FYI, I vouched for tofu's dead reply to my question on whether he'd be inclined to trust anti-communists. I might not agree with his stance on this subject but I think he should be able to answer the question - which he did. From reading his comment history I get the idea that we agree on many points related to technology but disagree on many political subjects. I'd much rather have an honest discussion on all subjects out in the open, without labelling or epithet throwing than to suppress parts of that discussion while allowing other parts of it to thrive. The former might lead to some useless political discussions but those can simply be ignored - just collapse the thread [1]. The latter inevitably leads to some politics getting through while other politics is killed.

[1] this could even be an option in personal settings, something like 'Show dead [ ]', 'Show politics [ ]'). It would also make the job of policing the forum easier since anything political can simply be flagged as such by moderators or users, just like users can flag posts and replies.