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I'm sorry if you perceive a power imbalance, while it is true that I could act on something silly like a little internet argument (why would i though, arguments are fun) this would be a super-cool step on the rollercoaster of "and then manus was fired because he acted like a fucking idiot lol". Sufficient Velocity generally doesn't tolerate power abuse in that line, but you do have valid concerns, and I am not one to tell you that a little skepticism of authority is bad or unhealthy, so I apologize for any misunderstandings caused and hope that we can treat this as any other internet argument. That is to say, a mutual pact of flaming the other person and using questionable terminology until the other person quits the site in a rage for a month because Someone Was Wrong On The Internet.
I understand your argument, but when you use terminology like "you people crack me up", it's hard not to come off as mocking, even if that was not your stated intents with your post. I apologize for insinuating so, but I can only react to what I perceive, and I think it's hard for a lot of people (me included, of course) to discern tone over the internet like so. I think using the term 'political' was a mistake, and as a communication scientist I must criticize @Stormwhite for using it; more relevant is the term 'personal' instead. To some degree, unless the author makes a concentrated effort to not insert his or her ideas in a work of fiction, their conceptualization of the world will influence what they write, that's okay; what I believe is influencing what I am writing right now, we all operate on the assumption that we are right or at least have a central point that is worth listening to. This is good, if we didn't, we'd either be depressed or insecure; possibly both.
But it's also one of the things that makes writing hard, because of how it can come off to readers; to some degree there is a level of reading into the text of course - we read with our own biases and are likely to catch subtext that was unintended due to our beliefs - but the author's ideas also influence this.
Now, I don't think this update is bad, nor do I think there was any such subtext here, certainly not as intended by the author, nor is it something I am reading into it.
But I think it's important to consider.
That said, I will withdraw from this discussion; assume that your next post beats up my argument really hard and gets like thirty likes or something, because I feel that making a post in this thread was a mistake, when the proper action would have been to let it run it's course or like make a meme reply to @Stormwhite because 50% of her post is stolen from my lessons on the narrative paradigm of communication.
