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mcroftIt may be that you took stock of your friends list and decided that I didn't add anything to your day. That's cool. Most of my entries lately have been collected twitter translations.
It may be that you're planning to badmouth my wife for not letting you turn several parallel threads in one post on her LJ into your soapbox for your radical political opinions and decided that it would be unkind to show them to me and po-faced to make a custom friends group that excludes me. Points for straight up-ness and planning ahead, I suppose, balanced out by many points off for hot-headedness.
It may be that you think I'm likely to unfriend you because you unfriended her and you chose to accelerate the process. A self-fulfilling prophesy, but not out of the question. I generally find that people who assume that I'm an extension of my wife's decisions are prone to other failures in reasoning.
It may be that you found that your brilliant political analysis is wasted on anyone with such poor judgement as to actually marry my wife. I'm not sure I can disagree. I've read your political posts and they do seem to be wasted on me.
In any case, I wish you well, and I hope you work out your quickdraw temper issues before they become a liability to your personal or professional life. I'll do my best to cope with not being on your friends list.
TTFN,
Michael
It may be that you're planning to badmouth my wife for not letting you turn several parallel threads in one post on her LJ into your soapbox for your radical political opinions and decided that it would be unkind to show them to me and po-faced to make a custom friends group that excludes me. Points for straight up-ness and planning ahead, I suppose, balanced out by many points off for hot-headedness.
It may be that you think I'm likely to unfriend you because you unfriended her and you chose to accelerate the process. A self-fulfilling prophesy, but not out of the question. I generally find that people who assume that I'm an extension of my wife's decisions are prone to other failures in reasoning.
It may be that you found that your brilliant political analysis is wasted on anyone with such poor judgement as to actually marry my wife. I'm not sure I can disagree. I've read your political posts and they do seem to be wasted on me.
In any case, I wish you well, and I hope you work out your quickdraw temper issues before they become a liability to your personal or professional life. I'll do my best to cope with not being on your friends list.
TTFN,
Michael
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Date: 2008-01-11 04:36 pm (UTC)I'm fine with defending my opinions-- it is being asked not to express them in the name of politeness that sends me through the roof. I'll Godwin this one for everyone else... if someone stands up in a journal saying how Hitler is such a nice man, a vegetarian who loves dogs and children, I'll call a spade a spade in no uncertain terms... especially when they don't know what they're saying. (I don't care if the other guy is Stalin.)
We're in agreement that 'perfect should not be the enemy of the good,' which is how I'd heard it... but there is still such a thing as "not damn near good enough"-- and the Democratic Party supporting an ongoing war which is killing high six figures and displacing low seven figures of people is not good enough, not when they were elected with a mandate to Do Something. Opposing impeachment when the President has Nixonian approval ratings... not good enough. Thirty years of political retreat have got us where we are today, by moving the goalpost for the Democratic Party. There are a few good eggs... who will not receive their party's nomination or support.
I've outright said I'll hold my nose and pull the lever if I have to, but these are the f-ing primaries. The candidates won't -get- any further "left" than this, especially those who are consciously aiming for the "center."
Should there have been any confusion (not the first comparison to right libertarians of me I've seen), it is inapt. I'm throwing (polemical) bombs from the Left, not the Right.