When Fans Of A Thing Make You Dislike A Thing

when fans of a thing make you dislike a thing

Couldn’t agree more, and that’s all I’m gonna say in the matter.

The amount of Anon’s on my dash today trying to justify the murder of people by police men…

"This person MIGHT HAVE DONE SOMETHING ILLEGAL so I reserve the right to EMPTY MY CLIP IN TO THEIR HEAD! AND THEN START A SECOND ONE!"

YOU PEOPLE DON’T SEE ANYTHING WRONG WITH THIS?!

Whether these people were on their way to do something illegal, moving away from something illegal, or are compleatly innocent YOU DON’T SEE A PROBLEM WITH JUST EXECUTING THEM ON THE SPOT WITHOUT EVIDENCE ON THE IDEA THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE POSSABLY DONE SOMETHING?!

Whether Mike Brown had done something is IRRELAVENT when put up against the fact that Darren Willson killed him.

This isn’t the wild west where the sheriff rides in with his very fine hat and faces down the black hats at high noon.

You don’t just kill people.

Even though some places in the USA still have a death sentence it is decided upon by a jury of peers, a judge, it’s double checked, tripple checked, then they live on death row for years sometimes.

They don’t just take them out back and shoot them.

What. the. actual. FUCK!!

Like, what is this the american "colonization"??! Does humanity NEVER learn?!?!

Tanzania evicting 40,000 people from homeland to make room for Dubai royal family November 18, 2014

40,000 Masai people will be evicted from their homeland in Tanzania, because the Dubai royal family has bought it with the intention of using it as a reserve to hunt big game. Last year, the Tanzanian government had resisted the purchase, proposing instead a “wildlife corridor” dedicated to hunting near the Serengeti national park. However, the deal will still reportedly go through, and the Masai will have to leave by the end of the year.

The deal was brokered by the Ortelo Business Corporation (OBC), a luxury safari company with a number of elite clients.

The Guardian’s Africa correspondent David Smith has the story:

Masai representatives will meet the prime minister, Mizengo Pinda, in Dodoma on Tuesday to express their anger. They insist the sale of the land would rob them of their heritage and directly or indirectly affect the livelihoods of 80,000 people. The area is crucial for grazing livestock on which the nomadic Masai depend.

Unlike last year, the government is offering compensation of 1 billion shillings (£369,350), not to be paid directly but to be channelled into socio-economic development projects. The Masai have dismissed the offer.

Samwel Nangiria, the coordinator for the local Ngonett civil society group told Smith that he never thought the government had considered canceling the deal, rather, they just wanted to fool the international press into believing they might. “I feel betrayed,” he said. “One billion is very little and you cannot compare that with land. It’s inherited. Their mothers and grandmothers are buried in that land. There’s nothing you can compare with it.” Nangiria also said that those who opposed the hunting ground were in danger– many were killed by police and Nangiria had received personal threats.

“I will fight for my community. I’m more energetic than I was,” said Nangiria. “The Masai would like to ask the prime minister about the promise. What happened to the promise? Was it a one-year promise or forever? Perhaps he should put the promise in writing.”

A petition on Avaaz.org entitled, “Stop the Serengeti Sell-off” has received over 1,765,000 signatures as of Monday morning. The petition reads: “The last time this same corporation pushed the Maasai [alternate spelling] off their land to make way for rich hunters, people were beaten by the police, their homes were burnt to a cinder and their livestock died of starvation.”

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Imagine you’re at a party. A guy offers you a drink. You say no. He says “Come on, one drink!” You say “no thanks.” Later, he brings you a soda. “I know you said you didn’t want a drink, but I was getting one for myself and you looked thirsty.” For you to refuse at this point makes you the asshole. He’s just being nice, right? Predators use the social contract and our own good hearts and fear of being rude against us. If you drink the drink, you’re teaching him that it just takes a little persistence on his part to overcome your “no.” If you say “Really, I appreciate it, but no thanks” and put the drink down and walk away from it, you’re the one who looks rude in that moment. But the fact is, you didn’t ask for the drink and you don’t want the drink and you don’t have to drink it just to make some guy feel validated.

The art of “no,” continued: Saying no when you’ve already said yes. « CaptainAwkward.com

I love this post SO MUCH. 

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This is absofuckinglutely true. Predators deliberately find the women they can manipulate out of a “no” in order to pick the most vulnerable women to coerce. If you see a guy doing this to someone else, step the fuck in. Amplify her “no” if you see her struggling to assert herself to someone pushy.

I’ve done this for a total stranger. When I said “I think she said no” he started acting sort of aggressive and told me to mind my own business, but she was looking at me with panic and when I asked if she knew him she said no. After it was clear I wasn’t budging he left, and after he left she told me she had been uncomfortable and didn’t know what to do, and that he’d grabbed her inappropriately.

Protect each other. Not everyone is able to voice a “no” firmly and repeatedly. Learn the skill and protect others who are still learning it.

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