uh-oh, the first text to appear on this contra video is "catrapoints"
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okay this is just a video about cops? that's fine then, maybe this is fine
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oh whoops nope okay literal seconds after I hit the play button again she drew a parallel between the vigilantism of cops and twitter mobs "taking justice in their own hands and demanding accountability and consequences for bad behavior".
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lol okay yeah the left-wing hunger for retribution is exactly identical to the right-wing hunger, this is a normal thing to postulate
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she's literally mocking as inherently risible the idea of somebody wanting Amy Cooper to get a life sentence for *checks notes* attempting to murder a random Black man for asking her to use public property correctly I don't support the carceral state, but, uh.
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Like I don't think Cooper should have gotten life in prison either but I don't think it's stupid for the hate crime of attempted murder to be considered on the merits of exactly what it is
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oh okay the popularity of the Richard Spencer punching video is indicative of "a situational form of sadism", alright, yeah, because of course
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Contra is going full Margaret Atwood with her extreme level of emphasis on Odysseus executing his slaves for sleeping with Penelope's suitors, which... okay fine, that's the most fucked up moment in Homer, but where are you taking it
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I really don't think the point of this video is to have a specific hot take on a specific political question today, she's doing a deep dive on the philosophy of crime and punishment
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