Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?
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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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I've seriously lost all hope for this country.
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I've seriously lost all hope for this country.
@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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So do we get to call of these idiots "Trial Deniers, Insurrectionists, and the greatest existential threat to the rule of law"?
The Brad
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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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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
The Brad
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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"?
@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.
Please love yourself.
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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.
@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
@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.”
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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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.”
@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.
@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.
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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.”
@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.”
You think the two mind-sets are unconnected?
It takes two to tango. Trump and AOC have more in common than their supporters would admit.
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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.
