Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?

[George K]

Yesterday's WSJ:

A jury on Friday acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager charged with killing two people during unrest last year, after 3½ days of deliberations in a highly watched case that turned on whether the teen had acted in self-defense.

Mr. Rittenhouse, now 18 years old, faced charges of intentional, reckless and attempted homicide, and reckless endangerment. The case revolved around his actions the night of Aug. 25, 2020, as he patrolled the city with an AR-15-style rifle and a small medical kit amid unrest following the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

And screen capped so it doesn't go away:

[George K]

As if you needed another reason to hate the NBA:

[LuFins Dad]

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

[Horace]

[Copper]

Known as a Political Officer

[LuFins Dad]

I've seriously lost all hope for this country.

[Horace]

@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:

I've seriously lost all hope for this country.

Yep. Humans are programmable and our programming has inexorably been fvcked away from the good ideas of the founders.

[George K]

Tulsi:

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Also Tulsi:

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More Tulsi:

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As I've said, I'll disagree with most of her politics, but she is a woman with whom I could sit and enjoy a beer (or in a fantasy something else).

[George K]

[George K]

Nursing home patients' stains were left on the sheets.

[Horace]

Yeah, but the right is like a cult of Trump, built on lies and insanity. Same both ways.

[Larry]

There k8d shot and killed a pedophile convicted on 11 cou ts of molesting 5 little boys. Give him a fucking medal, and tell Cuomo to kiss your ass.

[LuFins Dad]

So do we get to call of these idiots "Trial Deniers, Insurrectionists, and the greatest existential threat to the rule of law"?

[LuFins Dad]

And we have our winner! Thank you for competing, everyone!

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kyle-rittenhouse-just-killed-our-right-to-peacefully-protest

[LuFins Dad]

Some runner ups:

Trial By Jury Denier - https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/after-kyle-rittenhouse-trial-biden-still-thinks-jury-system-works-ncna1284295

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/20/opinions/kyle-rittenhouse-acquitted-rodgers/index.html

https://news.yahoo.com/opinion-rittenhouse-verdict-shows-were-154201530.html

[Aqua Letifer]

@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:

So do we get to call of these idiots "Trial Deniers, Insurrectionists, and the greatest existential threat to the rule of law"?

Yes. Absolutely.

Jan 6 participants were dabbling with eroding our election process, but I'll allow that most of them got caught up in some unplanned bullshit and didn't really have any organization.

This is more subtle in that no gates are being stormed, but we're honestly talking about the righteousness of exposing jurors to dangerous fanatics, circumventing a court decision, and attacking a defendant because the moral mob didn't like what happened. What are the odds this kid can go to school? Get a job? Not get shot in public? This shit is worse in terms of the damage it's doing to civil society. It's easily worse.

[Horace]

@aqua-letifer said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:

@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:

So do we get to call of these idiots "Trial Deniers, Insurrectionists, and the greatest existential threat to the rule of law"?

Yes. Absolutely.

Jan 6 participants were dabbling with eroding our election process, but I'll allow that most of them got caught up in some unplanned bullshit and didn't really have any organization.

This is more subtle in that no gates are being stormed, but we're honestly talking about the righteousness of exposing jurors to dangerous fanatics, circumventing a court decision, and attacking a defendant because the moral mob didn't like what happened. What are the odds this kid can go to school? Get a job? Not get shot in public? This shit is worse in terms of the damage it's doing to civil society. It's easily worse.

[George K]

@lufins-dad wow…

“ The same people who lecture us endlessly about the need to support the system and not question the results of elections lest we imperil democracy were quick to throw the concepts of trial by jury and innocent until proven guilty under the bus.”

[Horace]

@george-k said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:

@lufins-dad wow…

“ The same people who lecture us endlessly about the need to support the system and not question the results of elections lest we imperil democracy were quick to throw the concepts of trial by jury and innocent until proven guilty under the bus.”

This is what the emotion of righteousness does to the human psyche.

[Mik]

@aqua-letifer said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:

@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:

So do we get to call of these idiots "Trial Deniers, Insurrectionists, and the greatest existential threat to the rule of law"?

Yes. Absolutely.

Jan 6 participants were dabbling with eroding our election process, but I'll allow that most of them got caught up in some unplanned bullshit and didn't really have any organization.

This is more subtle in that no gates are being stormed, but we're honestly talking about the righteousness of exposing jurors to dangerous fanatics, circumventing a court decision, and attacking a defendant because the moral mob didn't like what happened. What are the odds this kid can go to school? Get a job? Not get shot in public? This shit is worse in terms of the damage it's doing to civil society. It's easily worse.

Absolutely. Much worse.