@allan Yep. Even more annoying is the way the mods treat the original non-US oriented comment as the derail instead of the folks who immediately jump in hyperventilating about the friend of a cousin of the Trump campaign manager's niece who partied with a Russian oligarch's secretary's godchild at spring break 10 years ago and once Trump's impeached the shitty trade policies or whatever I'm talking about that have been in place for decades will surely evaporate.

@allan Anyway I have some ranty feelings about metafilter that are not responsible or wise to express on metafilter. Thank you for listening.

@susannah yeah, I don't envy being a mod, I think they're being overzealous but then again I'm not the one trying to contain bushfires of US politics.

This has always been a low-key issue on the english speaking internet, US politics being the only politics, but it feels like now it just sucks all the oxygen out of the room and you can't even acknowledge that there is a world outside America anymore.