To Be A Coward

Mik · H Horace 10 Dec 2024, 22:00

@Horace said in To Be A Coward:

I hope those of you who identify as white will take his words to heart.

Fucking Wisconsin Hispanics.

George K · wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 01:38

@jon-nyc said in To Be A Coward:

Hate-read the whole thread.

Yeah. Facts tend to be stubborn.

George K · wrote on 11 Dec 2024, 01:50

Apparently, someone IN THE COURTROOM threatened to kill Penny.

Horace · 11 Dec 2024, 21:19

No commentator I've heard on this case can come up with a reasonable explanation for why a jury could be hung on the more severe charge but unanimously not-guilty on the charge with a lower standard of proof. Of course, the juror(s) who wanted guilty on Manslaughter might have just been sick of deliberating, or got emotional or petulant for whatever reason, but there's no logic to this otherwise.

LuFins Dad · H Horace 11 Dec 2024, 21:11

@Horace said in To Be A Coward:

No commentator I've heard on this case can come up with a reasonable explanation for why a jury could be hung on the more severe charge but unanimously not-guilty on the charge with a lower standard of proof. Of course, the juror(s) who wanted guilty on Manslaughter might have just been sick of deliberating, or got emotional or petulant for whatever reason, but there's no logic to this otherwise.

I meant to answer this earlier. If there was a lone wolf or two in the room pushing for conviction, they may have realized it was a lost cause. Especially after going home for the weekend, getting out of the deliberations for a few days… It’s also very possible that they heard from family or saw enough news to make them reconsider.

Of course, it’s most likely that they came to the conclusion that if they didn’t vote to acquit, then those filthy white supremacists on the jury would leak their info to other white supremacists and they would be in danger, and for no good reason since Penny would never serve time in jail.

George K · wrote on 12 Dec 2024, 01:23

@jon-nyc said in To Be A Coward:

Hate-read the whole thread.

I’m glad I had the opportunity to vote against him three times. Third one took.

Sorry...but I have to ask: Why did you vote against DOCTOR Bowman?

jon-nyc · wrote on 12 Dec 2024, 02:06

In the primaries because there was always someone better (never someone worse) and in the general to make a statement knowing it was futile.

taiwan_girl · wrote on 12 Dec 2024, 18:22

Everybodies favorite congressman.

Horace · wrote on 12 Dec 2024, 18:36

AOC won't feel safe until Daniel Penny is in prison.

jon-nyc · wrote on 13 Dec 2024, 00:23

She knows in her heart of hearts that had she been in that subway car that day she would have felt profound relief when a strong young man took down the crazy.

I’ve seen the crazy. Everyone who rides (or in my case rode) the subway regularly eventually does. It’s pretty scary, because you ultimately don’t know what kind of weapon the guy has but you do know he’s not at all bound by civility, sanity, or even self preservation.

Jolly · wrote on 13 Dec 2024, 00:50

Something almost ubiquitous among victims of a violent attack... " I never thought he/she would do that".

Horace · wrote on 13 Dec 2024, 00:59

Progressive females painting themselves into a corner is a thing, too. The general advice is to trust their instincts in all things involving personal safety, but they really can't, if their instinct might be slightly tinged by what a stranger looks like. I recall the lady a couple years ago who held her apartment complex security door open for the scruffy looking black guy, then rode the elevator up with him, where he killed her.

Horace · wrote on 13 Dec 2024, 05:32

So I looked up that story about the progressive white woman who opened the security door for the scruffy looking black guy. Found her name and googled it + “ Reddit”. Yep first discussion is about how women need to trust their instincts even if it makes them feel racist.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/s/8j4K3of9NC

This story has always stuck with me because it’s such a striking example of a progressive female shaming herself to death.

jon-nyc · wrote on 13 Dec 2024, 11:57

I’m either misremembering one detail or there’s another story like that that happened in NYC some years ago.

LuFins Dad · wrote on 13 Dec 2024, 12:45

I believe the story @Horace is talking about took place in Baltimore.

And come on, if AOC had been on that subway train with Neely and Penny, she totally would have “rewarded” Penny, and directly in front of her milquetoast boyfriend or fiancé.