{"id":304,"date":"2017-11-17T13:54:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T13:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2017-11-17T13:54:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T13:54:21","slug":"yall-need-to-find-something-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"Y’all Need To Find Something To Do"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I am working a lot more than normal (how is that possible, you may ask, and all I have to say is, I always find a way), but personal internet time is severely limited. When I am not working, I usually only have about an hour or two, and to unwind, I have been watching old episodes of MST3K and laughing pretty damn hard.<\/p>\n

I have put up a couple of things on Twitter, since I can just drop them and not think about it afterward or be compelled to dig into what others are saying. I listen to a little bit of news on the BBC on my way to work or home so I don\u2019t feel totally isolated.<\/p>\n

I checked on Facebook yesterday when I had a spare minute, and one of the posts I had had generated over 200 responses. I won\u2019t get into them other than to say, y\u2019all need to find better things to do that yell at each other and call each other names on social media.\u00a0 No one\u2019s mind will be changed.\u00a0 No one will \u201cwin\u201d an argument.\u00a0 No one is keeping score.\u00a0 You won\u2019t \u201cown\u201d anyone and your clever cruel remarks will fall on deaf ears.<\/p>\n

No one will listen to you.<\/p>\n

Let me repeat that again for the people in the back: NO ONE WILL LISTEN TO YOU.<\/p>\n

If you and your buddies are having fun poking the people on the other side, you are the problem. Period.\u00a0 Full stop.<\/p>\n

I hear constantly \u201cWhy won\u2019t liberals\/conservatives listen to me!\u201d Maybe because you call them libtards, hillbillies, snowflakes, dotards, and on and on and on. \u00a0I\u2019d also like to let you know that when you start talking like that, you really aren\u2019t saying anything anyone will listen to because you are just parroting what you heard.\u00a0 Recently, someone sent me a nastygram calling me a \u201cBeta cuck libtard snowflake SJW\u201d.\u00a0 Rather than hurting me, it made me think that the person hadn\u2019t had an original thought in their life and we just vomiting up what they read somewhere and thought \u201cheh, I\u2019ll show those people who make me feel bad!\u201d<\/p>\n

My mind has been changed by my experiences and by learning, never by someone shouting at me and calling me names. All that gets you is blocked.<\/p>\n

I say it all the time:\u00a0 If you hurt me, even a little bit, you can fuck the fuck off.<\/p>\n

And if I can pull that trigger on someone I have known for almost 20 years or in-laws, I have no problem doing it to random internet hatetroll.<\/p>\n

In a perfect world, I\u2019d ask you to quit talking and posting and listen. Listen to what people you disagree with say.\u00a0 Ask them how they came to where they are in life.\u00a0 Try to understand the fear that drives them to hate.<\/p>\n

But, instead, I\u2019ll just say that y\u2019all need to find better things to do, so here\u2019s a list:<\/p>\n