Here's the problem.
Otherwise good people get so heated in these discussions that they consistently ignore the rules even when i give them multiple warnings. If i was strict with these rules, i'd be ending up banning a lot of people who were just having a bad week or whatever.
So instead we only intervene w/the worst of the worst and dump things when they get too spicy after, as usual, everyone ignores my cues.
I'd like to ban political discussions entirely and make a hard line in the sand, literally all they do is attract trolls, but there is a lot of intersection w/politics and EVs that makes things not so clear cut, so there has to be room for nuance.