Comment by dang

"Why I don't discuss politics with friends" implies that you don't discuss politics with friends. What you're saying here sounds quite different. It sounds like "I do discuss politics with friends, except when I encounter a signal that [etc.]".

On HN, your title should match what the article actually says ("Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait" -https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

I think if we change the title to "When I don't discuss politics with friends", that would be more accurate given what you've written here.

Edit: I looked at the article and didn't see anything that particularly mitigated the title, so I've put it back to "Why" above.