posted November 16, 2021 11:20 PM            

He would be dead.

They were hitting him with blunt objects. They were chasing after him when he tried to get away. One of the men were telling kyle that they were going to kill him.

How would you feel if he didn’t shoot, and he were dead right now. Because that is the inevitable outcome. He would be dead.

Would you sit in satisfaction knowing Antifa murdered a teenage boy?

posted November 16, 2021 11:22 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
People who got their “facts” from fake news are in shock when they learn from the trial that all that reporting was wrong. Many even thought the “victims” were Black. It seems that teasel only sees bits and pieces from her trusted CNN. Once Rittenhouse is free, he is going to be rich from defamation suits where the media called him a white supremacist.

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posted November 17, 2021 06:07 AM            

Big surprise. 🙄 he went with the “both sides” argument there, too.

http://time.com/5597843/central-park-five-trump-history/

He wanted the death penalty for them, but poor little ashley Babbitt thought she could get away with insurrection. Because she was a Trump supporter, and white. That Jenna woman actually said that she was white and had a great job, so she wouldn’t be going to prison.

posted November 17, 2021 07:09 AM            

In our times, an American political party is calling for:

A state religion

Rejection of elections they don’t like

Burning books

Defiance of Congressional subpoenas

Encouraging violent attacks on Congress &

Cheering vigilante assassinations

posted November 17, 2021 07:02 PM            

Regardless whether or not Floyd died from drugs or asphyxiation (although I'm sure it was a little of both) doesn't really matter in that case. It was more about Chauvin's actions. So 4 policemen who are supposedly trained to specifically handle a situation such as that can't even do that. They have no business supposedly putting on a badge(at least not chauvin.. I don't agree so much that the other 3 have to have the same sentence...specially not Kane. I kinda feel bad for that guy)
Chauvin could have handled that a million different ways and he picked the stupidest way possible. After a few moments of that Floyd was scared and in that state he would have more than likely been subdued. Then what? He's already handcuffed on the f-ing ground for Christ's sake. Okay so have 2 officers sit on his legs so the dude cannot move. Someone that stupid shouldn't even cross the street by themselves let alone be trusted to uphold the law. And I understand Floyd may have very well died from overdose anyway but at least there would be no doubts about how he died. Chauvin's dumb*** wouldn't be in jail & we would probably have no Rittenhouse trial.

But Rittenhouse on the other hand is a completely separate incident. He definitely does not deserve to be convicted & I really hope he isn't. Everything points to self defense & not that it matters in the court of law, but who did he kill? A kiddie-diddler and some lunatic who threatened to gut his own brother & grandma with a knife. I say, nice shot, son! 👍 that is poetic justice right there & he honestly couldn't have hit more deserving people. If anything he made the world just a little bit better.

The lesson here should be to just avoid riots all together. Honestly @ this point if you are out there doing that **** you deserve whatever you get. There is a huge difference between rioting and protesting.

posted November 19, 2021 01:14 AM            

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Chauvin could have handled that a million different ways and he picked the stupidest way possible. After a few moments of that Floyd was scared and in that state he would have more than likely been subdued. Then what? He's already handcuffed on the f-ing ground for Christ's sake. Okay so have 2 officers sit on his legs so the dude cannot move. Someone that stupid shouldn't even cross the street by themselves let alone be trusted to uphold the law. And I understand Floyd may have very well died from overdose anyway but at least there would be no doubts about how he died. Chauvin's dumb*** wouldn't be in jail & we would probably have no Rittenhouse trial.

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You haven’t seen the video have you? Or at least not the full video. Floyd was placed in the cop car. He was fidgeting around and saying he couldn’t breathe before he was ever put on the ground. The ONLY reason that he was removed from the cop car was because he was begging to be let out “to stand” Chauvin recognized that something was wrong, he called the medic, floyd moved to the ground and chauvin stood above him. Should he have placed his knee on his back? Probably not.

posted November 19, 2021 01:17 AM            

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But I still love the idea that you posted this, knowing that trump supporters lost their minds over the election, tried to stage a coup, and trumpers were looking forward to "the revolution".

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why is it that you can never focus on the topic at hand? bringing up trump for absolutely no reason. also, did you read anything i said to you earlier in this thread? please do, as it is vital to this case and i sincerely think it will open your eyes to what’s really happening here.

posted November 19, 2021 09:05 AM            

I was accused of being a biased liberal, who just wanted to see a white man found guilty. I was told that his wish that he expressed weeks before he killed two people - his wish to shoot people he assumed were stealing from a store - was nothing. They were just words, he didn't act on them. He waited a few weeks, and shot three entirely different people, in a different area, I should just let it go!

*insert me screaming into a pillow, and having an epsom salt bath, then taking something for my tension headache, that also had me feeling sick to my stomach, then going to sleep*

When I finally picked up my phone, this morning, I checked facebook. The third post down, after seeing a couple of eclipse pictures from friends, was a post asking that everyone pray for the children of our community. I clicked through to check the group, in the hopes of finding out what was wrong. Yesterday morning, there was apparently a swat team in one area, so I wondered if it was that. Nope: a middle school student, had said that he was going to take a gun to school, and shoot everyone.

There was a lot of hand-wringing, whilst others assured people that the police had investigated, and said that the threats were empty threats - no guns in or around his house. He was just venting. One other person finally mentioned something that has been on my mind: a lot of people in this area, whenever a problem (or potential problem) is posted, there are always recommendations that they "take care of it themselves". That they get a gun, or if they already have one, to use it. No matter what the problem is, a gun can solve everything. A few weeks ago, a woman had a pumpkin stolen, and she put out a threat that the next pumpkin thief would meet her 9mm. That's just one of the latest ones I've seen.

Now, here's a hypothetical for you, going along with what I said above: the one sticking point for me, being that he followed through on his wish to shoot people he believed were looting.

What if this middle school student does nothing at his school, but he did have a gun stashed away somewhere, and in a few weeks, he decided to go to a different school, and he followed through? Even if it was because other students saw him carrying, tried to disarm him, and they ended up being shot?

I'm sure you will say the two scenarios are not comparable. According to you, who scoff at the idea that the protests were mostly peaceful (even though they were). But they are comparable.

He chose to take a gun to a protest. He chose to be there with a deadly weapon. You all believe that he was terrified of a man with a skateboard, but you don't think that anyone there should have been terrified when they saw a young man with a gun? You don't think they would want to disarm someone who was carrying in a massive crowd?

posted November 19, 2021 01:02 PM            

One person also responded "locked and loaded" to the thank-you post to the police. yeah, locked and loaded to talk to a child, but Rittenhouse is a dream teenager - all the kudos to someone who said he wanted to shoot people.

They also haven't one said that it was "just words" and nothing to worry about. The same excuse being given for his wish that he expressed, before he actually killed people.