I took a brief break to watch this Rittenhouse testimony, and it fills me with indescribable rage.
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I am not a criminal lawyer. I am sure people are right that it's risky for him to testify. But our leaders abandoned this kid's community to lawless thug rioters, and he did something about it, and now a lawless thug prosecutor is trying to destroy his life.
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I just watched a boy recount an act of offensive violence committed against him, and break down in tears. Everyone, from the "journalists" who condoned this violence to the president of the United States who called this kid a white supremacist, is culpable for this.
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We leave our boys without fathers. We let the wolves set fire to their communities. And when human nature tells them to go and defend what no one else is defending, we bring the full weight of the state and the global monopolists against them.
when you say "global monopolists" do you mean what I'm pretty sure you mean
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This boy was motivated by faux narratives telling him that guns = manhood and was failed by adult men who, instead of sending him home where he belonged, exploited him for their own fantasies of being the righteous hammer of violent justice.
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You are a man when you stand up and assert yourself in the world. By 17 I was a father, lived outside my parents homes, and was actively drilling in my Army unit. It’s our nation’s failing that he felt the need to take to the streets armed.
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Referring to humans as other animals is a classic step toward endorsing genocide. You think Rittenhouse is forgiven for murder but others are not forgiven for being at a protest, unarmed, or even rioting themselves? Why can't you empathize with them?
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