"Only thing holding [them] back is a good opportunity"

     Since blocking those certain websites, things have changed in my head.  I've changed how I use Twitter and now mostly correspond with people I subscribe to.  I don't want to quit it, because last week I was in Uwajimaya, the Asian grocery store in Seattle, and took a picture of carbonated drinks with Sasuke from Naruto on them and sent the picture to a writer I am acquainted with in Pennsylvania, who was having a bad day.  She liked the picture and that's the thing I like about technology, making people happy from a distance.

 

    I'm against AI in various forms because I know it could force the people who helped me after the Trump years and his Epiphany riots into unemployment, but even I have to make exemptions for The Beatles' "Now and Then," and the new Randy Travis song.  If only we could limit the tech to this usage and outlaw the crazed YouTube user who puts words in the mouths of the living and dead for "teh lulz," it'd be useful, rather than a threat.  I've read too many voice acting tweets where they compare themselves to Ariel with their voice stolen by Ursula.

 

    Really, after 20 years, I've learned the internet defines a statement I heard in Christian standup comedy.  "If you hate someone, you want to kill them.  The only thing holding you back is a good opportunity."  This was intended as a joke, but after reading statements where they'd improve a film series by having the parents of the director of a film they didn't like abort him, death threats, personality rewrites and generally unpleasant scenarios for fictional characters and celebrities they hate, and massive jumping to worst-case conclusions about people they barely know and discussing politics and ethnic relations with a seeming undercurrent of a desire for violent vengeance against the "Whitey Whipcrackers" and the Israelis, not to mention the ease to believe the right could hear Project 2025's contents and cheer wildly, I don't think that Evangelist was far off.  I've seen this on Godzilla forums, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and DeviantArt to the point that I've just accepted that I am never going to fit in by a lot of their standards, much like High School and BCC, I have to be aggressive and parrot what they want to hear, making me sick for betraying myself.  I only disliked George W. Bush because I thought he was smarter than he was--really, he just wanted to be a shining hero post-9/11, but didn't know how.  I only think Christianity will be persecuted if the right wing doesn't stop being as reckless as they're being, they are associating the name of Jesus and Christianity with radicalism, pro-violence, pro-rape, misogyny, intolerance and homophobia.  Who would want that in a society trying to be a part of a global community or a melting-pot nation?  This is why Trump is my ultimate villain, the harm he does reaches deep inside my psyche and nobody punishes him for it.