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there are some pretty deep political divisions amongst folk in the community.
it is obvious from past experience that we can talk across them or use them to grind discussions to a halt both pretty effectively and the second more often than the first.
i like to think myself pretty open, even if sometimes in the way an anthropologist is open about an "object" of study...curious wondering how x could possibly think as x does.
and mostly i think that's true.
but there are situations in which that closes down, interactions in which that stops. and because i like to think i'm pretty open, i tend to overlook or downplay those situations.
in the past few days i allowed my impatience with ace to get the better of me and allowed myself to be complicit in grinding two threads into powder.
the oil spill thread is still developing as the grim information about that grim disaster keeps coming and so there's momentum.
this thread is pretty much a corpse and like alot of corpse-threads has turned away from whatever points of discussion there may have been to pissiness.
we're small these days and there's no need to indulge heading down well-worn pathways to personal attack and vitriol. we're small these days and it's better to use that as a reason to be more open, not less.
so my apologies to the community for my part in allowing this to happen.
it bees like that sometimes though.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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