Politics is the Mind-Killer: still applies; protects this forum from redditification and encourages us to avoid pointlessly alienating people/making enemies of each other.
US politics posting allowed/discouraged/banned: I’m not too fussed about where you set this dial. But if political discussion is going to happen here, I think it would be bad if you/we got pressured into bothsidesism (which could happen if PitMK is misrepresented as a prohibition on openly taking partisan-coded positions).
Fair, but I see this as two distinct things:
Politics is the Mind-Killer: still applies; protects this forum from redditification and encourages us to avoid pointlessly alienating people/making enemies of each other.
US politics posting allowed/discouraged/banned: I’m not too fussed about where you set this dial. But if political discussion is going to happen here, I think it would be bad if you/we got pressured into bothsidesism (which could happen if PitMK is misrepresented as a prohibition on openly taking partisan-coded positions).