Molehills On the Battlefield

An odd exchange with a follower earlier. To another poster I added to his complaint about the recent trend of side-by-side reaction videos They are dumb and pretty much unnecessary. My addition was that I didn't like the ones where someone is telling a joke, and on the other side of the screen is a clip of someone laughing outrageously. Why? And perhaps worse, the split screen is used to tell a story, and the other side is some inexplicable B-roll of some unrelated product being made. Again- why?

Are these first world problems? Yes. But I wasn't crying or praying to Trump that these 'creators' be deported to a Sudanese prison. I was just kinda bitching. Is that wrong?

To one follower, it was! At first, I wondered if I was reading her wrong. Could someone read my post and take it so seriously? A quick perusal of my bio mentions something about me being a "gifted satirist and sarcasmist". Eh, who reads those things anyways. I also say that "DM's mean you want to sleep with me" but that doesn't deter DM's or get me laid. This chick was advising me to not sweat the small stuff as there are bigger problems in the world. No shit? Are there? It was like that Trump where he interrupted a reporter asking about the Epstein files with an incredulous, "Are you really talking about Epstein still??!!" Well, yeah, grandpa. We are! Just because you had your DOJ close the case saying there was no client list after all, doesn't mean there was no client list after all. Not here on Earth I. 

This chick continued to press and advise me to not let little things upset me so much. 

You know how you should never tell a woman to calm down (even when she should calm down)? 

Well, you should never tell a Ferrerman how he feels about something when he doesn't feel that way. 

I have a right to dislike cheesy Reels. It wasn't really a molehill I was dying on, just an observation. 

For some reason I cut mutual followers a little bit of slack. I've got a paltry 3000 or so followers, but to be honest, there's only a handful or two that I actually like and interact with on a regular basis. You know how social media goes. Probably 90% of people just follow to get a follow. Following me doesn't mean we're new best friends. That's the way social media goes. 

So, I was mildly sarcastic to her at first until she doubled down, as if she could actually guide me in life and get me on a path to being miserable about things that were important to her instead of my silly peccadillos. 

Lord knows I can bring the pain to the deserving dregs of society. I enjoy it. But I often find myself feeling sorry for leaving these louts on the battlefield of their dishonor. I always wonder what made them this way. Who hurt you that you might be so racist or vitriolic towards libs, Joe Biden or my governor, JB Pritzker- just to name a few. Honestly, when I see those ubiquitous "Karen" videos where someone has a very public meltdown, not too deep inside I feel sorry for them. Here is a person who used to be someone's darling little girl full of hopes and dreams and puppies and cotton candy. And now they are breaking down in public over black people existing, or someone parking in front of their house. They might even breakdown over poorly done video clips...

I can't do a goddamn thing about it save for wondering what drove them over the edge. I probably shouldn't care, but I'm essentially a nice guy and a pretty decent human being. I don't like to hurt people unless they really got it coming. There's just so many lost souls out there striking out at whatever they can in life, but usually for all the wrong reasons. They don't pick their battles very well. Sometimes they fuck with the wrong Ferrerman. Or in this bitch's case, she got the wrong Ferrerman, but on the right day. I took it easy on her. I'll go back and block her now, which I should have done in the first place.