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Hot Rod Revved Up	Mon Aug 06 09:43:46 With His Wife and Oldest Daughter. ***Several photos and a video in the article.*** Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson upsets animal rights advocates with pictures from aquarium visit By Tyler McCarthy | Fox News PHOTO: Dwayne Johnson attends the 2018 LA Family Housing Awards at The Lot Studios on Thursday, April 5, 2018, in West Hollywood, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP) Dwayne Johnson attends the 2018 LA Family Housing Awards at The Lot Studios on Thursday, April 5, 2018, in West Hollywood, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP) (2018 Invision) Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is in some hot water with fans after posting a few photos of him and his family at the Georgia Aquarium over the weekend. Now, some are accusing the star of supporting animal captivity. The “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” star posted three photos on Sunday of himself, his wife and their oldest daughter enjoying the sights at the aquarium. The first showed them inspecting a tank of whale sharks in which he wrote about being in awe of the animals. Johnson also thanked the staff of the aquarium, which oversee more than 100,000 animals and sea creatures. The second post showed Johnson playing with a beluga whale joking that he’d found his next co-star. The third image showed the star smiling down on a sea lion that’s looking up at him from its tank. While the images may seem harmless and the star grateful for the experience, many animal rights advocates were quick to take to the comments section to rebuke Johnson for advocating for animals in captivity. “This animal just need to be back in the ocean!!!” one user wrote. “For F*ck sake! Sad that a ‘celebrity’ in the public eye is in support of something so inhumane!” another said. “Stop spreading propaganda. The Georgia Aquarium takes animals from their native waters so they can exploit them for profit. These animals don’t belong in tiny chlorinated pools,” another user wrote. “This is animal abuse.” On Monday, Johnson shared a video of himself with a sea lion named Katie in which he pretends to hold a conversation with her while she makes noise on command. "I am one with creatures and animals and basically anything with a heartbeat," he begins the video. Since posting the images, the comments section of each photo and the video has been a deluge of angry animal rights supporters either arguing with people or chastising the star for his decision to support the practice of keeping animals in captivity by supporting the staff. Johnson, who can be seen next on his HBO series “Ballers,” has not responded to the criticism. Instead, he opted to to share a note eulogizing his friend, the recently-departed wrestler Brian Christopher Lawler. As previously reported, Lawler died in his jail cell of an apparent suicide. “RIP brother,” Johnson wrote in the caption of a picture of the two of them together. “Spent all week trying to process the hard loss of my good bud, Brian Christopher Lawler. He became a great friend the day I stepped foot in the small wrestling territory in the south known as the USWA to start my pro wrestling career.” http://www...tures-from-aquarium-visit.html
Hot Rod Revved Up	Mon Aug 06 09:53:03 BTW, you will not find any chlorine if their tanks. There is a product even for small home aquariums to neutralize the bad chemicals for freshwater fish. Since the huge saltwater aquariums contain vastly more expensive fish you can bet they are getting maximum care.
smart dude Member	Mon Aug 06 10:10:33 Here's the complete list of Twitter users who criticized the Rock, as per the the FoxNews article: "one user" "another" "another user" That's a total of three individuals. None of which are even identified by either their real OR Twitter names. Seems like Fox News is, uh, creating a story out of nothing? Would they do that? Meanwhile 3/4 of the article is advertising for the Rock's recent projects. Huh. Interesting stuff.
Forwyn Member	Mon Aug 06 10:31:03 Breaking news: Twitter is a cancerous shithole filled with Tumblr migrants “Animal cruelty and captivity should not be supported, let alone promoted,” read a comment that fetched more than 1,100 likes. “I thought you were a man of principles whose views would be against such concepts.” Not all fans agreed, however. Many mocked the anti-aquarium backlash and accused critics of being overly sensitive. Others defended aquariums, claiming that they were harmless institutions and insisting that the animals born there wouldn’t survive in the wild. http://www...ip-disappointed-134324707.html Seems like a non-story indeed, but certainly not relegated to Fox.
smart dude Member	Mon Aug 06 10:32:33 Oh my, I would never wish to imply it was relegated to Fox. Almost all MSM sources pull this shit. A couple random Twitter posters is always enough to grease the outrage machine.
Wrath of Orion Member	Mon Aug 06 10:33:33 And we all know how much Hack Rod goes in for manufactured outrage.
Hot Rod Revved Up	Mon Aug 06 10:45:31 I did not pull up the comments because they are merely a sidebar to the main story, The main story being the treatment of the fish as it is criticized in the main story. IMHO, the major aquariums take exceptional good care of the population. As for the fish being held in captivity, I've never heard a fish complain. Have you?
Wrath of Orion Member	Mon Aug 06 10:48:18 "I've never heard a fish complain. " Typical Retard Rod way of thinking to prop up his belief.
smart dude Member	Mon Aug 06 10:49:56 "I did not pull up the comments because they are merely a sidebar to the main story, The main story being the treatment of the fish as it is criticized in the main story. Nobody mentioned the comments. I referenced the main body of the article, in which three anonymous Twitter users are mentioned. Three anonymous Twitter posts that serve as the entire foundation of the whole article. Three anonymous Twitter posts on which you are hinging your outrage. You should read more carefully, buddy.
Hot Rod Revved Up	Mon Aug 06 11:01:05 You are correct. I misread your post.
smart dude Member	Mon Aug 06 11:04:44 Shocking!
Hot Rod Revved Up	Mon Aug 06 13:06:57 Fuck it. If you don't want my apology Then why should I bother?
smart dude Member	Mon Aug 06 13:10:55 You tell me.
smart dude Member	Mon Aug 06 13:11:22 Oh, by the way. There was no "apology." LOL. Fuckhead.
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