Saturday Sedition in the ‘Threads’

 

I wake up in the middle of the night. i have notifications from the Instagram companion app ‘Threads.’ Simetimes people who tell me they liked my response to so and so, others from the app itself telling how many favorable views (60, 100 Likes, and so on)  this or that response has had. Still others anxious to pick fights with someone a few have started calling ‘the Cryptkeeper’ because of the avatar I’ve been using lately at FB and Instagram.

I don’t mind. Probably accurate in a way. Looks old on purpose.

Often there’s a back and forth or two, until they or I give up in disgust. All a waste of time, I suppose, but it’s a way to vent the nervous energy that wakes me up and I can go back to sleep for a couple hours. But now and then there’s someone so committed to their antiTrump obsession that they feel compelled to dig in and keep trying to put me in my place. They can’t help it. Here’s an example from the last day or so.

It started with a thread of TDS’ers who were irate about Hegseth’s speech commanding flag officers to start making the military manly again. No more dresses and DEI, etc. They started urging the generals to remove Hegseth and Trump from office by rising up against them. I reminded the most egregious about the Constitution’s insistence on civilian control of the military. Which is when Suzette Vaughn entered the thread. Here’s how it went:








That’s where it stands. I have no particular intention to continue the dialogue. Thought I’d close by making it clear that she had no chance of converting me to her position.

Note that I didn’t call her stupid or attack her personally. She was trying to keep to her point and I respected that enough to do the same. She has a consciousness disorder, a phenomenon I’ve been talking about with few direct responses of agreement or disagreement for years now. I believe this is an illustration of that. For reference see my post AOC/BSA/NPC from April 2019.

One-cylinder BSA 500. Great bike with no 21st Century microprocessors on board.

I know you’re wondering, some of you, “Where does he find the time for this kind of crap?” I don’t.the time seems to find me, even when I’d rather be sleeping. Like now.

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