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I for one am happy you spoke out, tasineah. I've been around long enough to have seen this "familial bickering" in progress, but I've never really become a part of it, which allows me to see it in a objective manner I suppose.
Something else I've seen now and again is it really takes a strong will to "get in" with this crowd. I mean, you really either need some strong opinions, or to be pretty fuckin' weird to get noticed and incorporated into the discussion. I've never been in the thick of things here, mostly because there's so much history between everyone else. I've been mostly content to observe and comment wherever I feel appropriate-that is, mostly the new threads where I feel I can say something new without beating a dead horse.
I guess all I'm saying is that I see a lot of snarky comments toward each other, and they look a lot like what siblings say to each other: "No you!" And when someone comes in that has something new and interesting to say, it's either: That's been done and said before, or it devolves into this pseudo-debate that pretty much forgets the OP, and feels like a recurring argument between family members.
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