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It’s another politics community! As part of the continuing fallout of pretty much everyone bashing [email protected] for being objectively horrible, I decided to make one. Let’s see how it goes.

General guidelines are, more or less: You can be a dick, but don’t argue in bad faith. Less strictness in terms of “only post what I want you to post” than some of the existing options. You can take any viewpoint you want to take, but you may have to defend it. No drive-by shouted opinions, no abusiveness, no obvious propaganda or trash sources.

Detailed rules follow. Let me know if you want to help moderate. I expect that traffic will be a little slow for the beginning but as work ramps up it would presumably be good to have others involved.

Any politics anywhere in the world. Inevitably it’ll be 99% US stuff, but that’s not a rule.

This community works differently to how most politics communities work. It has strict rules designed to facilitate productive discussion. You can be rude, to a point, but you can’t participate in bad faith:

• If you claim someone said something they didn’t say, that’s a temp ban.
• If you make a factual claim but then aren’t interested in backing it up, that’s a temp ban.
• If you’re asked one or two reasonable questions about what you said, and you’re still talking but you’re pretending the questions didn’t happen or rejecting the premise of answering them, that’s a temp ban.

The idea is to make the discussion productive. Let’s see how it works. Maybe this is a fool’s errand but IDK how any set of moderation could be worse than lemmy.world.

Other misc rules:

• Reliable sources only.
• Keep it productive please.
• Self posts for discussion are fine. This includes videos or photos. No meme posts or screenshots please.
• No personal insults.
• No racism / transphobia / related bigotry.