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predicto posted:Yep. It's a rorschach test for me too.
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mystes posted:What are you taking about. After the alleged attack the police arrested them, released them, and temporarily put them up in a hotel because they were important witnesses for the case. It's really not that weird. I know that now. I misread it as meaning (maybe hoping?) that it was something more significant than that. Some people still think it is significant, I guess.
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mystes posted:What are you taking about. After the alleged attack the police arrested them, released them, and temporarily put them up in a hotel because they were important witnesses for the case. It's really not that weird.
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Charlz Guybon posted:I had the same reaction as predicto when I read the headline and was similarly unimpressed when I read the actual article. I mean, they made it out to be important by making it a headline and devoting a whole article to it. It was absolutely the deceptive clickbait garbage it was called out to be that sparked all this debate.
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Mar 29, 2019 01:36
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ITT: Goons somehow being surprised that a news story tweet is clickbait.
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nevermind, I'm a derail machine today moving on... predicto fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Mar 29, 2019 |
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Mar 29, 2019 01:43
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The thing that prompted the article in the first place was the cops complaining about how much money they spent on the investigation.
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predicto posted:That's not what I asked. And yet, there's still enough information there to infer an answer.
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sexpig by night posted:Cops don't...do that. Especially when the issue they're avoiding is 'media' and not 'mob hit-men'. What the cops are saying is that, after these two brothers confessed to entering into a criminal conspiracy to assault Smollett, and temporarily fled the country (before returning for some reason. Why? Who knows!) they then let them not only walk free from the police station without any charges being laid against them, but also paid for hotel rooms with 24 hour security and sent officers out multiple times per day to buy meals for them. And did so for nearly a week. predicto posted:But I don't know what actually happened...And neither do any of the other posters in this thread who are confidently claiming that they do know. Right now this thing is nothing but a Rorschach test, where people can believe whatever they want. Dude, the cops released all their files on the case several days ago. They're available for anyone to read, so why don't you. I've read them and there was not one thing in any of the reports which constituted evidence against Smollett, beyond the testimony of the brothers. So, when we hear about the cops going out of their way to set them up in a hotel, play Meals On Wheels for them, pay for 24hour a day security and chauffeur them around, we should definitely be looking that that and saying, 'why?'. You're right that this is a Rorschach test. But one where the answer people are falling over themselves to give is 'I'm not racist, but' which can't be easy to say with their tongues stuck to cop boot. Please think of the poor Chicago police force. They're had such a hard time getting convictions since their illegal black site where they tortured confessions out of innocent people was shut down, and now they've lost this one, too. Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 11:22 on Mar 29, 2019 |
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Mar 29, 2019 11:18
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Please think of the poor Chicago police force. They're had such a hard time getting convictions since their illegal black site where they tortured confessions out of innocent people was shut down, and now they've lost this one, too. If they don't get that money back, how are they going to afford to pay 17 officers to raid a 4 year old's birthday party and the peroxide they need to pour on presents??? https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/03/26/birthday-party-raid-cpd-lawsuit/ It's fine, though, the suspect they were after lived there 5 years ago. Totally justified.
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Hell yeah. I think there's room for a movement to start looking at defunding oppressive gulf states from every angle. Green energy is another great example; every electric car is a thumb in the eye of Mohammed Bin Salman. Also need to put as much pressure on lobbyists who work for them and think tanks that take their money--looking at you Every Single Right Wing Think Tank In DC and CAP Too. Force them to try and say that calling out some lanyard for being an apparatchick and bootlicker for societies that behead gay kids and atheists is racism or something similarly dumb. Really put the screws to them, is what I'm saying, and force them to either own up that they love blood money or disavow the work and force those states to go to ever less influential bottom feeders and cynical grifters.
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selec posted:Hell yeah. I think there's room for a movement to start looking at defunding oppressive gulf states from every angle. Green energy is another great example; every electric car is a thumb in the eye of Mohammed Bin Salman. Also need to put as much pressure on lobbyists who work for them and think tanks that take their money--looking at you Every Single Right Wing Think Tank In DC and CAP Too. Right on! I think this is a great sentiment also to vote with our wallets and policy to not tolerate autocrats. However Brunei is not a gulf state.
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Lord Wexia posted:Right on! I think this is a great sentiment also to vote with our wallets and policy to not tolerate autocrats. LOL TRUE.
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https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1111656357764186115 love that victory lap is the new infastructure week. this won't hurt the economy or his polls at all.
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-jussie-smollett-kim-foxx-interview-20190327-story.html Foxx had said she recused herself from the case last month after revealing she had contact with Smollett's representatives early on in the investigation. She declined to provide details at the time, but on Wednesday, her office quibbled over the terminology, saying Foxx did not formally recuse herself “in a legal sense.” "While the term “recusal “ was used when it was announced she was stepping away from the Smollett case, a Foxx spokeswoman said, “it was a colloquial use of the term rather than in its legal sense."
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Mar 29, 2019 18:07
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I think the weirdest and funniest part so far is Jussies attorney saying the brothers were wearing Joker makeup under the ski masks and that's why Jussie thought they were white.
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Your Parents posted:how about we assume people are innocent until they are proven guilty 
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Good job defending a corrupt police state.
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Your Parents posted:Good job defending a corrupt police state.
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Your Parents posted:"While the term “recusal “ was used when it was announced she was stepping away from the Smollett case, a Foxx spokeswoman said, “it was a colloquial use of the term rather than in its legal sense." Seriously, this is Burn After Reading level Coens at this point
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I still love how the white lady in the 2008 hoax which had all the evidence in the world against her got off way lighter than Jussie Smollet did, despite irrefutable evidence and lying a billion times. Weird how the white lady only gets one count and it's quickly dropped and she doesn't even have to pay a fine, but the black guy with, it turns out, no evidence against him is treated even more guilty and the mayor and police are demanding he pay 130k on top of the 10k he's already paid.
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Mar 29, 2019 18:41
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Fighting a corrupt police state by seeing how far down my digestive tract a cop boot can fit
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Mar 29, 2019 18:45
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VitalSigns posted:Fighting a corrupt police state by seeing how far down my digestive tract a cop boot can fit I get it I get it. You love rich people and want to kiss them on the bare feet and don't think they're capable of wrongdoing. They're so much better than us normal people.
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Mar 29, 2019 18:46
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Your Parents posted:I get it I get it. You love rich people and want to kiss them on the bare feet and don't think they're capable of wrongdoing. They're so much better than us normal people. This take is rich.
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Mar 29, 2019 19:38
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Followup with link to an actual article on the concentration camp: https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1111653953945501696 https://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-na-asylum-migrants-el-paso-camp-20190329-htmlstory.html
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Your Parents posted:Like, the two guys he paid are on video buying rope and masks and red hats. Your Parents posted:Good job defending a corrupt police state. Go click the "see all posts by this user in the thread" button and see where you stood yp.
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Z. Autobahn posted:Seriously, this is Burn After Reading level Coens at this point AAaaaa that's who Betsy DeVos reminds me of, mother gently caress
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Failson posted:Followup with link to an actual article on the concentration camp: hoo. You know kids in cages was one thing, this a whole different level of depravity. Rather than it being an overty imposition of resources dedicated to repression it shows an additional level of cruelty defined by abject neglect of the most basic of human needs. This is a literal death camp.
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Failson posted:Followup with link to an actual article on the concentration camp: So is there really a large uptick in asylum seakers/immigrants or is this all from increasing enforcement/poor logistics?
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Failson posted:Followup with link to an actual article on the concentration camp:
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ummel posted:So is there really a large uptick in asylum seakers/immigrants or is this all from increasing enforcement/poor logistics? It's purposeful by the administration, and agency, to support their false statements of an increasing surge.
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ummel posted:So is there really a large uptick in asylum seakers/immigrants or is this all from increasing enforcement/poor logistics? THERE'S A HUGE INCREASE OF IMMIGRANTS FLOODING THIS SITE because we shut down all the others IT'S AN INVASION, WE'RE IN A CRISISthat we made happen BROWN PEOPLE ARE COMING FOR YOUR JOBS AND YOUR CHILDREN.
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Kobayashi posted:I skimmed but gave up after ~20 tweets, what is this getting at? just this, basically https://twitter.com/ErikWemple/status/1111742555891396608 (wemple is a media critic)
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Well it only went on for 5 more but it sounds like she wanted to give MSNBC and state heads the heads up first for times but they had the info and wanted to publish it at that point she asked to talk directly to their editor directly to stop the post. I don’t see how this is on the DNC over MSNBC though it really sounded like they wanted the network to have the actual announcement but the author stressed it the other way around
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Spiffster posted:Well it only went on for 5 more but it sounds like she wanted to give MSNBC and state heads the heads up first for times but they had the info and wanted to publish it at that point she asked to talk directly to their editor directly to stop the post. Yashar is really dumb, MSNBC wanted to have the scoop, the DNC said 'can you not actually' and Yashar is holding it up as 'bullying'
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