Christ. The world is dire on the internet the last couple of days.

An off-duty California police officer pulled a gun on a man whom he accused of stealing Mentos candy at a gas station, according to ABC TV station KABC in Los Angeles. https://t.co/nQ8GeMD2js pic.twitter.com/R0yVRT2WXl

— ABC News (@ABC) May 5, 2018

The cop drew a gun on a man over Mentos. It doesn’t matter that he had paid for it. That part just makes a bad situation already worse. But he was ready to shoot a man over Mentos. There’s something fundamentally wrong with that. #ThisIsNotNormal https://t.co/xslmVpLKkb

— Citizen K Calls BS (@Citizen_Kryptik) May 5, 2018

For those confused about this, the problem here isn’t JUST treating ‘sex’ as a commodity to be ‘equally distributed’. It’s that it’s treating WOMEN as the commodity through which sex is attained. Get it? This bullshit is treating women like literal trophies to attain.

— Citizen K Calls BS (@Citizen_Kryptik) May 5, 2018

And thread from Elon James White, as a microcosm of how shit like the Starbucks incident keep happening -

Sigh.

So I’m at Sesame Place for my kid’s birthday. She’s been losing her shit since we arrived because she’s at SESAME STREET. We get on rides and slides and she’s ecstatic. But after her nap time passed by an hour she started acting up. We realize it’s time to go but…

— Elon James White (@elonjames) May 5, 2018

Tack on the two Native American kids who got the cops called on them for being ‘too quiet’ on a fucking tour, the usual Trumpian idiocy, and….bleh.