Comment by schmuckonwheels
1 month ago
Because like most political threads, it will largely consist of people with a crayon-and-coloring-book understanding of geopolitics posting low-effort snipes and trading insults while contributing basically zero to productive discussion.
The most disgusting example of this in recent memory was the Scott Adams death thread, where complimentary comments were being aggressively flagged, and toxic vitriol was being upvoted. It made me finally realize how many joyless, seriously broken people lurk here.
Hey, I'm just joyless, not broken. Also that thread was full of people complimenting his political views, not just his work on Dilbert.
Don't try to sneak in political commentary under the guise of "complimentary comments" and you shouldn't have to deal with as much pushback from people with opposing viewpoints.
That or keep doing so and complaining about others free speech. I'm an anonymous poster on the internet, not a cop.