I don't like loCA, I don't communicate with her, she is not my friend, and yes I readily acknowledge having been drawn into the ongoing loCAdrama which never ended because someone was always stirring it back up - months and months and months before a suspension was ever suggested.
LJ makes threats to seek legal advice and/or take legal action in response to Andrew D's accusations that he's a criminal in his professional life, but can't comprehend my outrage when he makes outrageous statements (entirely misunderstanding Montana law) asserting that I'm nearly incompetent, despite serving as the highest law enforcement officer in my jurisdiction?
It must be happening in the Plan B Zone.
LJ isn't worthy of the time it would take to make him my enemy, @w. He's not intelligent or mature enough for his opinions to matter that much to me. Sorry to see you choose this opportunity to return, and with such opinions. Clearly I vastly overestimated you.
Yes, Meade, after posting here for all but three months of the place's existence and supporting it financially, I shouldn't have the right to vote. Oh, unless I'd come back gunning for loCA. Then it would be fine and the question would not have been raised. I'd have been welcomed back with open arms & huzzahs if I'd but agreed with the right folks.
Those other four 'no' voters probably shouldn't have the right to vote, either.
I post in response to NPR, New Yorker and other stories on Facebook occasionally. One time a few months back some guy didn't like my comment, took a wee bit of info available from my public 'about' section, tracked down my asserted 'deputy county attorney' info, went to the website for my old office & not seeing me there (site was still under construction), called my old supervisor from his home in NJ (sorry, Sue, that's where he was from) and 'reported' me, falsely, for fraudulently representing myself as a law enforcement officer.
Did I FREAK OUT? Have a cow, man? Call the coppers? File a lawsuit? Nope. My boss and I nearly pissed ourselves laughing about it.
A person who largely behaves in a manner that brings no shame upon them has no reason to freak out. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be able to expect respect and courtesy from the members of their community.
I stand by what I said; this place is very often toxic and there must always, it seems, be a target of the hour. I'm now and for many months have been participating in a half dozen other fora where no, this kind of dynamic is NOT the norm.
Again, I'm happy to rejoin the likes of the many who have walked away from this community, whether here or CSB, and not returned. I won't even bother reading anymore - I hadn't in weeks, too busy IRL, but when I happened to stop by and see what was going on this week I made the mistake of believing I could express an opinion, pointing out that there is a precedent for fucking with folks IRL and it's from the IN crowd, without immediate piling on. Foolish of me, I now admit.
Say all kinds of nasty shit about me. Forget, in the space of a few posts you don't agree with, years of calling me friend and accepting my generosity. Pile it on. I can - and have been, happily - do far better with my time than to waste it here.
I will never be back; you have my solemn oath. This short visit made me realize I don't miss it at all.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
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