• AssaultRifle15 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This is the correct take. Derek Chauvin slowly tortured a man to death on film and the only reason he faced any consequences whatsoever is because there were intense sustained protests across the entire country for months. You already know what the outcome of this case is going to be, don't try to fool yourself into thinking a fascist failed state is going to do anything to punish its newest poster child.

    • RedundantClam [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah I was thinking yesterday about the guy that testified that he pointed a gun at Rittenhouse before being shot by him. This was after Rittenhouse had already shot 2 others I think.

      Had he pulled the trigger, he would either have been killed that night by the cops or other Chuds, or would be getting the book thrown at him at trial.

    • doubleimps [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Kyle Rittenhouse literally murdered people. He travelled across the country to get to murder people. He set out, deliberately, with the sole intention of getting to kill people. Why the fuck are you acting aloof about this? This is the right saying that they will murder you, and they will get away with it. They're telling you, to your face, that they will kill you. This is the moment where the conservatives sent the canes to Preston Brooks. It matters.

      • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Why the fuck are you acting aloof about this? This is the right saying that they will murder you, and they will get away with it.

        If you're black you've already known this since you were old enough to know what murder is.

        • doubleimps [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I cannot stress how much of a total misdirection that statement is. Systematic racism does not make this less of a total miscarriage of justice. More than one thing can be bad.

          • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            No one's saying that it is just. It's just that if every great injustice incites you to rage, you will feel nothing but rage at any given moment. I don't have that kind of energy. It is difficult to get angry at one or two murders when the mass shootings and school shootings are so mundane that the news doesn't even report them anymore.

            • doubleimps [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              Every great injustice SHOULD make you rage. And in this case the world is telling you that they will murder you. Murder is justified against you and yours. They are declaring open season on you, and rather than reacting appropriately we're just pretending we're too fucking cool to care about that.

              That's a dumb fucking take, and you should frankly be ashamed of it.

              • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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                3 years ago

                rather than reacting appropriately we’re just pretending we’re too fucking cool to care about that.

                The appropriate reaction is to organize a popular movement of communists to overthrow the government, and that hasn't changed for the past 100 years. Rage is pointless and exhausting. Being angry isn't going to change a thing.

                :bloomer:

                • doubleimps [he/him]
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                  3 years ago

                  Now on one hand we have every single communist in world history saying that anger is good and matters, caring is good and that we can't afford to give up on a single thing. On the other hand we have the internet poster who thinks it's lame to care.

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

      I honestly thought that because he’s just some shithead kid and not a cop that he’d be found guilty. I really managed to underestimate how much this place fucking sucks.

      • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        George Zimmerman wasn't even close to being a cop even if he wishes he was, and he got off.