Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?
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wrote on 20 Nov 2021, 19:28 last edited by
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:
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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
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@george-k said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
As if you needed another reason to hate the NBA:
It is literally his job to regurgitate pop culture leftism.
The company I work for employs someone in that position, too. "Diversity and Inclusion Director". Only they're not just public relations, they contribute to HR policy. Most companies employ someone like that, or have entire groups devoted to that.
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wrote on 20 Nov 2021, 20:31 last edited by
Known as a Political Officer
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I've seriously lost all hope for this country.
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I've seriously lost all hope for this country.
wrote on 20 Nov 2021, 20:33 last edited by@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.
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wrote on 20 Nov 2021, 21:50 last edited by George K
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Yeah, but the right is like a cult of Trump, built on lies and insanity. Same both ways.
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wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 00:01 last edited by
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.
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wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 02:08 last edited by
So do we get to call of these idiots "Trial Deniers, Insurrectionists, and the greatest existential threat to the rule of law"?
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wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 02:26 last edited by
And we have our winner! Thank you for competing, everyone!
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kyle-rittenhouse-just-killed-our-right-to-peacefully-protest
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wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 02:30 last edited by
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
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So do we get to call of these idiots "Trial Deniers, Insurrectionists, and the greatest existential threat to the rule of law"?
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 02:37 last edited by@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.
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@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.
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 02:38 last edited by@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.
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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
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 02:42 last edited by 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.”
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@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.”
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 02:51 last edited by@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.
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@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.
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 03:03 last edited by@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.