The Block Queen Strikes Again

This will come as a revelation to precisely no one BUT Twitter and Facebook are all too often cesspools of idiocy, assholedom and rude motherfuckers who just want to go all snide, superior mean girl/boy in the most toddler temper tantrumy of ways.

Obvs this makes it the perfect platform from which Preznint Stupid can spew his GIANT lies, hideous innuendoes and incitements to violence.

Cretinous Codger aside, folks who you’d think would/should be allies are also guilty of stupidly boorish behavior. Shit they’d never say to your face is easily tippy tapped into the reply box without any consideration for:

• how half-wittedly cruel they’re being
• that their thoughtless, hurtful assumption is, ya know, hurtful
• how recklessly insensitive text makes the twitter, who may otherwise be quite pleasant, appear to be no better than the most egomaniacal and doltish of Karens (again, a gender neutral term).
• that neither Twitter OR Facebook are necessarily set up for deeper convos BUT it IS possible.

Maybe these uncivilized imbeciles are like this in real life too. Ya know, the sort who are apt to tout that Marylin Monroe line:

…if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

Fine, fine BUT this was Marylin-fucking-Monroe. Also, I don’t know you and have never seen your good side, if it exits. You’re no more than some crap spewing rando who I'll never meet live and in person. And you are, undoubtedly, NO MM.

 Maybe the social media mean girls and boys are actually, in face to face interactions, perfectly civilized. Perhaps they could learn to, instead of making uninformed, self-important presumptions, ask simple, probing, questions so they might be able to appear less the empty-headed clod.

I’ve talked about the bubble life I’ve created for myself before. I felt uneasy – that I wasn’t getting a full sense of the world/the people around me. Here’s the dealio though – I read the news and obvs NOT the rightwing propaganda horseshit sites like Fox, Breitbart or The Daily Caller. The New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and the BBC are my go-tos for what's up. Actual fact based sites versus the Republi/Fascist agitprop weaselshit outlets.

I’m informed and aware. 

Since I’ve embraced this self-knowledge, I’ve cut loose and gone on a block/mute tear. I’m quarantining until a real phase three tested, proven and effective Plague45 vaccine comes out. Until then, a lot of my socialization is on line.

Granted, Ten’s been back from the wilds of Oregon for THREE weeks now (YEA!) AND Jen and Oni will emerge from their plague spreading employer’s induced quarantine tomorrow. ALL good but, even so, sometimes this old misanthrope gets a craving to see, chatter and kick Vans with additional folk.

This is why I’m on Shoutyface and Twatter. It’s easy – mostly all text and pics (with the odd, unclosed captioned vid mixed in) – so, no need for challenging and frustrating lipreading.

The point of this rant?

• Have you felt dissed by someone’s statement? ASK them “did you mean to state/imply X?” OR, diplomatically as you can, reply with “you seem to have misinterpreted my point – allow me to clarify…”

OR

• Just block/mute the shit out of ‘em.

Right now, nearly four weeks past BIG ass spine surgery, from which I’m still weak and often in Courbet levels of pain (less frequent now, thank fucking Bast), my diplomacy cupboard is pretty much bare.

So then, I AM the Queen of Block.