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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,212 posts)
Sat Nov 20, 2021, 03:41 PM Nov 2021

Kyle Rittenhouse is no hero -- he's a gun-toting, cop-loving product of white privilege who thinks a

piece of property matters more than the life of a Black man

The same people who think Kyle Rittenhouse should get a medal for killing two people and wounding another with a semi-automatic rifle at a Wisconsin Black Lives Matter protest think Alec Baldwin should rot in jail for accidentally shooting and killing a woman on a movie set with what he was told was an unloaded gun.

And, even if you make the senseless case that the men Rittenhouse shot were “arsonists,” “rioters,” and “looters” and not victims — as defense attorneys did — none of these alleged crimes carried the death penalty, and certainly no one appointed Rittenhouse as their judge, jury and executioner.

Still, the wave of sympathy being generated for this adolescent assassin is astounding. Equally troubling is the jury’s decision that another self-appointed vigilante should get away with murder.

Maybe the jury bought into the hateful hashtag that started trending on Twitter even before closing arguments were finished at Rittenhouse’s murder trial — #NotGuilty.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/kyle-rittenhouse-no-hero-gun-221800898.html
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Kyle Rittenhouse is no hero -- he's a gun-toting, cop-loving product of white privilege who thinks a (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2021 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author Hiawatha Pete Nov 2021 #1
Couldn't agree with you more. Colgate 64 Nov 2021 #2
he also had his photo taken with a member of the Proud boys YoshidaYui Nov 2021 #3

Response to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Colgate 64

(14,732 posts)
2. Couldn't agree with you more.
Sat Nov 20, 2021, 06:17 PM
Nov 2021

An immature adolescent imbued with the thrill of carrying an assault rifle into a conflict zone (while pretending to be a "medic&quot and just hoping for a chance to use it. And he made one.

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