@susannah Yeah, I definitely appreciate the politics cws. I'll probably read them, but it's nice that they stay tidily behind a cw if I'm not up for it.

@susannah they are good, IMO. Not everyone wants to read unfiltered US pol all day, and hiding it behind a warning is a courtesy.

@susannah I also CW stuff on electoral politics and violent current events, but not political theory or positive stories about building counter-institutions.

@susannah I agree, it's good etiquette.

@susannah I take the view that putting CWs on political content simply allows people to become wilfully ignorant. I've been discomfited by seeing political stuff hit my stream, sure.. but if I'm uncomfortable to be reminded of poverty, or violence, or disenfranchisement.. then it's probably a good thing that it wasn't hidden behind something I could easily ignore due to political fatigue. I know, I'll get muted by a lot of people for not CWing _everything_. But I'll pay that price.

@susannah From an entirely different POV, I also find the level of CW granularity on Mastodon to be waaay to high, to the degree that I'm annoyed and sometimes ignore people's work simply because I'm sick of clicking through CWs like "Thinking about pens" or "Lol meta". I prefer microstatus to be quick and easy to digest, not to have to individually consent to every thought-interaction. :)

@susannah I try to, although sometimes I can't tell what is politics. I mean, in a way, isn't most of our difficulties due to one policy or another? If I have to wonder what CW I really ought to use, I use the CW more or less like a headline.