Okay. So pretty much, listen to what Ang had to say (about the only person you can control = yourself), or don't. If you are in any way to blame, then you be the one to change - and then let the other folks who are to blame be responsible for their own actions. If you take yourself out of the problem, then it'll all be on them (whoever they might be.)
except no one around here calls them on it! except me! so what you're saying I have to do is just shut up and never say anything. I can't express my opinion about anything, because as soon as I do, I have to back down and shut up, because I'm blamed for causing trouble for expressing my opinion!
So, the people doing this, can silence opposing opinion just by claiming people are causing trouble! Unless other people are held accountable for doing this, there is no point in expressing differing opinions! Is that what we want here? the people that complain the loudest about opposing viewpoints get their way.
It's working so far...
hal -
It seems to me that you are one doing a lot of loud complaining. Are you getting your way? Just asking.
I do not know how to suggest this because I really do not want to offend you, but I do think you need help with dealing with other people, you seem to have a persecution complex, and I do not mean that as an insult. You simply cannot expect to get on with life dealing with other people the way that you seem to think that you should or can or might be able to do currently. I am not out to dismiss you or call you a troublemaker or anything of the sort, but I do find that you simply cannot see anyone's side on things except for your own, and so many others have tried to point this out, it IS getting tiresome.
You are indeed nearly an army of one fighting a battle that nobody else sees. How much more bluntly do people need to state it? No one here is trying to ban you, is that what you are after? No one here is trying to dismiss you, is that what you are after? No one here is trying to blame you for stuff, is that what you are after? Fer crying out loud, most of us cannot even figure out what it is that you DO want, except to be some sort of angst ridden pity figure. Well, you have my pity, but there is not much that you can do with that, and I mean that sincerely. You need to take what you want and go with it yourself, nobody else here can do it for you.
I also will give you my hope that you can figure out what it is that you exactly want and achieve it, and if you want support from people here, you will find that it is also freely and sincerely given. You need to decide what it is that you want, and if you want to be a martyr for some cause that only exists in your head, then fine, I think you achieved that already.