I'm shutting down Google+ for the night and quite possibly for the weekend. Why? This stupid #gifwars thing people are so proud of. This Adam Black guy said he doesn't like gifs and now everyone is mass trolling him. Having been mass trolled like this I can relate to him easily enough. Have an opinion and the collective might of Google+'s lower class denizens jump on a bandwagon. I just saw a post where someone wanted to jump on board and had to get clarification she was tagging the proper Adam Black. She wasn't even connected to him ! Nor was she a part of the original discussion. She just wanted to follow the herd. When I called her out of it she claimed, "one gif doesn't make a troll." Perhaps not, but she's contributing to a larger troll effort. One straw doesn't break the camel's back, but thousands will. So, tonight, Google+ disgusts me. It probably will tomorrow as well. And possibly Sunday. I gave up Google+ for two months this spring
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More on the 2014 standoff and the huge amount of nothing that has been done since then:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/05/462022130/as-oregon-situation-unfolds-heres-a-quick-update-on-cliven-bundy
As of today, the BLM tells us that Bundy still has not paid the more than $1 million in fees and fines he's racked up and that his cattle continue to graze on federal lands.
I read today that the feds only cut off power to the surrounding buildings, but not the main building currently being occupied by these tools. Why are they coddling these seditionist hillbillies?
#SendSnacks
And not being held accountable for the bullshit they get up to. You guys need to start looking at the big picture.
As for this giving thing, be fucked. Your leaders are trotting around the world cap in hand wanting money so they can go terrorise other countries while your corporations while your corporations are working on ways to steal from us. #TPP much?
While your corporations while your corporations? really? So mad you had to say it twice? That is your excuse for a population that is not willing to give to charity? That is pretty thin. Oh, while we are on TPP, the European governments signed the treaty on their own so you can't blame Coke and Wallmart for that one.
The old world is stuck in old ideas and only cares when their leaders force them to by rule of law.