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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#288026: Aug 17th 2019 at 8:15:02 AM

Kelly, 46, attempted to explain herself, saying she heard a dog barking and the boys walking through the neighborhood. She said she feared for her safety after a prior home invasion. She gestured to the boys' skin and then her own, and said, "It ain't about that," according to the police report.

Bullshit it wasn't about that.

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#288027: Aug 17th 2019 at 8:16:16 AM

Of course it would be in Arkansas, the worse Kansas as they call it.

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#288028: Aug 17th 2019 at 8:18:18 AM

Sounds like the trauma of the previous home invasion has effected her judgement,or least thats how it's sounding to me,they should probably revoke her gun license if she has one

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#288029: Aug 17th 2019 at 8:18:58 AM

It's sobering that the only thing remotely surprising about this is that she actually got charged.

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#288030: Aug 17th 2019 at 8:19:47 AM

And no one died or was injured

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#288031: Aug 17th 2019 at 8:20:59 AM

I hope this doesn't enter Trump's Twitter feed. You just know he'd try to get involved and defend her.

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NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#288032: Aug 17th 2019 at 8:33:02 AM

Of course this happens in what I increasingly find myself calling "Fly Over and FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK DO NOT VISIT Country".

Considering we had a Republican defending rape and incest, its only a matter of time before one declares cannibalism a good tradition because something something yadda yadda MUH BIBBBLE.

It increasingly seems like Republicans just exist to create playgrounds for hate, evil and destruction in the name of their religious fervor.

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#288033: Aug 17th 2019 at 8:35:07 AM

The best part is how surprised she seems that she's actually being charged. I doubt the reality of her situation has sunk in even now.

Edited by M84 on Aug 17th 2019 at 11:35:18 PM

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#288034: Aug 17th 2019 at 8:44:16 AM

Union workers at a Shell plant in Pittsburgh were given the option of an excused unpaid day off, or being forced to stand for hours listening to Trump rant without lunch.

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#288035: Aug 17th 2019 at 8:44:57 AM

My question: upon realising what the fudge they got called into, why did the police allow Mrs Homecastle to lecture the boys and then request them to apologise for their behaviour towards her and the neighbourhood.

Instead of, say, cuffing her on the spot and taking the lads aside for some chocolate, comfort and maybe a precinct whipround for their team?

Edited by Euodiachloris on Aug 17th 2019 at 4:48:48 PM

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#288036: Aug 17th 2019 at 9:08:29 AM

The best part is how surprised she seems that she's actually being charged. I doubt the reality of her situation has sunk in even now.

Oh, I'm sure it has.

The reality of her situation is that she somehow bad-lucked into some of the few cops that would actually arrest White Lady for pointing a gun at black kids doing nothing wrong. However, before anything of serious consequence happens to her, she'll still need to bad-luck into a) a District Attorney willing to prosecute her case, b) a mostly-white jury of her peers willing to convict her, and c) an unsympathetic judge that applies a real sentence and not something like "Two hours community service, already served."

In Arkansas. It's nice that she was actually arrested, but I'm not holding my breath for anything more. So long as even a single one of those groups decides she didn't do anything wrong, she'll walk.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Aug 17th 2019 at 10:12:04 AM

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#288037: Aug 17th 2019 at 9:14:23 AM

Arkansas? *sigh* Yeah...

And here I am in Fayetteville, probably the most liberal area of the state, thinking I'm in some kind of blue oasis in a sea of red

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#288038: Aug 17th 2019 at 9:17:46 AM

...y'know, convicting a criminal is very much like catching a Pokemon, weirdly enough. When you catch a Pokemon, the game performs "Shake Checks". It pulls an RNG and then runs it through the formula to determine whether the Pokemon is caught or escapes. But the trick is that if the formula passes, it doesn't just win.

No, passing the first Shake Check means the ball shakes once. Then it pulls a new RNG and runs the formula again. Second Shake Check. Pass, the ball shakes and moves to the third Shake Check. Third RNG. Pass, the ball shakes and moves to the fourth Shake Check. Fourth RNG. Pass, the Pokemon is finally caught.

Failure at any Shake Check means the Pokemon escapes.

That's pretty much how the justice system works. This suspect passed her first Shake Check, but there are still a lot of opportunities for her to break free.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Aug 17th 2019 at 10:18:46 AM

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#288039: Aug 17th 2019 at 9:18:04 AM

[up][up][up][up]Because cops don't view black teens as teens but as adults need to know their place.

Edited by NoName999 on Aug 17th 2019 at 9:18:50 AM

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#288040: Aug 17th 2019 at 9:20:45 AM

Trump's basically a Version Legendary.

We've spent years trying to wear him down and applying all sorts of strategies to improve our odds, and he still breaks free at the first goddamn toss.

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#288041: Aug 17th 2019 at 9:21:01 AM

[up][up][up]It's part of that whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing. In theory the USA justice system is supposed to be such that the burden of proof is on the prosecutor.

Edited by M84 on Aug 18th 2019 at 12:21:53 AM

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#288042: Aug 17th 2019 at 9:23:49 AM

[up][up]I guess in that analogy, the different Poke Ball types would be different criminal accusations, and certain accusations are stronger than others depending on the situation, time of day, and what Type the person being charged is.

Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Aug 17th 2019 at 9:24:19 AM

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
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#288043: Aug 17th 2019 at 9:25:49 AM

There's no equivalent to a Master Ball of course. And tbh, that's a good thing. We don't want there to be any surefire 100% successful method of sending a person to prison.

Trust me, we don't want our justice system to be more like, say, Japan's.

Edited by M84 on Aug 18th 2019 at 12:26:44 AM

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#288045: Aug 17th 2019 at 9:36:23 AM

Um, when did "gaslighting" become a synonym for "bald-faced lying"?

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#288046: Aug 17th 2019 at 9:41:55 AM

Well, to be fair, Gaslighting usually involves lying, though it shouldn't be synonymous with it. Gaslighting is manipulating someone into questioning their own sanity, memory, or perception. This is typically achieved by lying and insisting that they're remembering an event incorrectly.

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#288047: Aug 17th 2019 at 9:49:33 AM

Thing is, it is gaslighting. This memo mentions the El Paso and Gabby Giffords shootings as done by the left (which they obviously weren't), the shootings in Colorado (which I can't remember about those specifically), and the shooting at the Congressional baseball game (which you could technically consider that a shooting done by a left leaning person).

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#288048: Aug 17th 2019 at 10:11:50 AM

Yeah, this is gaslighting. The practice of gaslighting is using deceptions and outright lies to reshape a person's comprehension of reality.

Despite nearly all politically-motivated violence in the U.S. being the result of far-right extremism, Republicans are hoping that if they simply repeat the words "leftist violence" often enough, those words will become inseparably ingrained in the way people think about mass shootings.

Trump actually does this all the time. It's why he likes to come up with nicknames. If you repeat the words "Crooked Hillary" every time you talk about her, then people who listen to you will start instinctively calling her "Crooked Hillary" in their minds.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Aug 17th 2019 at 11:13:26 AM

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#288049: Aug 17th 2019 at 10:16:44 AM

And like a lot of lies, it will have the most impact on the people who want to believe them. Rightwingers will want to believe them because it feeds their persecution complex. "Independents" will want to believe them because it lets them go "bothsides" and thus avoid having to take a side while feeling superior. Really, anyone who doesn't want to face the reality that the USA has something of a white nationalist terrorism problem would be more inclined to lap up such a lie.

"Crooked Hillary" for example worked because the GOP already laid the groundwork for it years ago. A lot of people in the USA were so ready to believe the worst in Hillary Clinton.

Edited by M84 on Aug 18th 2019 at 1:18:10 AM

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#288050: Aug 17th 2019 at 10:20:35 AM

As if we needed more proof that the Republicans don't even believe their own bullshit.


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