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TorchTheWitch

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42. telling you to mind your own business

Sat May 3, 2014, 08:11 PM

May 2014

somehow makes me right wing. See, this is exactly your problem. Absolutely EVERYTHING to you is reduced to a political "side" and your labeling of people whether deserving or not based on that.

It's not any of your business who your friends chose to associate with or why. Your wanting to change who they associate with makes you guilty of trying to control their lives and based on YOUR criteria of what makes an acceptable friend and crazily enough for something as asinine as what party they prefer. You are no friend to these people by trying to control who they chose to be friends with or why. If you are so incensed over something to stupid then get other friends who you think will suit you better and stop trying to control these friends that mean so little to you that you want to control who they chose to be friends with and you haven't even bothered to know yourself.

The problem here is YOU. YOUR need to reduce everyone and everything to a label based purely on politics and going so far as to try to control who your friends associate with - whom you don't even know - based on your own political label criteria.

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I'm incensed [View all] lillypaddle May 2014 OP

Stop trying to control who people are friends with. SMC22307 May 2014 #1

You're a better person than I am lillypaddle May 2014 #3

Well, I wouldn't go that far. SMC22307 May 2014 #10

Lighten up JJChambers May 2014 #19

You can't control what other people do, you can only control your own response to it. scarletwoman May 2014 #2

ouch lillypaddle May 2014 #4

I assume you can post anything you want on FB. So, set the example of what you think is important. scarletwoman May 2014 #5

Thanks lillypaddle May 2014 #6

Dear lilypaddle, I admire you, too. scarletwoman May 2014 #9

Are you mad about how they have friends "on the right," or how they don't post anything? Brickbat May 2014 #7

Honestly, I don't know lillypaddle May 2014 #16

I have never let politics 840high May 2014 #8

I Facebook with a lot of family Niceguy1 May 2014 #11

It's actually polite. The general rule is to not talk about religion and politics in mixed company. Jesus Malverde May 2014 #12

A rightwing friend of mine saved me from a suicide attempt. NuclearDem May 2014 #13

I am glad there was someone there ... when you needed someone most etherealtruth May 2014 #15

This has never become a problem for me because I'm not a Facebook user. Jenoch May 2014 #14

Thanks, everyone, for your feedback lillypaddle May 2014 #17

Our politics are a part of each of us Shankapotomus May 2014 #18

tell them: "DELETE FACEBOOK" RandoLoodie May 2014 #20

Why do you need to say anything to them? LWolf May 2014 #21

You are free to post what you want on your facebook page. NCTraveler May 2014 #22

I see it your way, lillypaddle. Waiting For Everyman May 2014 #23

Great points lillypaddle May 2014 #24

No, they weren't MO_Moderate May 2014 #25

+1! YarnAddict May 2014 #30

I think people who are lillypaddle May 2014 #34

Hyperbole is also dangerous YarnAddict May 2014 #36

Here's the problem with this whole issue: YarnAddict May 2014 #37

You are making a lot of assumptions about me lillypaddle May 2014 #38

See reply 34 nt lillypaddle May 2014 #35

It is wrong and counterproductive to apply the extreme to the whole MO_Moderate May 2014 #43

Many progressives are too polite. GeorgeGist May 2014 #26

Viewing everything through the prism of politics is a very narrow view. Throd May 2014 #27

conservatives endorse misogyny, homophobia, racism, they are anti-worker Skittles May 2014 #29

I'm not saying you need to hear their side. Throd May 2014 #31

This message was self-deleted by its author Skittles May 2014 #33

^^this^^ lillypaddle May 2014 #39

One of the many reason I am not on Facebook Kelvin Mace May 2014 #28

I don't post political stuff on my facebook page... ljm2002 May 2014 #32

mind your own business TorchTheWitch May 2014 #40

WTF? lillypaddle May 2014 #41

telling you to mind your own business TorchTheWitch May 2014 #42