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[fpb]

I wish I could stop the habit of answering back to idiotic and/or provocative comments.

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Of all Obama supporters I have met so far, only two have proved not to leave a nasty taste in the mouth. Honesty and decency in that crowd come a very poor second to a fierce greed to prevail.

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[redcoast.livejournal.com]

So, like, do I make your skin crawl?

I have to stop myself from arguing in the comments. I could do it, but I find it only makes me more anxious, never changes the other person's perspective. There's a chance I'm just a bad debater, of course. I find it hard to think clearly when I'm upset and I upset easily.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

As I said elsewhere, I should have mentioned that I exclude some of my friends. By no means all - the complete lack of any critical spirit from people who are old enough and clever enough to know better, who ought to remember Carter in 1976, and Blair in 1997, and the end of disliked governments, and messianic hopes punctually punctured and turned to dust. I was also horrified by how many people seemed to think that Proposition 8 was an assault on anyone's freedom. Someone your age can be excused for faddish thinking, but do people really grow old while still keeping their feet firmly within all the muddiest and dimmest fads promoted by modern media? Anyway, the question is rather whether I make your skin crawl; whether my weary disgust with yet another messiah who will once again betray and ruin his own supporters really seems to you like trolling or like a betrayal.

[un-crayon-rouge.livejournal.com]

"punctually punctured"

I love that.

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

It's never trolling to express your own opinions in your journal, though I will admit you have a way of phrasing your opinions that seems to tick people off!