Counterpoint, it most certainly does not make you two, or you and I, or him and I, or any other grouping you imagine, friends.

We are cohabitants here, certainly, but the purity spirals and ideological purges have ousted so many from larger locales that we have people here who agree on many issues but disagree fundamentally and vehemently on a number of others.

Some of us are friends of convenience, certainly, but the general group relations are, at best, those of associates. We may be pulling the rope, but it's only vaguely in the same direction, and we're bickering and bitching the whole way through.