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I am so fucking sick of ignorant opinions like this from people with absolutely no discretion. What is the point of something like this? I’m sorry, but do you realize how much you’re trivializing the inhumanity and chaos that is happening in Libya? I don’t care if you think the online petitions were useless or stupid, I really don’t. But I signed those petitions and you know what I care about? I care about what happens in Libya. Look, I do recognize that, of course, most of the time what we do from home on our computers isn’t enough to start a revolution. But people do these things - sign petitions, reblog news articles, change their tumblr icons - to spread awareness. Sometimes not every one has the means to donate or fly themselves out to a foreign country and be a volunteer or something like that, but they do want to help and they’ll do it by spreading the word. By telling people who are ignorant to what’s happening that this matters and that we should be focusing on this. People were showing their concern, people were showing that they have the capacity to care and that they want to care and they want to help and they want to do anything they can even if it’s just signing an online petition. Why would you want to demean that?

EXACTLY.

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“Tell everyone, tell the whole world. Because he’s going to kill everyone, he’s going to kill Libya.” — Libyan Eyewitness, on AC360 (via jaredpadacockforlibya)

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