Bill Paxton RIP

TheBlueWolf · January 2017

I think he's still planning the wall, and not in the rather more pleasant Pink Floyd way either. The last I heard, he wants Mexico to pay for it too.

ThePrettyDamned · January 2017

octatonic said:

Stories like this are fucking irritating:

http://www.iflscience.com/environment/trump-administration-removes-all-references-to-climate-change-from-white-house-website/

The same thing happened with the LGBT page but this is not a problem.
New president = new website.
I don't like Trump at all but we need to stay focused on what matters.
It is perfectly normal for an incoming administration to take down all the old information and put up new information.

If we are going to over-react to every perceived slight then we invite a 'boy who cried wolf' scenario.
Then we lose our voice because people don't listen if and when something truly abhorrent happens.

People need to chill the fuck out.

Seriously, fucking everybody on social media should read this post, then reassess everything they are about to say. The current culture of just posting whatever shit pops into people's overemotional, self involved brains before they pause to consider counter arguments, empathy or knock on effects is potentially damaging for when real issues do come up.

Someone on my facebook feed earlier was saying the USA needs an NHS and they won't get one so it's basically a humanitarian crisis without considering there could be other solutions to the problem. Someone challenged her, saying 'perhaps an alternative solution will be found - the way the US works is very different to the UK' - and she said 'anyone who is intelligent knows that voting for republicans, not least trump, is stupid'.

Yeah, right, and you're a fucking genius.