In my view tipping is the first step towards corruption. It makes it acceptable to pay a little bit extra to get a benefit.

Fuck that shit. Tipping is a horrible practice that should be illegal IMHO.

Not related to the topic at hand, just a heartfelt thank you for the mostly thankless job of moderating a fairly active community. This goes out to all in the moderating team.

Against a ban for reasons already stated. I’m all for banning outright far right propaganda like Breitbart and similar sites, but politico is nowhere near that.

Let’s keep the fediverse diverse with opinion and argue on merit.

Is it me? Am I the offending user?

I don’t think there’s enough content on lemmy yet to ban news outlets based on ideological purity of the owners, and its doubt there will ever be.

I think it’s a good enough source and should not be banned.