Honestly did not intend for this to be confrontational, but I just lost a longtime mutual/e-friend over it, so I guess I miscalculated. I thought I was being kind of playfully dickish.
I deleted it, because it is not my intention or desire to piss off friends.
Two things, though:
1) My point stands. I think it’s healthy and good to be critical of our leaders. And that it’s unhealthy to stifle that.
Two things, though:
1) My point stands. I think it’s healthy and good to be critical of our leaders. And that it’s unhealthy to stifle that.
2) I have no intention of holding back on calling out what I perceive as bullshit when I see it. I’m thrilled to have made so many friends through this website, but it’s initial purpose was to vent frustrations in a way that would not damage my familial ties.
And I genuinely do value the friendships I’ve made here. There’s a whole bunch of you I’d love to meet IRL. So, it would be a lie to posture and say it doesn’t bother me when I lose a friend here because of how I expressed myself.
But it’s happened a bunch of times, and I’m sure it will happen a bunch more. It’s in the DNA of this website.