[Chris2048]

The idea that you have to share the same politics or perspectives as the mod is the problem, and promotes walled gardens and groupthink. The exact phenomenon of mods killing anything they disagree with is what killed reddit.

[tptacek]

You do not have to share the same politics, and, moreover, you don't even know what his politics are. How I know that is, I don't even know what his politics are, and I've talked to him a bunch and am a little unhealthily curious about them.

[Chris2048]

I can't speak to what you know, but I can speak to what sometimes reveals itself.

If it's the case that you don't have to share the same politics, then please explain why:

> if you're wholly uninterested in Dan's perspective on things, this place is probably not a great hang for you