Unpopular Opinions: #walkaway is bullshit

I've dusted off this old blog because I have something to say about the upcoming election and current political climate. (Something about these times that's making that impossible to ignore, n'est ce pas?) In the bowels of the hell pit that is Twitter, something called the #walkaway (or it's more explicit variant, #walkawayfromdemocrats ) is being reported and promoted. It's the concept that Democrats are so in love with Trump because he created jobs, and so tired of Democrats because political correctness, that they're all going to vote for their Republican candidates.

Is this a joke? Of course it's not a joke.

#Seemslegit

For. The. Love. Of...
Because certainly, it's been a monologue I've been hearing all over my community. Yours too, I'm sure:

"You know, I was a liberal person with liberal values. But then I saw Dana Loesch and Sheriff Dave Clarke basically go full stormtrooper on social media, yelling about how much they would love to see gun owners massacre liberals in the streets. And I saw Stephen Miller literally leering at me from the podium on CNN, ordering the citizens to obey the President without question, and then heard he was delighted to see the suffering of children taken from their parents and thrown in internment camps - or left in the desert for traffickers to pick up and take away. And I read that Steve Bannon, his trusted Senior Adviser, really liked racist novels, and J. Beauregard Sessions, our Attorney General, thought the KKK were too softly liberal for his tastes.
"And I saw the President overseeing it all, conducting himself like a two-bit mafia boss, running the show from the luxury resort he still owns even though that's got to be against the law, right? And I saw him spend more time speaking/performing to his adoring crowds in stadiums, mocking victims of sexual assault and the handicapped, whipping them into violent frenzies against the press and anyone sort of liberal, than doing any actual governing.
I saw him basically tell police in Long Island they could do whatever they wanted to suspects because Latino gangs. I saw him give his personal cell phone number to a sworn enemy of the United States, defying the advice of his Secret Service and security force in general, while belittling the Prime Minister of Canada and The Pope.
"And I thought, "Wow! Trump conservatism sure is the way to go!"

Yeah, that's totally what happened.
Who believes this stuff?

...oh.
#thatsnotMelania



Know your history

Coming soon: Mario At Work (a new blechg)

One thing I'm consistently warned about is that everything I post on the internet is reviewed by future employers. (And sold to marketers and advertisers. Oh, sorry, I meant to say my data is mined. Same thing.)
I'm not ashamed of my sociopolitical opinions, but I would like to write about stuff I do that I can actually get paid for in a neutral setting. So I set up a blog for the following topics:

Programming Topics:
App and Site Development
Design
Science

Post-Production Professional Topics:
Animation
Visual Effects
Editing

General writing stuff can still go here where no one can find it. :p
UPDATE: It's live! Check it out!

Belief Grief

Much has been written about the Five Stages Of Grief. It is experienced with people when you lose them, but what about something even more important? A deeply held belief that, in many ways, defines you...and it's a lie. You're wrong, and you're caught.
Imagine how awful that must be. What goes through a person's mind throughout the transformation. Like fixing an addict or a cult member...who tend to show the same creepy, desperate characteristics of your least favorite online commenter or angry social media poster.
So you go through the five stages as follows. See if you recognize these from, say, social media:

Denial: There is NO evidence to support that! Also, the hundreds of links you've provided with detailed evidence in every single one is wrong because I don't like those sources because they are dumb and so there.
Anger: YOU DIRTY ROTTEN CUCKOLD! You're through, pal! Get me?!?!?! You'll never eat at a nice restaurant while I'm alive!!!
Bargaining: Yeah, well, YOUR side has jerks, too!!!
Depression: Oh my god...everything I know is a lie. Everything...they're all laughing at me, I'm a failure, kill me...
Acceptance:

Sorry, I've never seen any examples of that last one....at least not on social media.

Motivations

A wise man pointed out that motivation is bullshit: :) Sometimes it's not that simple, of course.
I like to hang out on sites where I am given prompts - questions to write long answers for, or projects to draw or code or whatnot - to create. When I don't get the prompts, I am truly useless.
Why is that?
If you have the same problem and you came here for advice, well...sorry.
I'm bringing this blog back to work through problems, and like you, I hope to solve them...but that is the always moving goalpost that life makes us score on.