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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 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.
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
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
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub....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
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.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.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.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
Disgusted, but not surprisedWell, 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.
Leviticus 19:34Thing 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).
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."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
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.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
Disgusted, but not surprised

Bullshit it wasn't about that.
Disgusted, but not surprised