I think all of our regulars are smart enough to realize this, but I'll remind everyone anyways...

This conference is not restricted from web crawlers, anything posted here is readily searchable online.  There has already been a move to shift political discussions to paid memberships out of General Discussion because, quite frankly, some members were posting things that could get this site shut down and get them visited by law enforcement.  There are entities actively looking to suppress any pro-freedom, pro-guns activists, be careful who you are talking with.  We know this site has various levels of law enforcement watching it, including with paid memberships, so just because someone is a member here does not automatically make them trustworthy.  Remember AROCK, may all fucks be upon him as he roasts in Hell, he wasn't the first and won't be the last scumbag on this site (and for those who didn't see the news, he committed a murder-suicide early last month, killing a woman who was apparently quite amazing but who made the mistake of letting him rent a room from her, not knowing what a reprehensible individual he was).  That goes for ANY social media, btw, even that established by trustworthy members, because unless you host the entire thing on your own hardware, with encrypted clients, and a way to restrict a compromised client from accessing the entire site, it's vulnerable to penetration by hostile agents.  There's a reason I don't trust network connected locks in my home, and physically disconnect my webcam and any microphones when not on a conference call.

I'll second this - keep your passion, but use your head.

No.  It means be careful about how you post them, the overall rules haven't changed - no discussions of illegal actions.  Protesting is fine - advocating breaking into government buildings, tarring and feathering politicians, burning down certain social media companies, etc... is not.  Some people were unfortunately allowing their emotions to rule in GD and were discussing illegal actions in response to their belief that this past election was fraudulent.  The Left is on the warpath, try to avoid giving them unnecessary ammunition.  One reason to move political discussions out of GD was so they couldn't be indexed as easily by Google and others, eventually Politics will require an account but not a paid membership, once Goatboy has been able to code it and things have settled down slightly.  He's also working on coding changes to allow changing usernames and deleting individual posting histories, as well as being prepared to move to new hosting solutions since Amazon is fully cooperating in shutting down conservative sites that give them an excuse to do so, while we've seen them leave Left-leaning sites and even insurgent groups alone.

Even if it's not a set up by those organizing it, the opposition is known for sending agitators in to generate violence so they can tar the entire group as violent, the DNC has never denied the authenticity of the emails where it was shown they were doing that to Trump campaign rallies.