The prosecutor just asked him if he was inspired by “first person shooter videogames” where “the objective is to kill as many people as possible”

He’s 100% getting away with it.

:agony-consuming:

EDIT: his testimony continues, new link here: https://youtu.be/YfrUopNUSIk

EDIT 2: The judge just denied the admission of a key prosecution video exhibit because "pinching and zooming on an ipad inserts extra pixels" and he won't allow the exhibit unless the prosecution can find an expert witness to testify that it won't corrupt the image. He's given him 20 minutes to find such a witness

  • InternetLefty [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I've been seeing a lot of posts on the left side of social media and even here that border on defending Rittenhouses actions, stating that he was only acting in self defense or further diluting his actions or allowing him the benefit of the doubt.

    Can we just unequivocally say, right now, that Kyle Rittenhouse is a fascist white supremacist and his actions on that day last summer were indefensible because he intended and still intends to uphold capitalism-imperialism through the violent oppression of ethnic minorities? Does anyone actually disagree with this? Let's just get on the same page here.

      • MasterShakeVoice [undecided]
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        edit-2
        3 years ago

        :this:

        this kid is the spectacle; he's the process of going from burning down police stations to arguing about statues. if a judge sentenced him to 99 years of gulag and socialist reeducation, would that be a victory?

        don't mix up the signifier and the signified

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      He is absolutely indefensible and all who do can share the wall with him as far as I'm concerned.

      • cawsby [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Are there no ditches to be dug or train tracks to be laid?

        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          Like I'd make the ditch diggers and train guys have to work anywhere near these weirdos.

    • johnbrown1917 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I’ve been seeing a lot of posts on the left side of social media

      Soc dems are horrible for a reason.

    • DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I agree with everything you’re saying, but who on the left has defended Rittenhouse? Even most normie libs I know think he’s a wannabe Klansman who should rot.

    • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I’ve been seeing a lot of posts on the left side of social media and even here that border on defending Rittenhouses actions, stating that he was only acting in self defense or further diluting his actions or allowing him the benefit of the doubt.

      crossing state lines to attend a protest seems premeditated as fuck.

      • InternetLefty [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        This is another argument that people are making, that you can't for some reason accept the premise that a group of people are bad because they "disagree with you". Yes... That is certainly what we ought to do. When the other group of people are those that believe that black and brown and poor working people should be ground into a paste, it is our moral imperitive to oppose them. It's one of the most liberal ideology-poisoned arguments of all. Drives me insane!