Jussie Smollett's trial

[Doctor Phibes]

@kluurs said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

@improviso said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

Or is he still free pending sentencing?

He's free until sentencing.

Let's hope he's not beating himself up too much over this.

[Improviso]

I'll text him the email address of the Nigerian prince that keeps emailing me.

[George K]

[Improviso]

It still amazes me that they keep jumping to the wrong conclusions, time and time again, instead of waiting for the facts to come out. And as now, crickets when the facts come to light.

<Larry> Liberalism is a mental disease <Larry>

[Horace]

It's just about the messaging impact. It actually doesn't matter too much if they're wrong, as long as the correct impression is left through the "narrative outrage->time->contradictory facts->memory hole" process. The indelible mark is the outrage, that is what leaves the impression on the masses. The white supremacists keeping everybody else down is the memory and the emotional truth. Thank your local progressive white women and feminized men, out to save the fucking world. Idiots.

[Improviso]

@horace said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

feminized men

[Doctor Phibes]

@improviso said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

@horace said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

feminized men

I'm pretty sure the guy on the left is a Soviet soldier

[George K]

[George K]

Kass:

Forgive me, but I’d rather not shut up about Jussie right now. Instead, I think we should thank him. Because by telling and retelling his lies in court, by perjuring himself before the jury and the judge, he’s actually done America a great service.

He exposes he fetid alchemy between the dying corporate legacy media and elite Democrats who used his mewing to stoke racial division for votes. These are the high priests of the new religion, and it sanctifies victimization for profit and power.

They falsely seized on Kyle Rittenhouse as a racist (he wasn’t) and Nicholas Sandman as a racist (he wasn’t) and many others. Without stoking racial strife, how would they motivate their voters?

Are there horrible people among us who are homophobes and racists? Yes, of course. Should they be punished if they violate another’s rights? Yes, of course.

Should the politicians and media that stoked this have known better than to buy his story and regurgitate it, screaming on media platform after media platform with their hair on fire? A reasonable person might think so.

But they didn’t care if they regurgitated a lie. They wanted to use Smollett. They didn’t care if he was lying. They weren’t worried about the damage it could cause, whether his fantastic story may have sparked racial violence in Chicago and elsewhere across the country.

They had their politics to worry about. They wanted outrage. They wanted votes. So, they used him. And he used them.

And now that Smollett has been exposed as a liar by a jury in Chicago, they’d much rather we move on, before we can explore this destructive alchemy of the media/political elite and the damage it has done.

[Improviso]

[Horace]

@george-k said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

Kass:

Forgive me, but I’d rather not shut up about Jussie right now. Instead, I think we should thank him. Because by telling and retelling his lies in court, by perjuring himself before the jury and the judge, he’s actually done America a great service.

He exposes he fetid alchemy between the dying corporate legacy media and elite Democrats who used his mewing to stoke racial division for votes. These are the high priests of the new religion, and it sanctifies victimization for profit and power.

They falsely seized on Kyle Rittenhouse as a racist (he wasn’t) and Nicholas Sandman as a racist (he wasn’t) and many others. Without stoking racial strife, how would they motivate their voters?

Are there horrible people among us who are homophobes and racists? Yes, of course. Should they be punished if they violate another’s rights? Yes, of course.

Should the politicians and media that stoked this have known better than to buy his story and regurgitate it, screaming on media platform after media platform with their hair on fire? A reasonable person might think so.

But they didn’t care if they regurgitated a lie. They wanted to use Smollett. They didn’t care if he was lying. They weren’t worried about the damage it could cause, whether his fantastic story may have sparked racial violence in Chicago and elsewhere across the country.

They had their politics to worry about. They wanted outrage. They wanted votes. So, they used him. And he used them.

And now that Smollett has been exposed as a liar by a jury in Chicago, they’d much rather we move on, before we can explore this destructive alchemy of the media/political elite and the damage it has done.

Yep, another person who gets it.

[Renauda]

@doctor-phibes said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

@improviso said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

@horace said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

feminized men

I'm pretty sure the guy on the left is a Soviet soldier

You may be pretty sure, but I am certain he is.

[Doctor Phibes]

@renauda said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

@doctor-phibes said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

@improviso said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

@horace said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

feminized men

I'm pretty sure the guy on the left is a Soviet soldier

You may pretty sure, but I am certain he is.

You’d think the people putting together these memes would at least learn a little history before they went off on their predictable pontifications about ‘ young people today…’

[George K]

LOL!

[Aqua Letifer]

@doctor-phibes said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

@renauda said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

@doctor-phibes said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

@improviso said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

@horace said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

feminized men

I'm pretty sure the guy on the left is a Soviet soldier

You may pretty sure, but I am certain he is.

You’d think the people putting together these memes would at least learn a little history before they went off on their predictable pontifications about ‘ young people today…’

Some folks share memes as pithy, semi-humorous commentary. Some folks, because that's the best they can do.

[Doctor Phibes]

@aqua-letifer said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

@doctor-phibes said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

@renauda said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

@doctor-phibes said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

@improviso said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

@horace said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

feminized men

I'm pretty sure the guy on the left is a Soviet soldier

You may pretty sure, but I am certain he is.

You’d think the people putting together these memes would at least learn a little history before they went off on their predictable pontifications about ‘ young people today…’

Some folks share memes as pithy, semi-humorous commentary. Some folks, because that's the best they can do.

The other great irony is that the people generating the memes had zero involvement with WW2, but frequently had plenty of involvement in raising the generation of people that they're now complaining so much about.

Also, the same people have been known to say that wearing a mask is fascism. Yeah, it's almost exactly like being sent to a death camp. Except without the camp. Or the death.

[George K]

Seen on Twitter: "When conservatives are wrong, that's the story. When liberals are wrong, how conservatives react is the story.

[jon-nyc]

[Mik]

lol

[George K]

City of Chicago: Pay up!

The investigation into Jussie Smollett's reported hate crime in 2019 cost the city of Chicago a pretty penny.

At the time, the actor reported to police that he was attacked by two men because of his identity as a gay Black man. On Thursday, he was found guilty of lying to police and staging the attack as a hoax.

After the "Empire" alum reported the attack, Chicago police launched an investigation into the incident that ultimately cost $130,000.

The massive price tag came from a thorough, 3,000-hour investigation that, in part, saw authorities comb through hundreds of hours of surveillance footage, none of which captured an attack on the actor.