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I'm gonna be totally honest: I don't like Lady Gaga's music. However, I learned today that she was raped at 19 years old, and that made me feel sad. Personally, I don't believe any woman deserves that, and while I'm being honest, whenever I hear stories about women being raped, I just wanna take my .357 and cap the guy who did it.

Ordinarily, I don’t post a lot about gravely serious matters, but as a guy who hates seeing people become victims of domestic violence, I figured this was important enough to post. I don’t know if anyone else on Tumblr has posted this, but apparently, there’s a hand signal you can use during video calls if there’s violence in your home. Save a life; spread the word!

Ordinarily, I use my Tumblog as a place to post and reblog fun stuff as opposed to advocating for various causes, but since this is something that’s been a part of the fabric of my life since I was in high school, I’m gonna post this anyways.

So in a nutshell, Snopes - aka the #1 urban legends reference site on the net - has been under attack by various lawsuits launched by an advertising partner that they no longer do business with. Snopes has managed to valiantly fight off these lawsuits, but the plaintiff is trying again, and lawsuits can be costly to defend, so basically, I’m posting this to rally people together to donate to Snopes’ cause.

Why am I doing this? Because Snopes - created by Barbara and David P. Mikkelson back in 1994 - not only proves or disproves various myths both old and new in addition to providing news stories, but they do so in as neutral a fashion as possible, kinda like Wikipedia. As for the news stories, in cases where they’re sourced from third-party sources, they also put up a neat little disclaimer stating that these stories don’t represent the work of Snopes fact-checkers.

In short, if any of you care about the truth and wish to prevent it from slipping into darkness like War, I urge you to at least reblog this post.