Fools of Facebook

If nothing else, Facebook has at least made me realize how many complete and utter IDIOTS exist in the world. I mean really high class idiots, where even normal idiots go "DAMN, now THAT''S stupid idiot!" I don't necessarily mean my own facebook friends (although if this offends you you're probably an idiot.. or maybe if it doesn't offend you, you're an idiot because you don't realize this is supposed to offend you. Deeper than deep right there.) No, what I mean is all the pages that share funny/quote/"deep"/random images. Not the images themselves; the comments! Oh lord, the comments. I mean, can we just take a second to fully appreciate the wonderful endless source of mind boggling, nail biting, toe cringing, tragicomic entertainment that is the comment section of Facebook images. Now, I've always been a fan of comment sections everywhere, especially on YouTube where internet trolls have free reign, and it's just a great place to feel better about yourself, knowing that in so many places around the world, there are people making you look infinitely better simply by existing (WARNING: it will, however, make you feel horrible about the intellectual state of the world population.) The comment section on Facebook images is just better for 3 reasons:

1) Facebook has so many users (You'll never run out of material)

2) The comments tend to be much longer (Not the typical derogatory terms or "I'm gonna kill you")

3) Profile pictures (you get to see the people behind the words! I think this is probably the best part of it!)

There are innocent comments, like the ones on funny pictures that random funny people write, and we all laugh at in the blissful funness of it all. It's when you get to the more "serious" pictures (or videos, for that matter), that things get interesting. Take the subject of abortion vs. adoption in the case of rape, for example. I don't care whether you're against it or not; if you're a decent human being, you're not going to force a rape victim who ends up pregnant to keep the child if she doesn't want to. To me, that's a given. To many other people, it isn't. "It ain't that child's fault" or "The child can't help that she got raped" or "GOD WANTED THIS TO HAPPEN". One lovely argument for prohibiting abortion, even in cases of rape, is that "there are so many people that can't have a child who'd just love to adopt." Well you know what? There is no shortage of children to adopt. Why exactly do you want to force a raped woman to keep the offspring of the man who defiled her? Because we all want wombwet newborns. Not the older children. I'm not a big fan of quotes, but I must say I liked this one:

"The emphasis has changed from the desire to provide a needy child with a home, to that of providing a needy parent with a child." - UN Commission on Human Rights

I feel that quote is spot on. I'll end this section with a quote that suits these empathy lacking knowitalls very well:

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people always so full of doubts." . Bertrand Russell

Another example is when an image says one thing, and someone just writes a random comment that has nothing to do with it, like this image I saw of Madonna the other day, where she was quoted "Something bla bla say what you want to get what you want", and some woman made a comment about good friends and how hard they are to come by (clearly under the impression that what she said was deeply profound). I just can't wrap my head around exactly where she thought it was relevant.

There are so many cases of this, and I didn't begin to cover even the very tip of the iceberg, so if you have an example of this that you're dying to get off your chest, feel free to post about it in the comment section, or if you're feeling really witty, write a random, unrelated anecdote about your farming days in Venezuela.