Fighting Stupid
I am not a “staying neutral” kind of person in general. If you know me for like six seconds, you probably have a good guess on where I stand on 90% of issues and items. I am very opinionated, and I also do not believe that just because someone agrees with me on issues makes them a good person. I go back and forth on many issues in general, from politics to sports. Some items I will not budge. The Sackler family and the destruction they have caused is one. Attacking marginalized groups is another. And people who say depression and anxiety are not real is one more.
But in general online, I really am trying to stay out of a lot of things I could not resist before. it is pointless. Why am I going to yell and scream at Marjorie Taylor Greene only to get attacked all day? Why am I going to tell Ted Cruz and Kevin Sorbo to f*ck off when they make money off of it.
So I have been pretty drama free. And as you might have known, we had a hurricane in Florida. It moved a lot and ended up hitting the west coast of the state, but not as bad as projected.
So a day before the hurricane, I was on Twitter and a woman popped up on my timeline who said “With everything else going on, now I have to deal with a hurricane.” I have never seen this woman, and this really is not a political or social statement. Hurricanes suck. Not only the during and aftermath, but also the preparing.
So then I read the comments on her post and the first one was a guy with some weird Twitter name who wrote
“And the government is the one that makes these hurricanes.”
She replies “Do not get me started.” and then realized her timeline was entering Pulte scams and wanting to imprison Dr. Fauci.
But the government thing really made no sense. And it bothered me. but I knew if I replied then I would deal with I am the fat guy who draws stick figures who pretended to be an MMA fighter who drinks soy milk all day.
So I held off for as long as I could. So after 37 seconds, I replied “Okay, please I need to understand this because it is the dumbest thing I have ever heard.”
When I did that, someone who follows me said “Well, actually, if you think about it, because we do not care about climate change and the Earth and…”
NO!!!!! STOP NOW!!!! That is not what this guy meant at all. Not even remotely. I refused to have anything logical into something so stupid and illogical.
This guy claimed that the government has scientists who make hurricanes to ambush America. The American Government. Then other people sent me real links about attempts to control a hurricane or failed attempts to contain one.
Again, no one was listening to me. This guy claimed that the government makes hurricanes so they can attack states only to destroy lives and have the government pay for it.
So he write me a long word salad of nothing explaining. I said look, send me a link of this.
So he sends me a link. I will not share this link as now I have five viruses on my phone from it.
And people agreed with him. Of course, they are the people who used Guns and Ammo as so-called pronouns, but still. I was baffled. I was baffled for many reasons. Take the politics out of it. If we had that kind of power, or any country did, why on Earth would we use it against ourselves?
And I kept thinking about it. And then I stopped. And just realized those are the people I have been arguing with for years.
What is the point? What good comes out of trying to prove to someone that Earth is round when they believe it is flat? Or why explain to someone that any politician who will be going to jail is not the best fit to run our government anymore?
I have horrible anxiety. More so since I lost my business in 2018. I fight it every single day. Even on good days I can feel anxious. And I hate it. My depression has subsided. It was more situational than anything. But the anxiety is there. Loud and proud.
And what good is it to fight or argue or debate with people like this? It is not. When I worked in restaurants and in mortgages and in cars, I could work with anyone who was willing to work with me. But online, it seems like I just keep fighting a dumb fight. And I absolutely hate it.
This is why I really like this. Only a few hundred people read this. People who understand my journey. I want to share my thoughts with you all, but I just…I mean…I cannot keep fighting with stupid people. I just can’t. I can support good local candidates to win and I can support and fight for things that matter. but to continue to argue with the dumbest of the dumb…
No more. I deserve better.
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