah fair enough, small online tech-oriented communities tend to be complete garbage because of loose moderation policies, I'm not surprised at all.
I'm a code monkey and that's my experience. Then again, I live on the opposite side of the country from silicon valley.
I've met a ton of left leaning tech workers, but also a lot batshit libertarians, people extremely trusting of propaganda, and people completely ignorant about history, even pop stuff like the national guard opening fire on students at Kent State.
I think it really depends on organization to organization. Sometimes people are just so passionate about programming that it eclipses any deep thought outside of programming and they'll have shit takes out of ignorance.
I did no such labeling myself, not in this thread.
I'm talking about the ".programming" federated community and its many posters, that use that place's suffix when they go elsewhere and post reactionary, even cryptofascist takes.
I think the thing is that it's not just programmers, it's terminally online programmers. Most people that are programmers are not terminally online, they touch computer to make money. Basically they tend to be more like zuck than Elon. But then the ones online are like Elon, and that's who you see.
American programmers probably skew libertarian but it's certainly not a monolith here. I know a lot of them
american programmers tend to be paid a lot more than people elsewhere in equivalent positions