{"id":12978,"date":"2016-11-23T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/just-a-brief-word-about-the-news-related-stuff-i-post\/"},"modified":"2016-12-16T22:28:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T05:28:39","slug":"just-a-brief-word-about-the-news-related-stuff-i-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/just-a-brief-word-about-the-news-related-stuff-i-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a brief word about the news-related stuff I post"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don't like it.<\/p>\n

I don't like doing it.<\/p>\n

I don't enjoy myself in the process, I don't like knowing that people I know are blocking me, or rolling their eyes, or just (even if they agree) settling me into that category of "those people who are always posting political stuff."<\/p>\n

I don't like cold-calling volunteers at district congressional offices. <\/p>\n

I don't like sending blankets and safety gear to the water protectors in North Dakota WITHOUT knowing if it'll do any real good, or be enough – I want to help, you know, but I don't want to waste money, either; I want to know it'll help, and I just… don't. It stresses me out.<\/p>\n

I don't like following every breaking story on the Washington Post, or scouring the four-page-long posts on 'what you need to do as an ally' from the LGBTQ people I know, just in case there's something I should be doing that I didn't know about.<\/p>\n

And I don't like that I almost never LET myself just repost something someone else said – that I have to rewrite everything myself, so at least it's not just a spammy re-post – it's a spammy original post.<\/p>\n

So… I don't like it. Don't imagine I do.<\/p>\n

I don't like paying my mortgage, either. I do that.<\/p>\n

I don't like getting up at 6am to get my kids breakfast. I do that.<\/p>\n

I don't like doing laundry, or doing dishes, or a hundred other thing that I do anyway.<\/p>\n

I do them, because I signed up for them. <\/p>\n

I wanted the house.
I am a dad.
This is what's required.<\/p>\n

And all this other stuff? The politics? The calling? The researching? The reading?<\/p>\n

I asked for it.<\/p>\n

Because I'm a dad, or a husband, or an uncle, or just a friend, and I can't see these people in my life in pain, or in danger, or in fear. I won't.<\/p>\n

I don't enjoy any of it – if nothing else, I don't like knowing even more about politicians I didn't like much in the first place. I have a hard time understanding folks that do<\/b> genuinely enjoy breathing this stuff, day after day. Maybe they don't exist – maybe it's all people like me, doing it for a reason. Maybe. Nice to think so.<\/p>\n

So: sorry if it's tiresome to see on your newsfeed. Sorry if it's annoying or just boring. I understand, but please don't imagine I'm like some kid at a birthday party, throwing cake frosting around and having a grand old time. That's not what this is.<\/p>\n

But I'm not going to stop, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don't like it. I don't like doing it. I don't enjoy myself in the process, I don't like knowing that people I know are blocking me, or rolling their eyes, or just (even if they agree) settling me into that category of "those people who are always posting political stuff." I don't like cold-calling … <\/p>\n

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