"I suggest"

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Which in the language of filialucis means: I am going to defriend and ban you without giving you any opportunity to answer my rant, but pretending to act ladylike all the same. Well, mademoiselle, "I suggest" that you learn that if you publish outrageously and obviously false and partisan accounts of the country I live in, you be not surprised if someone tells you that they are obviously false and partisan, nor weave ridiculous excuses to try and make them less ridiculous, partisan and false. "Daughter of the light" indeed!

EDITED IN: I will never stop saying how much I hate the party spirit. Of fifty friends I lost, I would estimate that forty-five have got angry at me because I had twitched the horns of some sacred cow or other. And the thing I hate the most about this is that people who will maybe have spent a lot of time giving me public praise that, once upon a time, could not be recanted without dishonour - now, all of a sudden, and wholly without shame, discover all sorts of intellectual and moral deficiencies in the very person they had found so admirable. And because their damned party allegiance justifies them, they do not even find themselves troubled at recanting and reversing the praise they had given without the least encouragement from me. The party spirit either makes people creeps or justifies their inborn creepiness.

EDITED IN AGAIN: And in the end, when the anger has boiled down, it is merely sad. The world is full of people to whom I would so much wish to say - it is a pity that you should have so changed your mind about me, when I, for my part, did not change mine about you at all. That you should have decided to be my enemy when, if I had the choice, I would still be your friend.

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[expectare.livejournal.com]

if you are online you should sign into im!

[fishlivejournal.livejournal.com]

When you defriended me without warning, that left your most recent visible entry a similar complaint about how rude it was to defriend without explanation.

If it hadn't been for the complaint about rudeness, I wouldn't have minded; in fact with my LJ at that point being mostly concerned about the upcoming local election, I assumed that people would defriend simply to avoid chatter about a subject of no interest to them. But your violation of your own rules of courtesy rankles.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I apologize. I do not now remember what that was about, but that sort of thing happens when something strikes me as the sort of thing that would lead straight to a major row and for some reason I do not want to have one. It is rather like sneaking away, and I should not do it.

[fishlivejournal.livejournal.com]

Thank you: both for the apology and for preventing an unnecessary argument. [smiles] Walking away from a fight isn't sneaking. If you had been sneaking, you wouldn't admit to your reasons now.