George Takei et al: I want to live in a country where Colin Kaepernick is seen as a hero and Kyle Ri

[soothsayer]

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George Takei
@GeorgeTakei
I want to live in a country where Colin Kaepernick is seen as a hero and Kyle Rittenhouse is seen as a terrorist.

Morgan J. Freeman
@mjfree
I want to live in a country where Colin Kaepernick is seen as a hero and Kyle Rittenhouse is seen as a terrorist.

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[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[Cha]

2. That's what 80 Million People

voted for.. & 306 EVs.

[Zoonart]

3. THIS!

[joshcryer]

8. Yes!

[NoRoadUntravelled]

10. Yes. Exactly. nt

[Wounded Bear]

4. Indeed! nt

[Dr. Strange]

5. Kaepernick couldn't bring himself to vote for Hillary.

He's a fucking moron, not some hero. A hero would have have voted against Trump.

[RVN VET71]

17. He was not practical enough, not political enough, to vote for her

She was a candidate he didn't like, who didn't appeal to him as trustworthy. He was wrong, I agree, to allow his personal feelings about her keep him from voting against a monster like Trump. But I wouldn't call him a moron. Just a person too caught up in his own struggle to see through the fog.

And I believe his stance against police murders of black people was a brave one. It cost him his (admittedly diminishing) career in the NFL plus the animosity of millions of true morons, the Trump supporting, America-Firster racist neo-nazis who eagerly voted for Trump not once but twice.

But he publicly sacrificed his career to make a statement for racial justice. Unfortunately for him, he was looking for a leader like Jesus, pure in spirit and wise in Heaven's ways, to lead America down the righteous path. He saw in Hillary Clinton a devious politician whose agenda, whose real agenda, didn't include racism but neither did it include revolutionary efforts to eradicate it. Personally, I believe Mrs. Clinton would have been a frustratingly irritating yet excellent Chief Executive -- and I think the same of President Biden. Kaepernick wanted/insisted on more.

I don't blame him.

[Iggo]

19. Okay, that's enough.

[ad121rome]

6. More neighborly help and less bullying

[Evolve Dammit]

7. Well said George Takei!

[patphil]

9. Yes, I want to live in that country also.

Wait, are we talking about the United States, or Canada?

Just kidding, this is what the USA should be; the home of truth and justice; a place of empathy and compassion.

[NEOBuckeye]

11. Rittenhouse is a piece of shit

Lots of other pieces of right wing shit want to clump together to him to make one big shit.

[Sherman A1]

12. K&R

[usaf-vet]

13. Absolutely!!!! make it 80 million +2

[warmfeet]

14. It is true in other, sane, countries.

Would be nice if we could be as sane as they are.

[ananda]

15. Same. Just add DT to the terrorist list.

...

[BobTheSubgenius]

16. The "case" against Kaepernick being a hero? I understand the logic.

I vehemently disagree, but I get it. Murder Kid? A villain through and through.

[RVN VET71]

18. Rittenhouse will play to the jury, just watch.

He'll appear as a poor, young innocent who went to Kenosha with the highest of patriotic ideals. He actually -- and I firmly believe this -- went to Kenosha to murder people.

But juries can be swayed by apparent "youthful innocence" -- as they were by Lee Boyd Malvo, the demented and homicidal "Beltway Sniper" who murdered people at random because it, apparently, made him feel good. Malvo was touted in the press and by his defense attorneys as a poor young man led astray by his partner -- an older man who was executed for his participation in the murder spree. A prosecuting attorney who witnessed but did not try the case said young Malvo, in the jury's presence, always donned the demeanor of a poor little lost boy, looking at the jury with sad and bewildered eyes, keeping his head down, occasionally looking on the verge of tears. But, said this same prosecutor, when the jury was out of the room, Malvo was a different person, glad-handing his defense attorneys, laughing and joking like a second rate actor who'd just stepped out of role.

[Blue Owl]

20. And where the people put MyPillow out of business

[WyattKansas]

21. I do not understand the debate where Rittenhouse illegally owned & carried a military assault weapon

Illegally to another State's city and openly carried it with a fully loaded magazine on it's streets with the intent to target another human being, is even a question in the United States of America.

And any alleged 'professional' (politician, attorney, reporter, etc.) who dares to question that should lose all of their credibility, their professional position, and professional license for doing so, because it is reprehensible professional conduct beyond any legitimate excuse. This is fucking insanity at will.