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I signed in and got quite the giggle as an extremely positive post I made in The Stream had a thumbs down.👎

The first thing that came to mind was this modern classic, ***Once you hate someone, everything they do is offensive. "Look at this bitch eating those crackers like she owns the place."*** 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

I’m not an asshole. There are plenty of people here who may have assumed so but ended up getting along quite well with me when they approached me with common courtesy that should be given to anyone – that kind of respect is not based on “honor“ but the tact of human decency. I don’t think I’m better than anyone else here on this site. But if you just start popping off and being a royal fucknut - you can’t expect I’ll be excited to have an exchange with you. I’ve had people write all kinds of crazy crap about me in their journals, then a week later come to me in need of help and I will absolutely help them. I don’t hold what they said about me against them because I view a lot of this crap as immaturity. It’s really childish to throw a tantrum in your journal about the rules of this place.

There has hardly ever been a situation here of dispute where both sides of the fence didn’t share culpability. People throw jabs from either direction and then when one feels the other has crossed a line farther than they anticipated they come to ask for help from the administration. This is why we don’t get involved in personal disputes. There’s rarely a completely innocent party.

If I were to use admin tools all willy-nilly and on my own program – I would be just as vulnerable to Cancer’s judgment as anyone else here. 20+ years of respecting his platform has earned some trust… So he would be really disappointed in me, but he wouldn’t have a problem with continuing to place value on his own creation and stripe me of any further ability to act in his stead. I do care about this place and his trust - I would feel shame, deflation, and mortification if he was disillusioned with me – my greatest human vulnerability is the thought of a person I hold in high regard viewing me in such a way. It has nothing to do with ego. I would never intentionally risk a thing that is valuable to me. If it seems like I have in any aspect of my life, the view from your angle is probably missing a lot of context.

I am eating crackers over here – but I don’t think I own the place.

That being said – I accidentally gave my own post in The Stream a thumbs up. 🫤 I can’t remove it, so it is one “like“ ahead of its reality.

War is Over! If you want it. Happy Christmas. -John & Yoko