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I have something I would like to say.
Nov. 4th, 2004 07:11 pmI am pleased with the outcome of the United States presidential election.
Some of you were already aware of this. Some of you may have guessed. Some of you may be extremely surprised.
Now, then.
( Several things this means. )
If you wish to defriend me over this post, I admit I may be disappointed, but I will not fight with you over it or dwell on it overmuch.
If you believe my moral stances to be wrong or my preferred approaches to a shared goal to be ineffective, this is only to be expected in some cases.
If you believe I am evil and a threat to the future of the country or humanity, I suppose I shan't be too surprised there either.
If you would like to flame me, I shall ignore you.
If you would like to engage in reasoned discussion on these issues, please find someone else and/or wait a while. I appreciate the attitude and desire, truly, and I praise you for wishing to be productive. Unfortunately, I burned myself out on discussing politics myself previously, to the point that even this post is making me tired. I don't really like debates on the subject, even though I know they are important. So while I'm leaving comments enabled, and obviously you are free and welcome to post rebuttals or reactions here or wherever else you have access, I will admit up front that I'm probably not going to answer or argue with you any time soon.
In short, I'm afraid this has been a monologue. This is probably not so productive as reasoned discussion, but after the other posts I have seen today, I thought I would go ahead and express myself once, and leave it at that. It's probably less unproductive, at least for me, than engaging in full-on online debate, as I have other things I have to get done or would rather do.
Some of you were already aware of this. Some of you may have guessed. Some of you may be extremely surprised.
Now, then.
( Several things this means. )If you wish to defriend me over this post, I admit I may be disappointed, but I will not fight with you over it or dwell on it overmuch.
If you believe my moral stances to be wrong or my preferred approaches to a shared goal to be ineffective, this is only to be expected in some cases.
If you believe I am evil and a threat to the future of the country or humanity, I suppose I shan't be too surprised there either.
If you would like to flame me, I shall ignore you.
If you would like to engage in reasoned discussion on these issues, please find someone else and/or wait a while. I appreciate the attitude and desire, truly, and I praise you for wishing to be productive. Unfortunately, I burned myself out on discussing politics myself previously, to the point that even this post is making me tired. I don't really like debates on the subject, even though I know they are important. So while I'm leaving comments enabled, and obviously you are free and welcome to post rebuttals or reactions here or wherever else you have access, I will admit up front that I'm probably not going to answer or argue with you any time soon.
In short, I'm afraid this has been a monologue. This is probably not so productive as reasoned discussion, but after the other posts I have seen today, I thought I would go ahead and express myself once, and leave it at that. It's probably less unproductive, at least for me, than engaging in full-on online debate, as I have other things I have to get done or would rather do.
