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. 
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.