If you’re worried that your view of humanity is excessively sunny, well, here’s one way to fix that: take a look at the hashtag #FreeWarMachine on Twitter, full of people who seem to honestly believe that mixed martial arts fighter and sometime porn actor War Machine either didn’t beat his ex-girlfriend nearly to death, or that, if he did, she probably deserved it anyway.
In other words it’s a virtual parade of the very worst people currently living on planet earth. I’m posting some of the, well, milder tweets below, but even though I’m avoiding the worst you should seriously consider heeding this TRIGGER WARNING and visit @CuteEmergency instead.
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So here are the sorts of people in War Machine has in his corner:
https://twitter.com/Paul_Hendric/status/501740690460934144
https://twitter.com/SluggerBro/status/500474536718917632
@christymack …thats wa u get ya cheating whore #freewarmachine
— Solo (@rtroke88) August 16, 2014
https://twitter.com/RickyOnDatHoe/status/500481400198672385
Fuck whore ass Christy mack.. #FreeWarMachine
— tkrepps (@thewhitetk) August 16, 2014
Oh, but it gets worse. The most active commenter in the hashtag is a hyperbolically racist troll (in all senses of the word) whose name contains a racial slur. You’ll have to go through his history to see the terrible, terrible things he’s saying; there’s no way I’m posting them here. Be WARNED: His Twitter page is illustrated with a giant photograph of the severely injured Christy Mack.
What’s stranger than this outpouring of support from foul misogynistic shitheads is that War Machine is also getting what appears to be utterly sincere fans who think that he is the real victim here.
https://twitter.com/killamarge/status/501209285280284672
Meanwhile, this woman, whose thoughts proved too expansive for Twitter, gave the whole situation a New Age spin. Citing the so-called “Law of Attraction,” she argued that War Machine had only turned bad because he’d brought a bad person with bad energy into his life. That person being the woman he (allegedly) nearly killed.
I would sic a hardcore curriculum of LAW OF ATTRACTION on his ass.
I almost did… he read a book I sent him when he was in jail… and he seemed to turn things around for a while. But the material didn’t stick. It requires almost the same level of dedication and practice that MMA itself requires.
And Mack was just a huge fucking wrong turn for him.
“You are who you hang out with.”
“You become the thoughts you most repeatedly have.”
Mack gets fucked all the time = WM is now fucked. Big-time.
Blah.
I pray that the judge hates the porn industry…maybe her husband left her for a porn star… and maybe hence, the judge will have some sympathy for WM…lol.
I suppose I have to give this woman credit for originality. Victim blaming is more an art than a science, and this is artful indeed.
Well, considering that he was in porn too, I guess that phrase really does cut both ways.
And re: Law of Attraction, I’m a Wiccan. I don’t believe in that crap. I’m sure it does attract a lot of prosperity — and SUCKERS — for whoever wrote those books, though.
And yeah, negative energy. When it’s all the guy puts out, what the hell does anyone expect? The man is one big gigantic fucking negative vibe.
Yep, cuz she can ‘fix’ him. What a dangerous waste of space.
The Law of Attraction: Where everything is your own fault all the time no matter what. Except, if you’re War Machine or any other abusive guy. Then you’ll get LOTS of sympathy for some reason.
“CM framed him”? Um, HOW? By being at home with a friend when he decided to drop by for an unannounced visit?
These people are not only hateful, they’re fucking idiots.
Also, the famous “I was framed” defence only works when someone else committed the offence. There is no question that he perpetrated the violence on her, ergo he wasn’t bloody framed.
He wasn’t set up, or triggered, either. A reasonable person does not perpetuate (domestic) violence against another.
To his defenders: you’re defending the use of excessive violence. You fail as human beings.
Oh, but it gets worse. The most active commenter in the hashtag is a hyperbolically racist troll (in all senses of the word) whose name contains a racial slur. You’ll have to go through his history to see the terrible, terrible things he’s saying; there’s no way I’m posting them here. Be WARNED: His Twitter page is illustrated with a giant photograph of the severely injured Christy Mack.
Well, he’s certainly a prince of a human being. Truly, I feel honoured to have this person speaking so eloquently on behalf of my gender and race.
Yeah, these people are just evil. I really can’t express my contempt for those sympathetic to this abuser.
So much ewwwww.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop Ecstasy.
The “Law of Attraction”…Woo-woo speak for the world is unfair and I can’t admit to myself that it’s not fair, because then I admit that bad stuff can happen to me and that’s scary.
In WM’s case though? if he gets a long jail sentence that’s totally fair.
If I deliberately drive 300 miles to beat the everloving crap out of someone and nearly kill them THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR MY BEHAVIOR.
Doesn’t matter whether that person was breaking vows of fidelity they made to me by humping every Tom, Dick, Harry, Jane, and Lisa. Doesn’t matter if that person dumped me hard. Does. Not. Matter.
Nobody gets to pull this kind of crap and get away with it. I mean, WTF?
@leftwingfox: I see your Airplane! reference.
I made the mistake of using the cocaine line from that movie in one job only to discover that nobody realised the reference until I pointed it out to them…
HAHAHAHAHA…really? And I’m sure that the steroids he was taking to attain and maintain that physique, and his own pre-existing fucked-upness, had nothing to do with that slip. Nothing at all.
These people. “Discipline”. I can’t even.
I know it’s early in the thread, but it’s never too early to post kittehs for everyone:
Between all the racist/hatefull people coming out of the woodwork after what happened in Ferguson and now this…I can’t even deal.
Just going to go frolic in a field of daisies….
Ugh, that douchebag with the n-word in his name retweeted a photo of me winning a crew regatta. Now I guess all the MRAs on Twitter are going to call me fat.
https://twitter.com/SSCWorldwide
You’re right though, pallygirl. If Twitter lets folks set up accounts like this one there’s probably nothing you can’t write there.
Twitter, still not fucking good enough:
http://www.polygon.com/2014/7/30/5952135/twitter-harassment-problems
http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/14/6002417/twitter-to-improve-harrassment-policies-after-zelda-williams-quits
Twitter doesn’t understand online abuse against groups and focuses on intent: https://support.twitter.com/articles/15794-online-abuse#
I don’t use Twitter. I’m really not interested in this type of abuse haven.
the sheer amount of absolute garbage masquerading as human beings is why I dont have an account, I’d be too damn tempted to yell at them
pallygirl, I used to do Twitter for a while. It just…never really clicked with me. I’m glad I didn’t stick around. That shit is unacceptable.
Blahlistic, you nailed it. I really do not understand why this is so hard for some people to get.
If I deliberately drive 300 miles to beat the everloving crap out of someone and nearly kill them THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR MY BEHAVIOR.
Doesn’t matter whether that person was breaking vows of fidelity they made to me by humping every Tom, Dick, Harry, Jane, and Lisa. Doesn’t matter if that person dumped me hard. Does. Not. Matter.
focusing on intent seems a bit myopic on Twitter’s end. I won’t be investing all my dragon gold in them, for sure.
I’m inordinately grateful to learn that this isn’t a big thing on Twitter right now. Not that it’s not awful enough that it exists, but I’m not sure I could deal with it if a bunch of MRAs actually rallied around this violent bully. Their ideology and his excuses do line up nicely, but I think it’s good that they can’t come right out and endorse what he did. It at least means that violent assaults on women aren’t openly acceptable yet, you still need some kind of denial or smokescreen. It’s not much, but it’s something. Ugh.
Twitter needs to purge all the hate groups, or at least say they’re going to, like Facebook did. Effort, people, it’s needed badly!
http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/it-looks-pizza-hut-japan-now-totally-being-run-cats-159654
Brain bleach. These cats don’t need feminism because they have careers already.
…I think we’re gonna need something a little bit stronger…
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTS5WHJDXPSA_z1_r1mRWEw-ax7WLv5nVl-IXixCGZ6pJqIpRaS