Actually infuriating things are so far outside of the purpose of this community. When I want to read about the terrible things happening in the world, I go read about them. When I’m trying to take a break and refresh my mind, it is aggravating that I’m still forced to view these issues in my fun communities.
If we aren’t going to outright forbid it, could we maybe at least enforce a tag, something like [RI] for really infuriating stuff so that it could be more easily filtered out?
I think you’re looking at this through a very US lens. Consider the following fact, The Irish Embassy in Ottawa, Canada is one block away from O’Connor street. It’s mildly infuriating and it’s political. This would not be allowed if there was a no politics rule. The issue isn’t politics in posts, the issue is that recently there have been a lot of very infuriating posts that also happen to be political.