Moe, It is because I care about our nation that I deal in fact rather than partisanship.
The description of the shooting of Ashley Babett, an AF veteran, which I watched multiple times is not close to what you represented it to be. i also watched the Insurrection in real time and subsequent videos. Please do not try to instruct me about what I watched in real time. As a trained observer I am well aware of what I saw and gaslighting attempts will not change historical fact.

Reasonable people may arrive at different conclusions when considering facts. Fact however, are not mutable. Insurrection has a distinct, identifiable, consistent definition.

i know a bit about DC. I have been to the White House on several occasions. Even went bowling there ( entry through WH and then passage to EOB) I have been to the Capitol as well. And the Wall and all the rest.

i am hardly naive about politics even though I am neither elected official, staff nor lobbyist.

There are only two basic rules in politics :
1. Never trust anyone who wants the job
2. The honest politician is one who stays bought.

if you want your information filtered through partisan sources, that's up to you

i am not that naive

Well, I agree with you Moe.

After a post commemorating Jan 6 was summarily censored without explanation it seems Moderation has taken a turn in a different direction.

There are things that happen in our nation that, for better or worse whether past or present, are important for every Citizen. The Jan 6 Insurrection as part of a failed coup attempt certainly meets any standard in that area for a number of reasons.  Some may support it still, some may not and never have but as a historical moment it is of great importance.

None can change the past. Attempting to control the narrative about our history is not about that though. It as about controlling the future, as Orwell noted.

Regardless of opinions about the political outcomes of the last presidential election it was not "stolen" unless a plurality of the popular vote and Electoral College ballots mean "stealing". The events of Jan 6 did happen. Citizens could watch them in real time. i did along with man many others

Our nation is still divided in important ways. The events of Jan 6 changed us. Just as 9/11 did. There are some among our Citizens who think violence or another civil war are a solution. Certainly some among our self identified elites do. As one who has seen war up close and personal I can assure them they have no idea what they're talking about.

Granted some things are hard to consider openly in discussion. There are topics on which  Citizens may not find agreement. That's  the way things  go and why speech is specifically protected. It is to maintain the differences between persuasion and commanding.

On a privately held site owner imposed restrictions apply. In the case here censoring unpopular or difficult topics will merely reduce all ready declining input to recycling prior comments and recipes by former participants who have moved on both figuratively and literally.

So will trolling and people looking to start a fight.

  Damned, but it's getting lonely around here.     

Things are what they are, and won?t improve until the current communists running things are out of power

I hope we can hold out that long.