{"id":1217,"date":"2014-07-11T16:16:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T00:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2014-07-11T16:17:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T00:17:19","slug":"facebookers-easily-enraged-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/facebookers-easily-enraged-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebookers easily enraged over&#8230; nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/facebookers-easily-enraged-nothing\/\" data-text=\"Facebookers easily enraged over&#038;%238230; nothing\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>S<span style=\"color: #333333;\">eems there is always some kerfuffle or other these days that has Facebook boiling. \u00a0A week or two ago a 19 year old Texas girl who happens to be a cheerleader and big-game humter, posted some photos of her kills on her facebook page.<\/span> \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2014\/07\/02\/texas-cheerleader-big-game-hunter-facebook-critics-backlash\/12012007\/\" target=\"_blank\">The hysteria was immediate<\/a>. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\">Of course people called for her to be killed, and many hoped they could have the chance to hunt her down the way she hunted those poor animals down, etc. \u00a0Not to get into the ethics of hunting (I see nothing wrong with it) here, the point is the mindless rage of the indignant, super intelligent and oh-so-morally superior Facebook mob.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">A fellow named Jay Branscomb had a brilliant idea. \u00a0He posted a publicity photo of Steven Spielberg posed next to one of the animatronic dinosaurs \u00a0from Jurassic Park that looked vaguley like a trophy shot with the following caption:\u00a0<em style=\"font-style: italic; color: #222222;\">&#8220;<\/em>Disgraceful photo of recreational hunter happily posing next to a Triceratops he just slaughtered. Please share so the world can name and shame this despicable man<em style=\"font-style: italic; color: #222222;\">&#8220;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/facebookers-easily-enraged-nothing\/spielberg-triceratops\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1218\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1218\" src=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/spielberg-triceratops.jpg\" alt=\"spielberg triceratops\" width=\"636\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/spielberg-triceratops.jpg 636w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/spielberg-triceratops-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/spielberg-triceratops-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">And&#8230;you guessed it. \u00a0Outrage ensued. \u00a0Not universal, though there are more than a few people who posted that they are upset that the endangered Triceratops is being hunted by a rich Hollywood Jew. \u00a0Oh, and one facebooker, to show that they are smarter than everyone else and got the joke claimed the dinosaur was &#8220;obviously photoshopped&#8221;. \u00a0LOL<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Seems there is always some kerfuffle or other these days that has Facebook boiling. \u00a0A week or two ago a 19 year old Texas girl who happens to be a cheerleader and big-game humter, posted some photos of her kills on her facebook page&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}