SocraticGadfly: Independent Political Report tightening comment policy?

April 29, 2025

Independent Political Report tightening comment policy?

I dropped a comment on this piece about the Green Party opposing a new "Green International Monetary System":

Your comment is awaiting moderation.
Going beyond Walter, for the goldbugs? Gold has little intrinsic value, certainly not enough to justify its current pricing. (Silver is at least somewhat different.) Ergo, it’s kind of a “fiat” itself. (Historical sidebar: The Tang Dynasty invented paper money more than a millennium ago.)
In terms of today’s world, if you wanted non-fiat “specie,” wouldn’t it be either uranium or petroleum?

Note the top line. 

Occasionally their Wordpress hits a glitch and it won't post a comment, but I've not been on moderation before.

Then, having clicked another piece to read, on their weekly email, about the Travis County Libertarian Party adopting a resolution calling for Trump's impeachment? One person not named Nuña (though if this keeps him further away, amen) got a post deleted for a personal attack. But, another got an editorial note appended for talking about duopoly parties without being in third-party context.

That said, another said that, if Trump and Vance both got impeached, Democrats would be in charge. They didn't get an editorial note on their comment for talking about the duopoly, nor did they get one for their massive incorrectness. So, on the former of the two wrongs, Jordan or whomever is doing moderating, apply the editorial notes more evenly. On the latter, my callout of said person for their incorrectness was not a personal attack. We'll see if I'm posted.

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