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

    KR walking is going to set a really fucking dangerous precedent. It's going to embolden the chuds to really go to protests armed looking for an excuse to kill.

    • SaniFlush [any, any]
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      3 years ago

      I wonder how much the average white moderate can take before they drop their politeness fetish and admit the terrorists are terrorists. Of course, that would require ceasing to be a moderate.

      • Alex_Jones [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        They'll get mad at the victims, as usual.

        "Why are they going to the protest where they know there are gunmen? They should just go to brunch and stop talking about it."

        • SaniFlush [any, any]
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          3 years ago

          Yes, that's what I said. I'm wondering what their breaking point is. When does it become THEIR problem? What would be the equivalent of an oil tanker spilling directly into the Exxon CEO's boardroom?

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      KR walking is going to set a really fucking dangerous precedent.

      It's been a mixed bag, what with Derek Chauvin getting 22 years for Floyd's death. There doesn't seem to be any kind of firm precedent. It's just a question of who you get as a lawyer, how badly you perform on the witness stand, which media-backed partisan group gets behind your cause, and how zealous the local DA feels in a given moment.

      It’s going to embolden the chuds to really go to protests armed looking for an excuse to kill.

      Maybe. But I don't see them demonstrating exceptional shyness prior to this incident. Rittenhouse was as much the product of radicalization as the source of it. If he walks, all I'm really going to take from the story is that when you have a guy on the ground with a gun, don't stop hitting him until he stops moving.