Dear EnMasse: Fuck Off

Note: My response to the harpercons' voter suppression sleaze is going to occupy my work in the 3-d world. It is too important for the scatter-shot ranting and overall uselessness that is blogging.

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I left a message at my old discussion board EnMasse. Discussion boards had been a big part of my political development and I thought I should make a definitive statement about my exiting from the last one I was participating at. I said I was leaving because there didn't seem to be any point to staying at a place where the options were to 1) Agree with everyone that capitalism, patriarchy, war, ecocide, etc., were bad, and 2) Disagree on something, whereupon you would be attacked, insulted and misinterpreted by clueless dolts like "Agent Smith."

I suppose that if you want to INSIST on seeing things that aren't there, you could have seen my statement about my leaving and the reasons for it as being a cry for sympathy and support. But there's a novel concept going around. READ WHAT THE WRITER ACTUALLY SAYS!

Of course I was interested in whatever responses my statement received. So, yeah, I looked. I'm pretty much done with the board though, so I'm not replying there. Two posters have gotten it into their heads that I'm asking for the board to play sad violins over my leaving. And, given all the tragedies in the world today, perhaps I'm asking too much for something as trivial as my decision to withdraw from the board.

Jesus fucking Christ. This is why I decided to have my own blog. I can vent however I want without some fucking moderator popping in and asking everyone to tone it down. I can simply delete posts that insist on completely missing the point or attacking arguments that weren't made.

Perhaps it was a cry for sympathy. It wasn't, but maybe it could be seen that way. But you know what? It's a pretty serious charge to say that I was comparing my sufferings at the hands of "Agent Smith" and the asshole "RonB" to the sufferings of the Afghans at the hands of NATO imperialists. And before you unload on me for having done so, perhaps look to see whether I did, in fact, do so.

It also stands to reason that no one on EnMasse can now tell anyone about their weekend plans or any such trivialities, forever more, because what do their silly North American lives have to do with the Third World War between capitalism and humanity?

The whole point that I was trying to make in the last thread that I participated in and which I alluded to in my final post was that we have to learn to disagree like adults. We shouldn't turn on long-time comrades and insult them the same way we do right-wing trolls, just because we disagree. Unfortunately, neither the participants, nor the moderators were able to grasp this elementary point, rendering the whole project utterly futile.

Just to be clear. This post here is, like my post at EnMasse, NOT a cry for anyone to break out the sad violins over my agony. This is me taking advantage of my blog to vent about how EnMasse compunded error upon error with regards to my statements. If you've read this far, you obviously had some time to kill. Well, you killed it. And it is what it is.