Temporary un-friendings
Sep. 3rd, 2004 01:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
furtechSome posts have gotten out of hand. I respect one's right to do whatever they wish in their own journal, but this isn't something I need to see. I consider myself an informed voter and will vote in this election (as I have in every election since I was eligible). I will go through the list again post-November and re-add folks, but I don't wish to see friends going at each other's throats over this.
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Date: 2004-09-03 01:29 pm (UTC)No. What I don't care to see is someone screaming about their political stance, while others either rally to their stance, or others oppose them for it. And then people forget what it means to be civil, respectful and tolerant, and tear one another apart. It's ridiculous. And anyone who doesn't believe so is just being in denial of what I call unruly behavior. You can post your political rants in your own LJ, it's your own business- and you can scream out that your way is right- and that everyone else is wrong- but in the long run- is it worth the cost? Is it worth hurting, offending, and even possibly losing friends over 2 old men and whether or not their politics sit right with you?
I tend to keep my LJ politics-free, simply because I know there are people of all walks of politics on my LJ and I don't want mud-slinging fights, which is all that political rants tend to boil down to. Besides, I have other things in my daily life and relationships that I need to focus more on. However, by being vocally passive and quiet on politics, I'm suddenly being labeled as someone who doesn't care about the elections or the state of our country. Bullshit.
I'm registered, and in November, I *WILL* go to the polls and cast my vote. And I have to shake my head at the people who say, "Go vote for the lesser of 2 evils!" No. I've done my research, I've thought ahead of which candidate best suits my views and my hopes for America, and I will vote for THEM. Regardelss if they are the candidate of my registered party, or the opposite. I don't blindly vote for my own party's candidate, or vote for "the lesser of two evils". When it comes down to the actual voting month- I take it seriously, and react accordingly. That's better than the millions of bandwagon voters, or the people who vote for one candidate simply because "he's not Bush" and etc.
Anyway- I agree with you on the friend's filter thing. The reason I don't like reading overly-political friends LJs is not because of their opinion, but because people have long-since left behind the intelligent, civil way of debating politics.
It's all about hate now.
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Date: 2004-09-03 02:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-04 01:03 am (UTC)LJ and good manners
Date: 2004-09-03 05:16 pm (UTC)The other annoyance sort of along the same lines is when a third party butts into a comment I leave the owner of a journal. WTF? THe comment wasn't for the 3 rd party, it was for the journal owner. The conversation is beween him and I. It's one reason any real content of my journal is friends only. I can't trust the general public to have any common sense and manners!
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Date: 2004-09-03 05:40 pm (UTC)LJ's first election year
Date: 2004-09-03 07:57 pm (UTC)I'd suggest just making a no-politics filtered friends list and just read that for the next couple of months. I do that when people either act up or just plain get boring for awhile. I have never added back someone I unfriended as far as I can remember.
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Date: 2004-09-03 11:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-04 01:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-04 09:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-04 04:07 am (UTC)*sigh*