Ooops, I just lost a friend on Facebook. He unfriended me!
He posted some crap about the proposed UN Small Arms Treaty. I called him out on it.
He called me a sheep willing to give up my freedoms.
I then reminded him that he was the one who posted that Michelle Obama had her law license revoked and I had proved him wrong.
SNAP!
The thread is gone and he unfriended me!
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Well put 
question. I see you don't and you fight for the truth. 
And he posted a quote: "Anyone who gives up freedom for security deserves to lose both."
Asked me who said it.
Of course I knew it was Benjamin Franklin and I also knew he got the quote wrong.
I told him it was Benjamin Franklin, but the real quote is this:
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
Goodbye friend!
Recounted here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=777011
He insisted on spewing any old bitter crap and venom and anger and just blind viciousness - and I finally had enough. But he beat me to it and unfriended me first, before I could unfriend him.
I was patient. At first I let him vent. But he kept doing it and kept doing it and it just kept getting more and more negative and contrarian - all under the category of - "oh they're BOTH fucked, oh they're ALL bad, everybody's shitty blah-blah-blah..."
I posted a general notice (paraphrasing) - ATTENTION: We're in campaign season now. I post things here that I believe in, and I confine them to MY page. Any other posts I find that are disagreeable or go against my views will not be appreciated or tolerated, and if they're bad enough, I will delete them. I don't go posting my views on anyone else's page. I keep them on MY page. This is MY page. I will allow what I want on MY page. If you disagree or don't like it, rip me a new one on YOUR page. And I won't interfere. But MY page is MY page and I will only have posted on MY page what I wish to have posted on MY page.
And whaddya know, FIRST thing up there after this was him, complaining that "you liberals always carry on about the First Amendment and then you have a fit when somebody else posts something different."
Well, FINE, my friend. But I was very clear at the outset. If I don't like it, it WILL NOT last long on my page. Because it's MY page. And I determine what's on MY page.
And he just hated that. Wanted the privilege of poking holes in EVERYTHING I said, EVERY point I made, EVERY post I posted. EVERY view I expressed. Always found something wrong with it, always found fault with it, always with the cynicism and bitterness. I asked him personally several times to stop. He refused. "You pop up, I pop off." I issued the general alert a second time, too. He just refused to play ball. So I started deleting his posts. He HATED that and really let me have it. I deleted those as well. Life's just too short. Then, finally, there was this post that excoriated me yet again for hypocrisy regarding the First Amendment, and his parting words were: Enjoy Siberia."
So I spent a couple of moments insulted and upset, and then I realized that his multiple-posted harangues were going to be permanently missing. And that he actually did me a favor! Now, I post stuff and nobody shows up to be snarky and poke holes in my statements or links, or complain or criticize or insult me, or find fault with me or what I said, or pick my posts apart - in a broad and very angry spectrum of ways. Life's too short! I just don't need it! Even from someone I was friends with for more than 40 years and who I supported and stood by when he was going through all kinds of mess with his gay soon-to-be-ex-lover. And he's a FORMER friend now. So be it.
And finally, I thought - "okay, my friend. You go pout and condemn me and post how awful and hypocritical I am - on YOUR OWN page all you want. And you have fun with your 22 friends. I will enjoy Siberia - with my 2780-some-odd friends. On MY page."
I apologize. It brought out the bitch in me, although I tried very hard to keep that out of my posts and try to be as objective as possible, and never hostile like he was. Btw - he told me to go post on that stupid fucking Democratic Underground where they all had their heads up their asses if I didn't want people taking issue with my posts on Facebook.
So I'm doing THAT, TOO!!!!!!!
Don't let it get you down. The problems are far more theirs than yours.
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