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Banned from Twitter [1]
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Date: 2022-07-05
Someone asked what the Republican platform is. "Kill Americans."
Famous last words. It appears my pithinesss will be my ruin.
I am permanent Persona Non Grata forever and always from Twitter. Like that will keeping me from #-ing, bitches. I own I fucked up, my bad. "Never give a short answer to a question that makes you sound like a monster." That's my Oompa-Loompa death song. Doopity-do!
So I had to bring the party back to my house. The alternative is running messages through a friend of mine...and you just don't do that to friends. I'm a big believer in fucking around and finding out. I weigh my chances before walking into an asskicking, but I try not to let it stop me. I'm terrible about not measuring depth or temperature before jumping in. But, if it's miserable enough it becomes Adventure!
I don't mind being wrong because recognizing it is the first step in finding out what is right and/or true. I should not have to stress DO NOT DO THIS AT HOME! Not everybody can be a human crash test dummy. The difference between Masochism and Machismo is a single S. Whatever mindset gets you through the beating. If this thinking is foreign to you, Good! I don't know what my advice would do to someone who is healthy. Never been a parent.
I know my mileage. I'm a fundamentally broken individual who uses a thousand little tricks to keep myself...coherent. And in middle school, I tested in the top 97%tile nationally. That curve drops to irrelevance beyond high school. I dropped out of high school, loved certifiable women, smoked weed, did psych meds. Went to prison. 3 year sentence for 2° Burglary, time served in full. Fucked around and found out. And no. I didn't have my sexual horizons broadened. I had to think about it. I decided not to. I knew my life would be complicated enough just being straight. I didn't want to deal w/ that reckoning when I got back outside. I say this because the very first question out of my sister's mouth when I got back home was "Was there lots of anal sex?" Human to be curious. Thanks grandma! She would have asked had she lived and known I've no doubt. In all other respects I am a staunch ally of LGBTQ community as well as Black Lives Matters and ANTIFA. Majority of this blog (donquixokie.blogspot.com) was written during the Occupy Movement. What the fuck was that about? Right, we did not have a friend in the White House in Obama. Saying that will get you blocked by fellow Liberals on Twitter. Hurt my feelings at first, but that's the price of Heterodoxy. Or holding heretical or minority positions.That Obama wasn't a good Democratic president definitely counts.
DON'T fuck around and find out! Please. Instead, watch everybody ELSE fucking around and finding out. Too often becoming test crash Victims.Their examples tell you exactly why you don't do those things. For test crash dummies like myself (HUGE respect to the band!) there is an art to fucking up. I did say I was good at tests. You make every mistake you can, tirelessly. Indefatigably. Because every mistake, every collision, directs you toward a primal truth. In tests, the answers to questions I had gotten wrong always stayed longer in my mind. This is finding out the secrets of the Universe the long hard slow way. Leave it to the professionals stupid enough to try it. I have no Ego about this. I AM that asshole!
I also support emotional self-honesty. Like my father's suicide, there was no altruism in what I said that got me banned from Twitter. It served no higher purpose. It was so mean it cut and bled. My wife has pointed out that but for the addition of a couple of extra words, I'd still be on Twitter. This is why I don't want anyone too upset about me getting banned from Twitter. There is no way they could look good defending me. Impression management is the key to getting by in the world and what I said was fucking toxic. Let me be clear. I want us all to survive. Even when that means me enduring Pariah Stink for something I said. Really, the cost almost feels neglible compared to the death of my dog. Something many of you helped me deal and grieve w/ during that episode in my life. For which I'm very grateful. BEST PRACTICES: Catastrophic emotional losses and grief help one maintain perspective. Everything else pales a bit by comparison.
In future installments, I will be dredging up the lessons I learned on Twitter and that will mean hearing things I've said ad nauseam (ooh! Italics!) But in this format, I will be able to just say it once. Repetition bugs me. I hope to control it. I will try to enable comments because I'm going to miss talking to you guys."I love the friends we have gathered on this thin raft. We have erected pyramids in honor of our escaping..." Who knows that one boys and girls?To all my friends from Twitter, Welcome to my new old home!Renovation of the decor will take some time. Patience please.
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