Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?
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Maybe be he should ask the AG to not certify the verdict? Oh, wait…
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Tiffany Cross, MSNBC: “this little murderous white supremacist”
Look for the helpers…
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@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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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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This tribalism is about to destroy this whole frigging thing.
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@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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@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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@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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@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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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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@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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@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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@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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@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.
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@mik said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@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.
But they apply the tribal spin to get those eyeballs. If we were better viewers and consumers of media, we wouldn’t be in this situation and the media wouldn’t be as bad as it is.
And that does apply to both sides. One side may be more extreme about it, but that doesn’t absolve the other.