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Shikha Dalmia
Personal blog · theunpopulist.netpoliticsculture
Shikha Dalmia writes The UnPopulist, a personal blog at theunpopulist.net about politics and culture. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked posts are political commentary by Shikha Dalmia on government, free speech and censorship. The one comment only attacks Republican politics and does not discuss the writing.
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Defending liberal democracy against authoritarianism in the U.S. and around the world.
What Hacker News says?
They're for small government and anti-censorship in the same way they are for "secure elections". An election is secure when they win. It's fraudulent when they lose. Republicans today are far-right extremists straight out of an authoritarian regime, operating within the friend-enemy mode of politics ("everything for my friends, the law for my enemies"). And the project is to preserve this hierarchy with themselves…
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on “Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say”Submitted How Silicon Valley's Corrupted Libertarianism Is Dismantling American Democracy as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Are Free Speech Warriors Doing About Trump's Censorship-Industrial Complex? as a story · 5 points
HN discussion