Two years ago I made a decision to leave Facebook, and it was one of the best decisions I’ve made in recent years. AFter having spent roughly a decade on it, at that point I realized I was wasting too much time there. It began as a fun diversion, a fun way to reconnect & stay connected with old friends, a good forum to post pics from my tour groups, and later my family, not to mention some great boards for some of my favorite topics, such as Slayer and The Philadelphia Eagles. And of course, I loved the political food fights, and it being a a source to promote my blog!
I did enjoy it for a while, even though I had to place some limits on myself. One of the first lines I drew was turning everything off at 10:00 PM. I didn’t need whatever topics were flying going through my bed at the end of the night. After a few nights of spending hours going back & forth with political arguments I set myself to one comment on any thread per day. During the day I’d read whatever excrement the Lefties were throwing my way, write whatever responses I had on my lunch hour, and would post them when I’d get home from work before tuning out the threads until the next morning, lest I’d be tempted to respond. Even though nobody ever moves anyone’s opinions in scoial media, unlike Lfties I enjoy having my opinions challenged. And I liked getting opposing views to ensure that I was keeping myself educated as to what the opposing side believed. Sometimes things would get heated, but no more or less than would occasionally during debates over a few beers at a local watering hole,
Over time though, things changed. If I had to trace back to a starting point, I’d have to say it was when Obama was first elected in 2008. I’m not going into the reasons here, as they’ll be covered in tomorrow’s post, but I noticed that Lefties were getting angrier. Things got progressively worse until 2016, And for similar reasons. If Lefties were angry under Obama, under the Trump administration they became absolutely nail spitting furious. As much as they hated Dubya during his eight years, he was at least gentlemanly enough to just laugh and shrug off every smear and piece of venom that they hurled at him. And as much as The Radical Left hated McCain and Romney during their brief stints as their Emmanuel Goldsteins, nothing compared to the rage they felt ast the notion of having a Republican President who had the audacity to hit back at his critics. I don’t need to go into detail about how that spilled down to the Normals who committed the mortal sin of not hating Trump as much as The Radical Left does. But that’s not what drove me from Facebook.
This is the point where I’m supposed to write about some over the top moment, but that wasn’t the case. Lefties were getting angry that as their tone got nastier, I also modified my tactics. While I made a point to not draw first blood, I’d always keep political debates civil until the moment any Lefty crossed the line. At that point the gloves came off, but I restricted myself to matching their tone. It got received exactly as well as one would expect. My favorite exchange came when I commented on a Lefty friends’ post, and one his friends who I’d never met threw down. I don’t even remember what the original topic was, but with each post I’d drop I kept making the argument that Obama did more to hurt black Americans than Robert Byrd or Ralph Northam could have ever dreamed from under their Klan hoods. Like any good Lefty he ignored my facts and threw out some tripe. Finally when he decided he wanted to wrap things up he wrote a long paragraph with some typically lazy Lefty straw man arguments alleging Conservative racism and ended it with, “Now you aren’t an asinine racist, are you Brother Bob?” To which I calmly reiterated all of my examples of Obama’s racism, pointed out that one person in the discussion condemned all of it, while one not only refused to condemn them, but seemed to use his silence as approval. I finished by saying that there seems to be an asinine racist on the thread, and asked him if he agreed. I would have loved to have read his response (I saw he did in my notifications), but after he wrote his response when I tuned back in the next day he had blocked me. Not long after that our mutual friend (who had the odd habit for an adult male of somewhat regularly talking about me behind my back) unfriended me. Within the week a friend of 20 years who rarely made an argument that didn’t descend into personal attacks went into a rage and blocked me because instead of indulging his personal attacks and trying to reason, I just reworded his excrement flinging and sent it back his way. As Boomer Esiason might have said back in the day of ESPN’s awesome W.A.T.C.H. campaign, “The program is working.”
Far from burning me out, annoyng people who deserved to be angered was always satisfying. Interestingly, the worst ones were old friends of mine, and by the end the only people with whom I could consistently have intelligent debates with were a hardcore gay activist from San Francisco and a twenty something grad student Bernie Bro. Yes, seriously. And in the end, what ended things was me realizing that even with fewer people to debate I was still spending too much time just scrolling through my timeline to see what everyone was up to. Nothing painful, but I realized it wan’t he best use of my time. And as simple as that, I decided to stop. I allowed a few converstion threads to run their course, and then I dropped my farewell post. It wasn’t easy, as this was in the midst of the Kavanaugh WItch Hunt, and the weapons-grade Libtarditude being dropped was painful to not give the mockery it so richly deserved. But I knew I did the right thing, and I never looked back. And what a difference it made – immediately I was getting more things done, getting to bed at night earlier (mostly because I wasn’t playing catch up with my chores after spending hours on FB), and it felt great.
Unfortuantely, I haven’t been able to divest completely. Because my neighborhood and Little Bob’s school have good boards set up, I have to spend a little bit of time each day looking for breaking news, especially given the fight over getting Little Bob back into school. FB also has a great Philadelphia Eagles board, for which I turned off notifications given that the Eagles are no longer a part of my life. I still use FB to promote my blog posts, as some of you might have found this story. And I try to like or comment anyone who’s kind enough to take the time to comment on one of my posts, but please don’t be offended if I don’t do the same for yours. I try to keep out of the cesspool lest I let myself get sucked into some insane converstion. The rare times I let my guard down and scroll through my timeline, well, I get what I deserve. For every one or two cool things I see, I see 5-10 that are genuinely painful. Old friends who never posted anything political are now covid paranoid and calling Kyle Rittenhouse a White Supremacist. Friends who were mildly leftist are now frothing at the mouth angry and “Beautiful Mind” paranoid. One woman from my school days now lives in California, and while she never flaunts it, if you look closely at her posts you can tell that she and her husband have done incredibly well for themselves. Never political previously, she is rabidly anti-Trump, recently complaining that for the first time ever her taxes went up. I din’t have the heart to tell her that her grievance is with Gavin Newsome. not Trump. Of course I didn’t, and you get the idea.
I’ll leave you with a question about the anti-Trump hatred. Sister Babe and I are connected to many Leftists on Facebook. And while we’ve noticed that not all of them are angry, but we’ve noticed that there is a distinct difference between the calm versus the angry. Why? Tune in tomorrow for the second installment, Why Are Leftists Perpetually Angry?
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Facebook is a cesspool, alright. While I hang in for the sake of staying connected with friends and family and finding others, I can’t resist the arguments. I should, but I can’t. I don’t know when or why it started, but I get articles of the NYT posted on my feed. They are so biased and obviously false, often I can’t resist commenting. Sometimes, a comment draws HUNDREDS of crazed responses!
Likewise, I have a very liberal nephew who, to his credit, has not blocked or unfriended me. I can usually scroll on past his idiotic posts but sometimes I simply can’t resist the opportunity to gouge his ignorance. However, I am not going to change the mind of someone whose career is working at his mother’s dance studio and convincing fat women his exercises are effective.
Likewise, I have, I think, ONE liberal friend and, man, is she liberal! I went to high school with her and she was, shall we say, a “free spirit”, especially for a small Texas town in 1971. She now lives in Seattle. To HER credit, she hasn’t blocked or unfriended me and I have made comments on her posts a couple of times. When I asked, out of actual concern, how close she was to the CHOP zone, she fell strangely silent.
I have recounted how my wife’s own twin sister unfriended and blocked her, as has another of her sisters. I just can’t bring myself to do that; it seems to be an admission one cannot handle the views one finds detestable.
In short, you’ve probably made the right decision. I just can’t… just yet.
Facebook’s Partner: The Atlantic Council (5 Frightening Facts)
Rigged: The Chairman of the Presidential Debate Commission…
@Deplorable Me:
At the introduction of the presidential debates, the two stooges for the Commission on Presidential debates told the whole world they were sponsored by the Atlantic Council . . . Hiding in plain sight . . .
Facebook’s Partner: The Atlantic Council (5 Frightening Facts)
Rigged: The Chairman of the Presidential Debate Commission…
Jews Albright and Clark had NATO bomb Serbia so the IMF Jews could make loans for rebuilding and get control of Serbian iridium assets… while Saudi non-profit n.g.o.s kept the KLA terrorists well fed and well armed… Just like ISIS in Syria… their Zionist bedfellows on Wall Street want Ukraine for GMO grain crops… Monsanto, Genentec, ADM, etc., are all buying land with the help of the Jews at the IMF by giving the Ukrainian “Dill” idiots debt relief… The Ukrainian parliament is full of Jewish apparatchiks.
Jewish U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D), great grandson of Jacob Schiff (who funded Bolshevism, Leon Trotsky, and the October Revolution from Wall Street) is following in his great grandfather’s footsteps by illegally trafficking weapons with Igor Pasternak, funding foreign conflicts abroad…and trying to get Syria for the oil pipelines by blaming the Russians for another false flag… ISIS = Khazar = Kiev junta = Zionist IMF
IMF Jews are in bed with the Turks, Saudis, and NATO, they are worried about a Trump audit of the Federal Reserve… and about Trump and Putin teaming up to destroy them once and for all… Trump is a vote for peace, and peace does not make money for the weapon industry…
The pseudo secular media and their Zionist masters profit from destabilization. Retaining control of US foreign policy is what drives the neocons and Hillary’s flying monkeys… along with the millions Goldman Sachs and the Saudis have paid them.
The banksters need a war desperately right now. They’ve tried so hard in Syria and it just hasn’t worked. Now they’ve got crazy Trump actually saying we should get out of Afghanistan and focus on our own problems, and people are listening… What’s a self-respecting globalist financier to do?
Without the US military killing people and breaking things, there is no future growth path for them. So they send their puppets like Biden and Kerry out to talk up the fight against “evil” and threaten Russia, hoping to fool those dumb white ‘Murkins one more time into sending their sons off to die for God and Country and Goldman Sachs.
The U.S. State Dept. has been infested with communists since WW1 and Woodrow Wilson, they tried to steal the Russian elections for their comrades in the Russian Communist Party through non-profit n.g.o.s… just like at home in America… But Vladimir Putin defeated them, so they launched a fággot jihad against the Russian Orthodox church over the punk rock band and the Olympics (something Bítch Romney stupidly piled onto). Miss neo-kabbalah lesbian Madonna, now rumored to be a Muslim convert, was flown in to agitate while Hillary was on a world-wide gay pride tour.
When the Iron Curtain fell down the Bolshevik Jews all fled to the other side because they knew what the Russians would do to them after 100 years of communism. The best thing about Russia getting Crimea back… Catherine the Great took it from the Turks… What happened right after Russia retook Crimea? The Russian FSB searched all the Turks living there… Why? Because NATO sponsors Islamist terrorism when it suits them to…
The Podesta Group was paying Hosni Mubarak about 1.3 million dollars a year, they also rigged the Egyptian election for the Muslim Brotherhood’s now deposed Mohammed Morsi… reactions to the subsequent crack down on non-profit n.g.o.s by both the Egyptian and Russian governments should have been enough to implicate the real election hackers… HINT: they weren’t Russian.
The EUSSR needed Libya’s oil, but Muammar Gadaffi decided he wanted gold instead of worthless fiat currency from the EU… What was the first thing NATO did when Gaddafi was deposed besides stealing all of Libya’s gold? Form a new government? NOPE, they formed a new Libyan national bank. Now, why would they do that? Because even if Muammar was deposed, he and his heirs would still be the sole proprietors!
And while Leon Puñettas was so busy with gay pride celebrations at the Pentagon, three Navy Seals and a U.S. ambassador were murdered, all because everyone was being so fúcking gay.
@Chigna Tu Madre: You have anything on Jews poisoning wells or drinking babies’ blood?
lil Bob still not in school, here over 400 local students have gone out to other towns that have opened the schools, now all the State money for those kids goes to that district, feeling the financial pinch they are just now considering reopening the local schools.
After the covid ruined birthdays and a trip to Disney world the kids are excited to have a daily escape from the house.
You havent left facebook til you delete your account.
@Deplorable Me: Yeah, I remember you telling that story before. I’m really sorry to hear.
Try a one week blackout – it will do you well
@kitt:
Fair enough. But my FB time is nowhere near what I spent in my FB junkie days.
Arlington is feeling a bit of the pinch of losing students to private/parochial schools, but they’re helped by idiotic neighboring districts whose unions are demanding 100% virtual until the fall of 2021. I’m wondering when it reaches teh tipping point that sends teh parents into open rebellion
@Brother Bob: Governor Walker pretty much put the teachers unions and collective bargaining in their place. (see act 10) The smaller districts caught a whiff of extra dollars, bonus they are higher rated schools. Daughter has been using my moms address for years to send her kids to the better rated school. They get bus service from moms its only a 15 minute drive for her to drop them off.
@Deplorable Me: F u c k you and your Jewish god.
@Deplorable Me:
No, but Jeffrey Epstein was a capitalist, like most pedos you hang out with . . .
F u c k you and your Jewish god.@Deplorable Me:
@Brother Bob:
Mark Suckaturd is another pedo Jew just like Adam Schiff . . .
@Chigna Tu Madre: Yeah. Exactly what I thought. You might be advised, we are smarter than any leftist troll, you piece of shit.
@Deplorable Me: But, I’m not wrong . . .
The U.S. State Dept. has been infested with communists since WW1 and Woodrow Wilson, they tried to steal the Russian elections for their comrades in the Russian Communist Party through non-profit n.g.o.s… just like at home in America… But Vladimir Putin defeated them, so they launched a fággot jihad against the Russian Orthodox church over the punk rock band and the Olympics (something Bítch Romney stupidly piled onto). Miss neo-kabbalah lesbian Madonna, now rumored to be a Muslim convert, was flown in to agitate while Hillary was on a world-wide gay pride tour.
When the Iron Curtain fell down the Bolshevik Jews all fled to the other side because they knew what the Russians would do to them after 100 years of communism. The best thing about Russia getting Crimea back… Catherine the Great took it from the Turks… What happened right after Russia retook Crimea? The Russian FSB searched all the Turks living there… Why? Because NATO sponsors Islamist terrorism when it suits them to…
The Podesta Group was paying Hosni Mubarak about 1.3 million dollars a year, they also rigged the Egyptian election for the Muslim Brotherhood’s now deposed Mohammed Morsi… reactions to the subsequent crack down on non-profit n.g.o.s by both the Egyptian and Russian governments should have been enough to implicate the real election hackers… HINT: they weren’t Russian.
The EUSSR needed Libya’s oil, but Muammar Gadaffi decided he wanted gold instead of worthless fiat currency from the EU… What was the first thing NATO did when Gaddafi was deposed besides stealing all of Libya’s gold? Form a new government? NOPE, they formed a new Libyan national bank. Now, why would they do that? Because even if Muammar was deposed, he and his heirs would still be the sole proprietors!
And while Leon Puñettas was so busy with gay pride celebrations at the Pentagon, three Navy Seals and a U.S. ambassador were murdered, all because everyone was being so fúcking gay.
@Deplorable Me: You just hate it when Jews get caught . . . call pedo Jew Alan Doucheowitz, you know, the Jew who wants to get rid of the 2nd Amendment . . .
Jews Albright and Clark had NATO bomb Serbia so the IMF Jews could make loans for rebuilding and get control of Serbian iridium assets… while Saudi non-profit n.g.o.s kept the KLA terrorists well fed and well armed… Just like ISIS in Syria… their Zionist bedfellows on Wall Street want Ukraine for GMO grain crops… Monsanto, Genentec, ADM, etc., are all buying land with the help of the Jews at the IMF by giving the Ukrainian “Dill” idiots debt relief… The Ukrainian parliament is full of Jewish apparatchiks.
Jewish U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D), great grandson of Jacob Schiff (who funded Bolshevism, Leon Trotsky, and the October Revolution from Wall Street) is following in his great grandfather’s footsteps by illegally trafficking weapons with Jewish oligarch Igor Pasternak, funding foreign conflicts abroad… and trying to get Syria for the oil pipelines by blaming the Russians for another false flag… ISIS = Khazar = Kiev junta = Zionist IMF
@Deplorable Me:
Хиллари Клинтон пыталась украсть выборы в России с некоммерческими организациями, как дома в Америке, но Владимир Путин победил их, поэтому они вызвали все трудности с глупой панк-рок-группой и гомосексуалистами на Олимпиаде в Сочи.
Белые люди должны объединиться… Горькие марксисты ненавидят кавказских людей… Кавказские горы в России? У людей из России и США много общих интересов… мы должны начать новую космическую программу с новой эрой сотрудничества.
ГИТЛЕР БЫЛ ПРАВ . . . избавятся от евреев . . . Евреи нечистые бесы, как турки… Еврейские банкиры наводнили Европу с мусульманами и замусорили америку мусором из третьего мира.
@Chigna Tu Madre: Wrong blog for your style of hate, its rabid assholes like you that do damage to a peaceful insurrection against the individuals you rail against. Like the very wealthy and brain washed enablers its think like you 100 percent or you turn on them like a rabid dog.
Get thee behind me, Begone.
@kitt: This dipshit thought he/she would come on here and draw someone offsides. Typical leftist exposing their own racism to try and get someone else to join in. Kind of like ANTIFA trying to provoke retaliation, then videoing the retaliation. Chickenshit tactics carried out by chickenshits.
@Deplorable Me: @kitt:
But, I’m not wrong . . .
The U.S. State Dept. has been infested with communists since WW1 and Woodrow Wilson, they tried to steal the Russian elections for their comrades in the Russian Communist Party through non-profit n.g.o.s… just like at home in America… But Vladimir Putin defeated them, so they launched a fággot jihad against the Russian Orthodox church over the punk rock band and the Olympics (something Bítch Romney stupidly piled onto). Miss neo-kabbalah lesbian Madonna, now rumored to be a Muslim convert, was flown in to agitate while Hillary was on a world-wide gay pride tour.
When the Iron Curtain fell down the Bolshevik Jews all fled to the other side because they knew what the Russians would do to them after 100 years of communism. The best thing about Russia getting Crimea back… Catherine the Great took it from the Turks… What happened right after Russia retook Crimea? The Russian FSB searched all the Turks living there… Why? Because NATO sponsors Islamist terrorism when it suits them to…
The Podesta Group was paying Hosni Mubarak about 1.3 million dollars a year, they also rigged the Egyptian election for the Muslim Brotherhood’s now deposed Mohammed Morsi… reactions to the subsequent crack down on non-profit n.g.o.s by both the Egyptian and Russian governments should have been enough to implicate the real election hackers… HINT: they weren’t Russian.
The EUSSR needed Libya’s oil, but Muammar Gadaffi decided he wanted gold instead of worthless fiat currency from the EU… What was the first thing NATO did when Gaddafi was deposed besides stealing all of Libya’s gold? Form a new government? NOPE, they formed a new Libyan national bank. Now, why would they do that? Because even if Muammar was deposed, he and his heirs would still be the sole proprietors!
And while Leon Puñettas was so busy with gay pride celebrations at the Pentagon, three Navy Seals and a U.S. ambassador were murdered, all because everyone was being so fúcking gay.
@Deplorable Me: @kitt:
Every single word of this is the truth . . .
Jews Albright and Clark had NATO bomb Serbia so the IMF Jews could make loans for rebuilding and get control of Serbian iridium assets… while Saudi non-profit n.g.o.s kept the KLA terrorists well fed and well armed… Just like ISIS in Syria… their Zionist bedfellows on Wall Street want Ukraine for GMO grain crops… Monsanto, Genentec, ADM, etc., are all buying land with the help of the Jews at the IMF by giving the Ukrainian “Dill” idiots debt relief… The Ukrainian parliament is full of Jewish apparatchiks.
Jewish U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D), great grandson of Jacob Schiff (who funded Bolshevism, Leon Trotsky, and the October Revolution from Wall Street) is following in his great grandfather’s footsteps by illegally trafficking weapons with Jewish oligarch Igor Pasternak, funding foreign conflicts abroad… and trying to get Syria for the oil pipelines by blaming the Russians for another false flag… ISIS = Khazar = Kiev junta = Zionist IMF
Chinga tu madre, puta:
Too long, didn’t read, don’t give a damn.
@Bill H: But I’m not wrong, joto . . .
Jews Albright and Clark had NATO bomb Serbia so the IMF Jews could make loans for rebuilding and get control of Serbian iridium assets… while Saudi non-profit n.g.o.s kept the KLA terrorists well fed and well armed… Just like ISIS in Syria… their Zionist bedfellows on Wall Street want Ukraine for GMO grain crops… Monsanto, Genentec, ADM, etc., are all buying land with the help of the Jews at the IMF by giving the Ukrainian “Dill” idiots debt relief… The Ukrainian parliament is full of Jewish apparatchiks.
Jewish U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D), great grandson of Jacob Schiff (who funded Bolshevism, Leon Trotsky, and the October Revolution from Wall Street) is following in his great grandfather’s footsteps by illegally trafficking weapons with Jewish oligarch Igor Pasternak, funding foreign conflicts abroad… and trying to get Syria for the oil pipelines by blaming the Russians for another false flag… ISIS = Khazar = Kiev junta = Zionist IMF
@kitt: I’ve been a fan of Walker since he started taking on teh Teachers’ Unions, and he was my top choice in 2016. Damned shame he didn’t run in 2012. Glas that your fam found a way to take care of the kids
@Chigna Tu Madre: Guess what, culo: I still don’t care.
@Bill H:
But I’m not wrong, culero . . .
Jews Albright and Clark had NATO bomb Serbia so the IMF Jews could make loans for rebuilding and get control of Serbian iridium assets… while Saudi non-profit n.g.o.s kept the KLA terrorists well fed and well armed… Just like ISIS in Syria… their Zionist bedfellows on Wall Street want Ukraine for GMO grain crops… Monsanto, Genentec, ADM, etc., are all buying land with the help of the Jews at the IMF by giving the Ukrainian “Dill” idiots debt relief… The Ukrainian parliament is full of Jewish apparatchiks.
Jewish U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D), great grandson of Jacob Schiff (who funded Bolshevism, Leon Trotsky, and the October Revolution from Wall Street) is following in his great grandfather’s footsteps by illegally trafficking weapons with Jewish oligarch Igor Pasternak, funding foreign conflicts abroad… and trying to get Syria for the oil pipelines by blaming the Russians for another false flag… ISIS = Khazar = Kiev junta = Zionist IMF