re: #156 Anymouse 🌹🎃

I logged in briefly before I go to bed. Denver is a long ways from here.

Okay, I will accept (since a bunch of people upvoted your comment) that I am a “purity pony” for posting snarky comments or informative tweets from Twitterati.

I see how others might think I am hypocritical for posting comments from other people, even though I have no account myself, and though I have resisted my own state government’s demand that as my village’s Public information Officer I refuse to open a Twitter or Facebook account.

I concede. I am a hypocrite.

Therefore, since I do not wish to be a hypocrite (and certainly not a “purity pony,” the definition of which seems to be ‘something I don’t like’), I will no longer look at people who post informative things there and especially not repost them here.

I despise hypocrisy, and if I am being called out as a hypocrite, I need to examine that and determine if that is true or if it is tone-policing.

I still ain’t using Uber. I don’t care for exploiting workers.

I’m off to Denver in the morning to have my car serviced after it was pummeled near to death by softball-size hail.

As such, I will be missing from here. I also need to take a break from political commentary here for a while. I don’t know whether that will be a few days or a few months, but the open despite for my position about Twitter and Uber makes me feel as though I am not welcome here.

I will still read, as this is an important place to learn things I cannot learn from my completely conservative controlled local media. I presume the commentary from a purity pony isn’t necessary though.

G’night y’all.

Anymouse, I hope you’re reading this.
The counter-argument you presented last night appears to be that participating in ‘evil’ is okay if you don’t actually pay for it. That’s a cheapskate fundie mooching somebody else’s Playboys while he complains about the sinful subscribers. As a moral position, it seemed a bit thin.

Re-posting tweets when you don’t have a Twitter account isn’t hypocritical. But yes, polishing your halo for not having one does sound mote and beamish from here.

That said, criticism of a particular behavior is not a blanket condemnation of a person. It does not mean you are unwelcome. I do not dislike you. I do not think that your contributions to this community are without value. It is difficult to convey tone in writing, so please accept that this is not being typed in an angry way. There are subjects where I have found your comments and behavior to other Lizards to be hurtful or infuriating. This is not one of them, this was just irritating at a point where my patience was running thin.

I will apologize in turn. I should refrain from commenting when I’m already edgy from events IRL and the constant onslaught of appalling news that has dominated this infrastructure week. I should not have echoed the phrase ‘purity pony’ since it has a weight of connotation that is out of proportion to the issue at hand.

Truly, without any sarcasm intended, I wish you a safe journey to Denver. Maybe we can connect one of these visits — conversations may be easier to conduct face-to-face than it is in writing, late at night. Tone of voice would be clearer at any rate.