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Comment author: TimS 03 October 2012 08:12:30PM *  7 points [-]

There is a strong community norm against talking about politics, particularly political electioneering (community organizer v. rich business executive, etc).

It's not so much that we aren't interested in political theory as that we have observed that People go funny in the head when talking about politics.