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  • Selfish Causes · 1 year ago
    Hey Wielinga.
    Is this unsigned email worse than or equal to blogging under a phony name? Does it matter that the writer is most likely a tenant of the Ocean Center Building and is worried about reprisal? Is the writer a wussie, Dave?
  • wswaim · 1 year ago
    I'm sorry, Selfish Causes. I posted it--that is, I, Will Swaim. Who sent it to me, I can't say.

    But let me weigh in on the Anonymity thing: First, there's an asymmetrical power relationship between political officials and the people they govern; so like you, Selfish Causes, I can understand why some citizens would want to remain anonymous.

    But I get what Dave is saying: there's far more power available to those citizens when they go public. Imagine Martin Luther King Jr, but anonymous.
  • wswaim · 1 year ago
    And Dave's name is "Wielenga." I pronounce it "sir."
  • Selfish Causes · 1 year ago
    To Sir, With love:
    Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)
  • Selfish Causes · 1 year ago
    --Joey Ramone...not his real name! :)
  • Dave Wielenga · 1 year ago
    Aww, Selfish Causes, I could never not like you.