That ONE guy on social media...

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One of my old shipmates amuses me to no end when he gets p*ssed off at me on the Book of Faces.

The funny part to me is that he accuses me of being EXACTLY what he, himself, is. He sets himself up for this by interjecting into conversations and then gets royally peeved when someone DARES to disagree with him on something.

Heck, you can even AGREE with him on all major points, and he'll STILL be royally p*ssed...and then "sign off" in a huff over it.

The latest was over this posted meme by another mutual friend to which I posted my own comment:

Meme Flint Water.png

ME: What happened in Flint was stupid beyond belief on a variety of levels.

But I'm a bit tired of people beating a dead horse over it, now.

Flint's water quality was restored to acceptable levels in 2017. And they've undertaken a pretty massive task of replacing the water piping containing lead...which is still in progress.

So they HAVE clean water. And they're actively modernizing their water piping. They just have a lack of trust issue right now.

CB: Can you blame them for not trusting their local, state or federal governments?

ME: Nope. Not at all.

BUT...they can easily have their own water tested by an accredited lab. More than one neighbor can go in together to reduce the individual cost, too, if it's too much to pay alone.

CB: Yes of course they can and should, BUT-they shouldn't have to. It's not too much to ask that their water meet basic quality standards, and their government broke faith with them for far too long. If I lived in Flint, I would likely never trust a government official ever again. You might be tired of hearing about it, but if you were in the shoes of the average Flint resident, you might feel different.

ME: Well...we can all argue the "shouldn't have to" until the cows come home, but that doesn't change the fact that they do have to deal with that lack of trust. Trust violated isn't regained overnight, we both know this.

The claims are that the water meets standards now...and has since what...2017 sometime?

CB: You're missing the point. It's not whether it has been brought into standards, rather there has been a criminal lack of accountability for those who allowed this to get as bad as it was. That's why it needs to be brought up again- and again. Officials should have been jailed for this, and very little happened to them.

ME: No, that's YOUR point. The point of the meme was, quite literally, "...we can't get clean water pipes under Flint."

It wasn't about accountability.

And yes...they should be held accountable.

CB: Jesus Christ man, you just have to be right and have the last word, don't you! Fine- you win. I'm done.

ME: You know, I'm not the one arguing here...I made a comment about the meme posted, you chose to get in on that.

And if you'll note, I totally agreed with what you posted initially.

These people HAVE a trust problem. There ARE ways to work through that.
 
I generated this and posted it on my Facebook page a while back, just because of another such encounter with him.

Probably political...I just don't get into political stuff with him any more. He absolutely can NOT discuss anything political that isn't 100% in agreement with his own point of view.

Meme Controversial 1.jpg
 
I've been to Flint, and if anybody in that God forsaken hell hole is expecting anything besides HIV ridden blood and raw sewage to come out of their faucet, they are grossly over estimating the value of that city.

From my time there, if they live long enough to die from lead poisoning then they have already beaten the odds.
 
I had the unfortunate "pleasure" to visit that city back in the early 2000's to look a piece of property with the intent of developing it for rental housing. Never even got out of the car, just kept rolling past, returned to the airport, left town and never looked back........
 
Had to block an old Army buddy from way-back on FB. He turned into a foaming at the mouth lefty fruitbat during Manchurian candidate's first term & would shit all over any discussion he responded to. Dunno what happened to him, but I ain't got time for that.
 
Is there a reason you didn’t point out that Flint has been run by f’ing Democrats forever? And this is what happens when they are in charge of anything? Maybe you should continue it again.

Yeah...because getting into anything political with that guy would have been pouring gasoline on a dumpster fire.

Another reason is the guy who posted the meme...while it's pretty clear he's on the left end of the political spectrum, he NEVER gets involved in political dumpster fires. And he's one of the very small handful of people on this planet that I can point to and say "I'm alive because of you". Back when I was going through civilian and military legal Hell with my first wife, he was my LPO for a period of time. The man was rock solid at a time in my life when I needed someone to be.
 
Had to block an old Army buddy from way-back on FB. He turned into a foaming at the mouth lefty fruitbat during Manchurian candidate's first term & would shit all over any discussion he responded to. Dunno what happened to him, but I ain't got time for that.
I had one of those too! I still see him post his liberal BS on other friends threads. I guess they still put up with his crap. I was still on AD and picked up the phone in his office one day when he was in the latrine. It was was his (then) wife, who I had never met. I (jokingly) told her that she must be a Saint to put up with his crap and she lit into what a duche he was and how he was this and how he was that. I got waaaay more than I bargained for!
 
Never been on FB. Best of my knowledge I can't be found on there. I do like the law in the UK pertaining to FB. If you are Not a member and somebody posts something about You in a defamatory manner...You Get Money!!!!

I am continually amazed at the number of people on Facebook that feel the need to share their live’s with everybody. Social media is the devil.

And yeah, yeah, yeah to all you defensive little social media users. I know, “you are making fun of social media while posting on social media, ya know. What about that?” All smug and haughty like.

CFF is anonymous for the most part and is really ANTI social media. Just look at the cast and crew here. Pretty independent crowd that actually gets to know each other in real life a lot of the time. It’s much more of a shared interest group than a random social media site.
 
And yeah, yeah, yeah to all you defensive little social media users. I know, “you are making fun of social media while posting on social media, ya know. What about that?” All smug and haughty like.

You know, I was thinking about this the other day, and I believe message boards and forums belong in a different class of social media. FB, Twitter, IG, IMG and the like are very "me first" self driven platforms where socializing and interaction are secondary to the primary content, while forums and the like are pretty much solely based on interaction.
 
The meme that sparked the discussion is nonsense. It's no surprise that things went downhill from there.

My Facebook account never did anything but raise my blood pressure. I don't miss it at all.
 
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