Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?
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wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 12:53 last edited by
What POTUS news said:
In a longer statement issued by the White House a short time later, Biden said, "While the verdict in Kenosha will leave many Americans feeling angry and concerned, myself included, we must acknowledge that the jury has spoken."
He added that "I urge everyone to express their views peacefully, consistent with the rule of law. Violence and destruction of property have no place in our democracy."
He is ANGRY with the jury verdict? I guess he thinks they acted "stupidly."
Presumably he was pulled away from his warm milk and nap by his handlers and told what to say, because he would not have stayed awake long enough to watch the actual trial.
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wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 13:33 last edited by
Maybe be he should ask the AG to not certify the verdict? Oh, wait…
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wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 14:10 last edited by
He should just issue a mandate to all prosecutors.
Just show the skin color to the jury.
Case closed.
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wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 14:30 last edited by
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wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 14:37 last edited by
Tiffany Cross, MSNBC: “this little murderous white supremacist”
Look for the helpers…
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Tiffany Cross, MSNBC: “this little murderous white supremacist”
Look for the helpers…
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 14:45 last edited by@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
Tiffany Cross, MSNBC: “this little murderous white supremacist”
Look for the helpers…
That sound you hear? That's Nick Sandmann offering advice.
I wonder how strong a defamation case he has. I've read that he's allegedly a "public figure" so the bar is higher.
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wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 14:51 last edited by
A lawsuit doesn’t stop this degradation of the American Psyche. She’s saying it because most of her viewers believe it. A lawsuit isn’t going to stop that. And yes, Horace there are those on the right that are just as bad. I point to the two Reps offering Congressional Internships to Rittenhouse.
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wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 14:51 last edited by
This tribalism is about to destroy this whole frigging thing.
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wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 15:39 last edited by
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A lawsuit doesn’t stop this degradation of the American Psyche. She’s saying it because most of her viewers believe it. A lawsuit isn’t going to stop that. And yes, Horace there are those on the right that are just as bad. I point to the two Reps offering Congressional Internships to Rittenhouse.
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 15:41 last edited by@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
A lawsuit doesn’t stop this degradation of the American Psyche. She’s saying it because most of her viewers believe it. A lawsuit isn’t going to stop that. And yes, Horace there are those on the right that are just as bad. I point to the two Reps offering Congressional Internships to Rittenhouse.
An internship offer is as bad as an entire political establishment reinforcing the idea in the heads of the masses that the judicial branch of government is hopelessly rigged based on skin color?
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wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 15:46 last edited by
By the way, that "Dexter" pic is from a "friend" on FB.
I don't do politics there, so it took all my self-restraint to not say, "So, some vigilantes are good?"
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This tribalism is about to destroy this whole frigging thing.
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 16:11 last edited by@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
This tribalism is about to destroy this whole frigging thing.
It's not as much tribalism as media sensationalism. They want eyeballs, Truth be damned.
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@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
This tribalism is about to destroy this whole frigging thing.
It's not as much tribalism as media sensationalism. They want eyeballs, Truth be damned.
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 16:22 last edited by@jolly said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
This tribalism is about to destroy this whole frigging thing.
It's not as much tribalism as media sensationalism. They want eyeballs, Truth be damned.
Well the mayhem they're going to cause is going to lead to an assload of ratings for the short period of time that we continue to have an infrastructure.
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@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
This tribalism is about to destroy this whole frigging thing.
It's not as much tribalism as media sensationalism. They want eyeballs, Truth be damned.
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 16:29 last edited by Doctor Phibes@jolly said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
This tribalism is about to destroy this whole frigging thing.
It's not as much tribalism as media sensationalism. They want eyeballs, Truth be damned.
At the danger of repeating myself once again, the US needs to tighten up the laws regarding the reporting of criminal cases.
Journalists who attempt to follow a juror home should go to jail.
Taking cameras out of the court room wouldn’t hurt, either. The media and a lot of the public are treating this like reality TV.
Complaining isn’t going to fix this.
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wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 16:35 last edited by
It seems unrealistic to think anything is going to “fix” this. The left is content to be overtly tribal in the service of their full stop stance against racism, and the right has a choice to join them so that all their acquaintances know they are not racist, or continue to side politically with the right while being not racist but thought of as such. At least it beats joining them.
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It seems unrealistic to think anything is going to “fix” this. The left is content to be overtly tribal in the service of their full stop stance against racism, and the right has a choice to join them so that all their acquaintances know they are not racist, or continue to side politically with the right while being not racist but thought of as such. At least it beats joining them.
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 16:41 last edited by@horace said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
It seems unrealistic to think anything is going to “fix” this. The left is content to be overtly tribal in the service of their full stop stance against racism, and the right has a choice to join them so that all their acquaintances know they are not racist, or continue to side politically with the right while being not racist but thought of as such. At least it beats joining them.
The end result is actual racism.
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wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 16:48 last edited by
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@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
This tribalism is about to destroy this whole frigging thing.
It's not as much tribalism as media sensationalism. They want eyeballs, Truth be damned.
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 16:49 last edited by@jolly said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
This tribalism is about to destroy this whole frigging thing.
It's not as much tribalism as media sensationalism. They want eyeballs, Truth be damned.
And that is the truth.
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@horace said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
It seems unrealistic to think anything is going to “fix” this. The left is content to be overtly tribal in the service of their full stop stance against racism, and the right has a choice to join them so that all their acquaintances know they are not racist, or continue to side politically with the right while being not racist but thought of as such. At least it beats joining them.
The end result is actual racism.
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 17:08 last edited by@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@horace said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
It seems unrealistic to think anything is going to “fix” this. The left is content to be overtly tribal in the service of their full stop stance against racism, and the right has a choice to join them so that all their acquaintances know they are not racist, or continue to side politically with the right while being not racist but thought of as such. At least it beats joining them.
The end result is actual racism.
Yup. McWhorter wrote a book about it. The ideas therein are our best hope at shaming the masses of indoctrinated idiots away from their indoctrination.
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@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
This tribalism is about to destroy this whole frigging thing.
It's not as much tribalism as media sensationalism. They want eyeballs, Truth be damned.
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 17:37 last edited by@jolly said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
This tribalism is about to destroy this whole frigging thing.
It's not as much tribalism as media sensationalism. They want eyeballs, Truth be damned.
A train wreck might get some eyeballs, but train wrecks don't make people feel good about themselves, unless they can somehow blame their tribe's enemy for it. The eyeballs are attracted to corporate media mostly because the media is in service of the tribalism. And tribalism is effective because it relates directly to meaning in a person's life. It reinforces their belief that they are on right side of history.
