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Skriven 2011-05-26 16:26:42 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
  Kommentar till text 19386 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: Mr. Know It All (was:  ...)
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Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Robert Bashe on Thursday May 26 2011 at 13:28:

MV> On Thursday May 26 2011 07:48, you wrote to Björn Felten:

RB>> You don't like it when I try to show you - with negative comments on
RB>> Sweden - how YOUR comments on the USA look to people there and why
RB>> they return your insults and hate messages with interest. But you
RB>> find it perfectly OK to put people and their country down, and then
RB>> wonder why they don't embrace you for such vindictiveness.

MV> What you forget is that this is not a recent issue.

No, of course not.

MV> We were not exactly received with open arms....

If you behaved like Bjorn nowadays, does that surprise you?

MV> You may say that we (Ward, Björn and me) get what we deserve, but in
MV> reality is the other way around. We have had to deal with well over a
MV> decade of arrogance, bullying and insults.

I see a reaction to exactly that by people like Bjorn. Arrogance, bullying and
insults. Why he doesn't seem to be able to stop is something only he himself
knows. And I have absolutely no sympathy with him - he's getting precisely what
he gives.

MV> Remember "pissant little country"? Remember the "Euro Trash Shit Pig
MV> Pacifist Pussie"? Remember the snide remarks about royalty
MV> worshipping?

I remember such reactions to similar anti-US tirades.

MV> Remember the attempts to bully Björn out of office? We tried to stay
MV> polite...

He did? It certainly escaped me. All I can remember are his anti-USA insults,
innuendo and all-out defamation. Not a trace of understanding, not a trace of
seeing the other side.

MV> I can not speak for Björn and Ward, but when I speak for myself, I say
MV> that I am tired of turning the other cheek. Fifteen years of bullying
MV> and swallowing insults is enough. I am giving them a taste of their
MV> own medicine and if they don't like it, tough luck...

Then you have to take what you give. Bjorn apparently doesn't like to do that.

RB>> If you want to get the kind of reputation you presently "enjoy",
RB>> that's the way to to things. Once more, "you gets what you gives".

MV> And our friends across don't seem to like the taste of their own
MV> medicine. Ye reap what ye sow...

So we can continue to lambaste one another, Bjorn at the forefront, or we can
stop and start dealing with each other in a civilized manner. I think that is
possible with you and Ward, but with Bjorn I have my doubts.

Cheers, Bob

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