I’ve previously seen a lot of instances “the US is de-democratizing” has been used as a stepping stone in a broader argument against a specific political figure or faction (usually either Trump or the federal bureaucracy), and I was pattern-matching your post to them. Even if that wasn’t its intended function, non-timeless posts about partisan politics are still close enough to that kind of soldier-mindset discourse that I think they should be discouraged on Lesswrong.
I’m not in charge of whether or not my posts get promoted to the front page, but regardless, I’ve added the politics tag; feel free to use the feed UI to reduce the sorting score of those posts. In general I think LessWrong should be a place where people feel free to make neutral political projections, because they’re an important part of the territory.
I didn’t think I was soapboxing.
I’ve previously seen a lot of instances “the US is de-democratizing” has been used as a stepping stone in a broader argument against a specific political figure or faction (usually either Trump or the federal bureaucracy), and I was pattern-matching your post to them. Even if that wasn’t its intended function, non-timeless posts about partisan politics are still close enough to that kind of soldier-mindset discourse that I think they should be discouraged on Lesswrong.
I’m not in charge of whether or not my posts get promoted to the front page, but regardless, I’ve added the politics tag; feel free to use the feed UI to reduce the sorting score of those posts. In general I think LessWrong should be a place where people feel free to make neutral political projections, because they’re an important part of the territory.