@Pat I agree that politics shouldn't get an automatic content warning. However, if the issue is likely to be inflammatory, I'll voluntarily put it behind a CW because it's a distraction for a science-focused instance like QOTO.

If I were on a more political or general instance, I might behave differently. But maybe not—I appreciate that my sympathetic nervous system is not constantly prodded by every post like it would be on other social networks.