Write long, hopefully logical, well-thought-out, reasonable, intelligent and scathing rant on some topic or other (usually something from the news, or some related socio-political topic). Realize, often while in the midst of writing, that very few people are going to read any of it, fewer are going to care, and even less are going to bother responding in any fashion (barring perhaps a 'like' or two). Realize later that, should many people actually bother to do any of those things, you wouldn't have the time nor the energy to respond to them in turn if they actually bothered to argue with you, because it'd be like arguing a brick wall (most probably) or a potentially entertaining repartee with some friend playing Devil's Advocate (*nods at Lucifer's Heaven). Not exactly a lot of effort goes into this, mind, because it's very easy to rip some of these news articles apart. It's more the time spent than anything. And the depressing realization that the reason dictatorships have continued cropping up is because not enough people actually care about anything anyway. And they're certainly not all going to agree with you. Thus it's easier to force your will upon others, even if just for a while, to try and make the world work 'properly'. And then, realize again - the reason so many dictatorships are horribly oppressive is because the people who are both willing and able to go that far are all insane. Great.
Thus, I consign myself to the occasional Facebook-breaking rant for no-one to read. *sigh* And it's 2am again.
...apologies for the lack of paragraphing in that first chunk. It's a mini-rant.

And you all read Malazan, so no complaining about the length.

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