If you haven’t heard from me in a while…

I have perhaps blocked less than ten people in my twenty years on social media. I am up over a dozen this week. It is not that I cannot stand contrary opinions on my feeds. There are several people that I try to argue facts over their reactionary memes. A lot of these folk are my age and succumbed to the accumulation of life’s injuries to make them injured conservatives. As Winston Churchill said: “If you’re under 30 and you aren’t a liberal, you don’t have a heart. If you’re over 30 and you aren’t a conservative, you don’t have a brain.” I have an equally long list of life experiences that make me a dyed in the wool Libtard.

For those of you who might be wondering: The past few weeks I have both been recovering from APR surgery to deal with rectal cancer and been on withdrawal from antidepressants. This makes for a period of emotional agitation. The nerve endings in my abdomen reconnect one by one; each time the signal transmits as an ice pick shoved suddenly where the sun don’t shine. My gut, replumbed for a colostomy, is still tender and complaining about the mugging it got. The combined side effects and withdrawal effects make my brain feel like a hedgehog being batted around with flamingos.

The good news is that this is all transitory. The bad news for some of you is that I don’t have the energy to put up with your shit anymore.

And that is the point. The people I’ve been removing (oddly, almost all middle-aged white men) are not engaging in spirited debate. They are counting coup in the Culture Wars, finding ways to pown the wet-assed pussies with each meme and TL:DR posting, and then soak up their tears to store in a jar beside their computers. Keyboard picadors. One old friend complained because I actually sank to personal insults after one long fact-free exchange. I told him: “When you abandon facts, it’s surprising how low social discourse can sink.”

I don’t want to be that guy, hurling back grenades at once bosom buddies. Even passing acquaintances that have self-radicalized in the last 3+ years. I want to concentrate on repairing my body & soul so that I might be of some use to my family when they need me the most. The temptation to count coup myself is sometimes too much to bear.

That is why I am not responding to your memes that demonstrate nothing more than your grievous lack of critical thinking skills. I do not see them. You have been given a time out.

If we all live until 2021, I may be switching you back on.

Weirdmaste.