Yeah... I mean it's not a monolith in that respect, you do get the hippie crowd speaking up every now and then and sometimes shouting the techbro's down, but it's far and few between these days.

God I remember when I first got into programming and ran into the different communities and just assumed that all programmers were left-wing liberal artists expressing their individuality and building a shared common future that all would benefit from.

And then I had the culture shock of meeting programmers who.... had different ideas about the purpose of what they were creating, and somehow it never crossed my mind that some people just... really love money. Not need it -- they have their investments, they're comfortable, they wouldn't need to work a day in their life at their present rate -- but it's not enough, and they want more, and programming is a means to achieve that and are happy to sponge off the collective efforts of others to further that goal.

And that was the day I learned exactly what the purpose of the MIT license was for

Every time i see a non-technical political discussion there (for example immigration related) i just get majorly racist and bigoted vibes from the comments.