Maybe I should just be happy a link to my column appears on Bluesky and forget Facebook.
Could I be satisfying some unknown sadomasochistic nature I have? Or is it I just won’t step aside when it comes to deliberate liars and bullies?
I refuse to leave Facebook. I refuse to stand down and just scroll past every troll post. And I find it interesting I rarely get challenged when challenging these posts. At first I would answer their idiotic claims in detail. But as of late I just call it a post intended to create rage, a troll post, or worse: tell them they’re obviously just playing the childish piss off the “libtards” game.
An idiotic game played by people who have never grown past the 12-year-old bully stage. You know: the bully who was probably held back, or at best made worse than mediocre’ grades and was hell on wheels for their teachers. As a sub I have tried to teach them. Some are mostly unteachable because they think they’re smarter than everyone else when obviously they’re NOT. They can’t think beyond their own sense of superiority and their deep loathing of even themselves. I see their self loathing posts of claiming happiness at making others miserable…
”Make them cry!”
”Love those libtard tears!”
Ha, ha, ha… HA?
NO ONE IS CRYING. You’re just into watching your own self gratification in the mirror of social media. Not much unlike a guy in a park wearing just a trench coat might do after exposing himself and just before the cops catch him.
The irony is, when it comes to men, I think every one of us is at least partially stuck at the 5 or 12 year old stage; the eager to please 5 year old or the eager to torment victims guy. The last being the same person who probably tortured dogs, pulled legs off of frogs while still alive, shot their younger siblings with a BB gun, or put blank guns up to their own brother’s head.
The most ironic part is the 5 year old does mature, the mentally 12 really doesn’t. Their nasty attitude prevents maturation. An adult is willing to admit if they’re wrong, respect those who disagree and consider alternate views. They generally like diversity, equity and inclusion. You know that much hated “DEI;” not spelled out because if they did say or type the actual words most of the public might say, “What the hell is wrong with those?”
Bullies loathe not getting the social equivalent to most favored nation status and others aren’t demonized.
As of late the AI generated and stock images of cute women holding signs with asinine statements fill pages of Facebook. We’re supposed to be conflicted because it’s a beautiful woman and not comment.
I do. Don’t care. But it is an indication of how shallow the poster’s opinions are when it comes to those who dare disagree with them.
At best these posts exist because it’s an election year and there’s a massive social media effort to convince people on Facebook, to influence Americans. A rather bad effort at that. Often lacking in logic, like the one claiming that allowing gays to express themselves is akin to forcing Muslims to eat pork. NO ONE IS FORCING ANYONE TO BE GAY. Get over yourselves. Tell me who are the REAL snowflakes here?
But there sure are a lot of over testosterone driven men who want to force their aggressive chauvinist nature on others, especially on women. Who want their leaders to be the same, like some perv presidential candidate stalking his female opponent on a debate stage. You can often tell the worst when they constantly call those who dare disagree with them “pedos.”
I suspect a lot of the troll posts may be being generated by the White House, even the president. Maybe almost all. Some of the reasoning is so bad it’s funny, like a joke starting with, “An idiot and a moron logged onto social media. It was the same person, so I repeat myself.”
Maybe it’s my mild conspiratorial nature but I do wonder…
Is the actual purpose of many of these posts NOT to change anyone’s opinion but to take the names of those who respond negatively? Take down names to provide a steady supply of people to the for profit private prison industry? Start with the undocumented immigrants, go to documented with things like green cards, go to those who protest, head towards those who vote wrong: information supplied by states voter rolls as they have been demanding.
Hey, the much loved by the right corporations can get richer being paid to also keep and torment those who oppose Donald Trump and his policies. Camps heading toward being death camps. The stats are small in comparison to say Auschwitz… FOR NOW. It ain’t just the undocumented now. They keep expanding their definition. Just like Hitler and his merry band of sickos did.
”First they came for the Jews…”
First they came for the undocumented…
You know those purchased and run by the government will be handed over to pro-Trump private prison companies right?
Am I exaggerating? Not for the early death camps where the toll was very small. And the treatment: take the case of Rodney Taylor.
Without even going to Facebook I know what MAGA will claim: he wasn’t a perfect person (No one is saying he was or is), he’s an “illegal…” (No, he had applied, had a green card, and was being considered, there’s a difference. “He had a burglary conviction when he was 11.” But he was pardoned. BUT NONE OF THIS IS MY POINT HERE. It’s his treatment while in the camp. He has severe medical issues. A double amputee who was denied what any double amputee should have. With his partial hand he’s had to crawl through the muck the feces to get to the shower.
The longer this goes on the worse it will get, the more secretive, the more deaths. Sure looks like the seeds to grow a network of Nazi-like death camps. The camps all across the nation are meant to hold thousands to tens of thousands of prisoners: a black hole where no due process applies. FOR ANYONE: it won’t be supposed “illegals.” One of the first sent in a wave: you may remember him, was sent to another nation’s prison which has been noted for deaths and being close to impossible to get out of. The courts ruled against Trump again and again. At first Trump did nothing. Oh, wait, Trump and the leader of the country did laugh when asked if he would be released. I am referring to L Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.
A judge (Paula Xinis) ordered him released and brought back. After many attempts to just have him incarcerated elsewhere he is free now, but they are still trying to incarcerate him. At the time of his first arrest and deportation he had never been charged with or convicted of a crime in either country: El Salvador or the US. He had no connection to that death camp in Honduras. You can bet Trump and Company are doing all they can to get rid of Paula Xinis.
Challenge this administration? HOW DARE ANYONE! To the death camps you go!
These ARE the actions of a wannabe King or dictator. Why are MAGA, Trump and his cronies so desperate not to lose seats in 2026? BECAUSE IT WILL PUT A SERIOUS CRIMP IN THE PLAN FOR AN AUTHORITARIAN COUNTRY HEADED TOWARDS A FINAL SOLUTION.
It may seem unconnected to us. I don’t know about you, but my family came here in 1633. I used to be a Conservative in the 60’s and early 70’s. I changed and, more important, the movement changed to something neither conservative nor worthy of Bill Buckley, Barry Goldwater, John McCain, or Everett Dirksen.
None of this might be something they would have approved of. Remember John McCain corrected an early Trump-like supporter by saying Obama wasn’t the enemy or evil, they just disagreed. It’s damn obvious the goal of some of the right today is the opposite of that.
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