Why Would I Be Blocked by “Felicia C. Sullivan” on Medium?
Discussing the history of propaganda with a charming, cultured friend on the birdsite this a.m., I received a phone notice about a Medium story with this title: “I Lost My Best Friend of Two Decades to Trump” by Felicia C. Sullivan.
I was going to read it, because way back in 2015 corresponding with one of my best writing friends ever, I made the awful error of commenting, “I don’t think Trump is all that stupid — I watched several episodes of the first season of The Apprentice and he actually gave some pretty good — bzzt!”
— -auuughahhhhh augguuaahhhh Trump sucks auuughgaaaqhhh how could you say that auuuggghhahhhh — —
So we didn’t talk for four years.
Every time after that when I saw this friend on social media, he was saying something bad about Trump.
I still have a break in my friendship with my best writing friend ever. I will always love him and always want to work with him and be friends with him. I am fine with his Trump hatred but seriously — saying even one vaguely decent thing about Trump caused a four-year break in a real friendship with a real, and good person I care a lot about.
So, I thought, “oh, I’ll read this article … it sounds like maybe something similar happened to …”
And I’m like “What?”
I’ve only blocked two people on this service, and it was because that was the only way I could stop it from forcing their undesired stories on me at inopportune moments.
Why would I be blocked? I haven’t ever heard of this person (to my knowledge) and don’t know of any disagreement or issue I may have had. For those who don’t know me in person — I don’t burn bridges and don’t dispute with people over things none of us can do anything about. At this point, for any normal human, that pretty much includes Donald J. Trump pro-or-con and any supposed “political” “advocacy.” We can’t individually do anything right now, something that should be extremely obvious to one and all.