{"id":14675,"date":"2021-02-26T19:29:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T03:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/?p=14675"},"modified":"2021-02-26T19:29:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T03:29:03","slug":"the-new-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/the-new-nuts\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few years ago, my sister told me about joining an Opera group on Facebook. According to her, she made an innocent comment, and everyone pounced on her. She was shaken by the experience, because she has an extensive knowledge of opera. I didn’t understand why this happened until now.<\/p>\n

Why do FB groups propagate this crazy behavior? Are the people who join groups already crazy? Or does being a group member generate deranged tribal behavior?<\/p>\n

I wondered if groups centered on the arts attract irritable snobs. But a friend told me her Laundry Tips group was nuts too. This is kind of exciting, actually, and tempts me to join a million groups, to observe how petty and hostile they are.<\/p>\n

I learned this shit the hard way by commenting in a group called “Victorian Images”. I rarely look at it but I did yesterday. There was a sepia photo of a stiff little child standing on a chair, as her mother knelt at her side. Stupidly, I commented that it looked like a postmortem<\/a> photo. It seemed obvious, in fact, that it was a postmortem photo.<\/p>\n

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Before I knew it, everyone commented on my ignorance, some angry, some mocking. It was incredible. It was death by a thousand cuts. One person exclaimed that I wouldn’t be “satisfied unless there was a Dead Victorian Baby”. I suggested that they were acting nuts, and conceded that I might have been wrong.<\/p>\n

So I posted the image on my own page, and got a unanimous vote that the baby was dead. So I went back to the group and said the baby was totally fucking dead, quoting Monty Python, etc etc.<\/p>\n

Now, everyone knows that neighborhood groups are contentious, except for their hatred of the homeless, but I just had no idea about other groups. Why don’t these nutcases take their fury to Twitter, where the action is? Are they pussies, only brave enough to vent in a private FB group?<\/p>\n

While I have a deep disregard for trolls, I’ve decided to become one on Facebook. Everyone hates me anyway so why not? At least I can have some fun. I read a thing about losing weight in my Sisters<\/strong><\/a> AARP newsletter for Black women. It asked me to list ten things that made me feel good, besides eating. TEN, are they kidding? I could only think of 4. You try it.<\/p>\n

Well, now I can add trolling to my list, for a total of five things. Yay, me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"