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Running racism in America thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Scout, May 26, 2020.

  1. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    If you enter "deserved to die" into the Twitter search box, you'll get plenty of returns like this



    and provocative thinking from brain giants like


     
  2. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    So am I a pedophile apologist?
     
  3. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    I guess that whole "thou shalt not kill" thing was only a recommendation and not a commandment.
     
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  4. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    George Carlin did a whole routine on how it's negotiable.
     
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  5. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    An insult to clown shows:

     
  6. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    All lives matter.
     
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  7. Webster

    Webster Well-Known Member

    That is just so strange. It’s not a game and there should be every appearance of neutrality.
     
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  8. OscarMadison

    OscarMadison Well-Known Member

    Really? We're going to go there about child sexual abuse? Rosenbaum shouldn't have died at the hands of Porky Piglet, but I could probably put one between his eyes and then go get a bowl of vegan pho in East Nasty without an elevation of my heartbeat until the peppers kicked in. Yeah, yeah, he did his time and all that horseshit. The people he raped will most likely be doing their time for being in the wrong place at the wrong time for the rest of their lives. I spent too many years cleaning up the messes people like him make. Those motherfuckers cannot be rehabilitated.

    I used a pen name because I didn't want a former patient coming across my real name and getting triggered. Rittenhouse and his mother are trash, as is anyone who kills for the hell of it, but don't try to mitigate his victim's criminal past.

    XOXO
    The Board's Vegan Hater
     
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  9. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    As I said before, if you want to say Rosenbaum should have received a longer sentence, maybe even life without parole or a state-sanctioned execution, I'll listen to that argument. I may even agree with it. It's a very serious crime, perhaps in the top two.

    If he re-offended, he should probably have spent the rest of his life in prison.

    In this case, Rosenbaum's criminal history is irrelevant. It doesn't make his murder justifiable nor is it a mitigating factor. In fact, if Rittenhouse knew about it, that would be premeditation.

    It's not karma. It's not justice that the state was unwilling or unable to provide for his victims. It's murder. He is the victim.
     
    Last edited: Nov 16, 2021
  10. TrooperBari

    TrooperBari Well-Known Member

    In case anyone would like to read the jury instructions for themselves:
     
  11. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    The conduct of the Republic requires us to hold two powerful thoughts in opposition.

    1. Rosenbaum was a monster.

    2. It was wrong for Rittenhouse to kill him.
     
  12. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Tough one ...
     
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