Not trying to downplay this case but isn't it kinda bonkers just how televised this entire case has been? Like, this is a real life tv show. Who fucking even cares this much about this case when we've had like a dozen police murders in the past month alone. Like wtf? Am i just missing something?
Yeah of course and I don't want to downplay that. But like, it kinda loses a lot of it when there've been so many fucking shootings and deaths since then. Like, the symbolic meaning kinda becomes just empty or hollow with minimal impact. Like voting Biden. But maybe I'm just cynical.
Yeah I mean there’s been like several other “Derek chauvins” that won’t see one iota of this attention and that’s something to remember and consider even if it slaps that they actually put this one away
Yeah I’ve been steeling myself against an acquittal by saying either way this will almost certainly not prevent people from dying by police in the cruelest ways imaginable this summer. And it’s still true, but it’s good to see something happen.
This tells us burning down precincts is not adventurism. If only this was more clear/understood and could finally silence the liberal non-violence purists.
Not trying to downplay this case but isn't it kinda bonkers just how televised this entire case has been? Like, this is a real life tv show. Who fucking even cares this much about this case when we've had like a dozen police murders in the past month alone. Like wtf? Am i just missing something?
Don't you see! If he's found guilty that means the system works!
This. It's being put on blast to make the protestors look bad. That way the system can dust it's hands off and say, welp justice was served 😤
Yep, his department sacrificed his ass to save their own.
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This case is imbued with a great deal of symbolic meaning.
Yeah of course and I don't want to downplay that. But like, it kinda loses a lot of it when there've been so many fucking shootings and deaths since then. Like, the symbolic meaning kinda becomes just empty or hollow with minimal impact. Like voting Biden. But maybe I'm just cynical.
Yeah I mean there’s been like several other “Derek chauvins” that won’t see one iota of this attention and that’s something to remember and consider even if it slaps that they actually put this one away
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Fair enough.
The one with the mom that got off scott free and oJ before your time?
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I just meant in terms of scale/popular attention. I'd say both those cases soaked up about as much media attention.
this is just what a big trial is like. The olds among us will remember OJ and many other 90s era cases that were very big
Was this trial bigger than OJ? that's the only one I know was very big.
OJ was much more omnipresent. It spawned an incredible amount of culture and proto-memes
One word: Spectacle
Yeah I’ve been steeling myself against an acquittal by saying either way this will almost certainly not prevent people from dying by police in the cruelest ways imaginable this summer. And it’s still true, but it’s good to see something happen.
This tells us burning down precincts is not adventurism. If only this was more clear/understood and could finally silence the liberal non-violence purists.