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The majority of users are from the US, the US's Overton window is shifted so far to the right that the right wing genocidal neo-liberals are considered 'left wing'(even by liberals themselves) because they're marginally to the left of the republicans on a few issues
The amount of liberals does probably outnumber the number of conservative users on there hence the site is seen as 'left-wing'
The nature of the upvote algorithm, and echo-chamber effect of sub does seem to either cause and/or make it appear as though the majority of users have the same views on whatever topics, hence 'hivemind'