FYI, I'm not who flagged you. You can look at my profile; the vast majority of my posts up until this post have never been about my politics; but seeing political arguments being made on a political post, I'm not going to hide what I believe.
> Blame the guy calling out the gloves coming off. Yall are good at hyperfocusing on the melodramatic banalities.
You're the one who was sounding vaguely threatening without being specific about anything. Regarding politics, the gloves have been off, for a long time, since before Trump was President. But the violent rhetoric definitely escalated since then. It's pretty rich to criticize the liberals and the left for violent rhetoric when there was non-stop violent rhetoric from Trump and Republican politicians while he was president, and frequent right-wing political terrorism echoing Trump's rhetoric. One good example being how the El Paso shooter defending his country from replacement and invasion. I remember when those bombs were mailed to the Clintons, Obama, George Soros, Joe Biden, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and Maxine Waters.
I remember Trump mocking Pelosi family after Pelosi's husband was beaten with a hammer. Even a ton of non-explicitly violent rhetoric, like calling immigrants an infestation, or when he called the media the enemy of the American people, or when he called liberals vermin, or him calling for Biden's day of reckoning, or how "Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country". I have heard Republicans, Fox news hosts and former Trump advistors, call for violence like when he was impeached, or when they lost the 2020 election. The 2020 election: all the threats against the election workers and elected officials, and then the actual January 6th insurrection.
It pisses me off to hear people equivocate that with calling Trump a threat to democracy, which is the truth; he tried to overturn the 2020 election. The right has been stoking violence; frankly, I have little sympathy. Like I said, the gloves have been off; I don't think one could do much worse than what's already been done.
> The tech articles are great. But the topics of cloak & dagger politics where the guidelines enable some sort of barely plausible disingenuous cosplay. Not so great.
> Since this whole article is flagged & only a select few of us are here. It's a good opportunity to have a frank discussion.
I kind of agree; there should be a clearer policy regarding the posts allowed here. Either political posts are fine or they're not, but it seems like some have been flagged and others not.
> I kind of agree; there should be a clearer policy regarding the posts allowed here. Either political posts are fine or they're not, but it seems like some have been flagged and others not.
Dang has to override popular opinion to keep articles like this alive. Per my observation, he's willing to contingent on good behavior, which does not characterize the comments here.
And I disagree that we need a black and white policy that all of politics is in or out -- if nothing else we'd spend all of our time quibbling about what is and isn't politics.
If he isn't careful, people will begin to accuse him of bias, just like the owners of Reddit or Twitter.
> Dang has to override popular opinion to keep articles like this alive. Per my observation, he's willing to contingent on good behavior, which does not characterize the comments here.
Are you saying it's because of dang that the post is alive and not flagged anymore? I had assumed they unflagged it because the comments haven't stopping.
> And I disagree that we need a black and white policy that all of politics is in or out
A rule with lots of room for interpretation and gray areas will be hard to understand and easy to accuse of bias and/or corruption. I think having a policy that isn't black-and-white is riskier, at least.
> if nothing else we'd spend all of our time quibbling about what is and isn't politics.
If they picked a clear rule and consistently enforced it, no one would need to quibble, because everyone would know what the site moderation considers politics, at least. Off-topic comments would get removed, and, until they stopped appearing, so would comments complaining about enforcement.
Especially? You're saying that the worst interpretations are actually justified?
> Gloves are about to come off. For our own protection
It seems like the only one spouting violent rhetoric is you.