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We have several active members who are planning to vote Biden, and we've had at least two posts about it. I've often encouraged users to make a post about why they're voting for Biden, but they've almost always declined, which tells me they may have just intended to argue in the comments. As long as these posts don't defend the current system and are sensitive to the feelings of people who have lost loved ones to Biden's policies and actions, this has always been allowed and even welcomed.
It's a community for leftists though, so it should come from a leftist perspective. Managing a community like this is hard, because it by definition will exclude groups hostile to basic leftist theory, such as fascists, conservatives, and liberals. That's really the intent of the community -- I saw a need for a space where we're not constantly put on the defensive.
I blocked the community mostly because I didn't like the overly aggressive responses and the lack of any discussion around alternatives etc. but if things have changed since I blocked (which was shortly after it's inception) then that's good.
I feel like I'm mostly responsible for that, and I'm making an effort not to be so rude and aggressive.