{"id":4492,"date":"2017-11-08T02:45:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T17:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=4492"},"modified":"2017-11-08T02:45:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T17:45:38","slug":"beef-and-whine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/beef-and-whine\/","title":{"rendered":"Beef and Whine"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am encouraged by the comments on our Radio Free Ricochet post.\u00a0 I go back and forth on some of the overarching issues on how to handle things at times.\u00a0 This website well pre-dates its function as a relief valve or safe harbor for Ricochetti.\u00a0 That is not its manifest purpose, but it is a welcome opportunity to take care of friends.\u00a0 As such, we’re not founded here on complaining about others.\u00a0 This is not verizoneatspoop.com, which was a real website years ago.<\/p>\n

One thing that most of us do have in common is a set of viewpoints or an approach to discourse which is not exactly welcome over there.\u00a0 This is more than an accident — we are largely self-selected for this trait.\u00a0 Yet it is not the whole of why we are here.\u00a0\u00a0I make no claim to objectivity in which stripe of bomb-tossers get through the door here.\u00a0 My kind of people get in,\u00a0and so far that has served me well.\u00a0 I respectfully submit that it serves us well.<\/p>\n

We also share an appreciation for a more focused conservatism, and an impatience (to put it mildly) with the GOP’s business-as-usual, no-fight-today, try-again-tomorrow approach.\u00a0 We’re effin’ done with it, and don’t mind breaking some dishes.<\/p>\n

There is a line between beef and whine, and I am glad to see folks hashing things out.\u00a0 Frequently, I take my cues from you guys as much as I give them.\u00a0 It’s a group and I’m glad to be part of it.\u00a0 I would not want\u00a0this site in the aggregate to become a “stalker site” where we all just dump trash on the ex’s lawn.\u00a0 That’s a misread of the situation, and not healthy anyway.\u00a0 At the same time, I want folks, particularly those with recent wounds, to feel welcome to spill\u00a0beans over here.<\/p>\n

Venting seems reasonable.\u00a0 Obsessing, not so much.\u00a0\u00a0I’m not so much interested in issues over there as I am concerned for\u00a0people and their issues.\u00a0 Somewhere at the intersection of addictive behavior and a sense of community lies an internet forum’s\u00a0power to trap a mind.\u00a0 I don’t want to take too therapeutic an approach to things, but at the same time, I want people who need space and a good beef session to know they can do it here.<\/p>\n

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I am encouraged by the comments on our Radio Free Ricochet post.\u00a0 I go back and forth on some of the overarching issues on how to handle things at times.\u00a0 This website well pre-dates its function as a relief valve or safe harbor for Ricochetti.\u00a0 That is not its manifest purpose, but it is a welcome opportunity to take care of friends.\u00a0 As such, we’re not founded here on complaining about others.\u00a0 This is not verizoneatspoop.com, which was a real website years ago.<\/p>\n

One thing that most of us do have in common is a set of viewpoints or an approach to discourse which is not exactly welcome over there.\u00a0 This is more than an accident — we are largely self-selected for this trait.\u00a0 Yet it is not … Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4493,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions\/4493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}