Now the grandparent comment got [flagged]. Posting again for posterity:

>Hacker culture is inherently antiauthoritarian, therefore queer and leftist.

Best example of Poe's Law that I've seen on HN in ages. Leftism is hilariously authoritarian, and hacking culture never had anything to do with sexuality/gender.

>If you have a problem with queer leftists in your hacker community, you are the problem and need to leave.

Yes, I have a problem with totalitarian, authoritarian fundamentalist leftist. If you're OK with them in your hacker community, you are the problem and need to leave.

[flagged] again so I'll repost:

This is what happens when you allow terminally online totalitarian leftists into your project. They cannot operate without purging the opposition. I'll cite John O’Sullivan’s First Law:

"All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing ... The reason is, of course, that people who staff such bodies tend to be the sort who don’t like private profit, business, making money, the current organization of society, and, by extension, the Western world. At which point Michels’s Iron Law of Oligarchy takes over — and the rest follows."

> I'll repost for posterity:

There is no need to do that. People who want to see dead comments can turn that option on in their profile.

But the average lurker not logged in cannot see them.

I registered just to confirm this. Thanks for saying it's also an option, but I doubt I'll log in every time/too lazy to enable cookies.