I honestly can’t imagine thinking this is what one wants to do with their time. Like, I accept that I can’t understand this sort of racism and such, but like, even if I was a bigot I can’t imagine deciding that what I’m going to do with one of my afternoons is drive around threatening a child’s birthday party.
But also, it amazes me that white Americans manage to feel aggrieved by black Americans even today. We’re the ones who keep fucking them over not the other way around.
the term is “radicalized” but it’s used so often it’s lost all meaning. I’ll bet good money these fucks were consuming conservative media, eventually one or both of them reached the tipping point where they basically thought they were soldiers in a day-to-day war, they feel emboldened because there are so many like-minded people bubbling up these days, they felt like they had a big community behind them thanks to the parasocial effects of conservative media.
These people obviously didn’t grow up right, but absent today’s fucked up hate pipeline that is conservative (read: almost all) media, I doubt they’d have been radicalized enough to do this.
It does show how right we were over the past decades, warning that latent racism had not ceased but instead was simmering under the surface of Everytown America.
For real turn on a conservative radio station every now and then to hear just completely unhinged bullshit. They jack that retard muscle hard on those stations
He doesn’t need to worry, his El Presidente Trump will pardon him in no time.
And ppl say that women are emotional.
while racism is a bad thing and they should be punished somehow, prison is the least useful or effective punishment and this is just stupid.
I assume this is a historic post and not anything that’s happened recently.
Looks like 2017.
I was afraid this was about Aaron Paul for a sec. Anyone else see an uncanny resemblance?
Aaron Paul looks like the average southern drug taking boy, that’s exactly why they cast him in BB.
I don’t think this guy looks as much like Aaron as they both look like southern meth heads.
… Ohhhhhhhh actually yeah that makes sense. Okay yeah! It’s an archetype that existed independently and Aaron Paul DOES nail it! Like, just aesthetically–as far as i know he’s actually a very good person hence my worry. He perhaps inadvertently made that entire demographic look better XD
Unfortunately it isn’t true in the US today that hate has consequences.
And this is why they want to defund NPR, poison Wikipedia, and enshrine Twitter in its place.
Can’t manufacture outrage with so many pesky fact checkers.
The best part was when he cried like a baby.
that dude knows he is fucked.
“WHAT DO YOU MEAN I can’t threaten people with a gun? I thought Trump fixed things”
Don’t give this too much attention or Trump will pardon them.
If it’s state charges he can’t pardon them. He only has federal pardon powers.
So what they have to do is commit more crimes until it’s bumped up to a federal case. Like do the same thing but in a national park. They better get on that real fast.
As if that small detail would stop the orange turd
Too true, nobody seems inclined to actually do anything to stop his illegal behavior.
What about Georgia’s governor? Are they shitty?
He is, but I don’t believe he’s stupid. Pardoning those two would create a bigger impetus to flip the state. Especially in a climate now where people are already quite fed up with republicans.
This sums up the left so perfectly.
Which part? Opposing racism? Consequences for criminals? Feel free to elaborate
Study those facial expressions very closely. Look at what’s happening here, because this is so indicative of the mindset of racists.
You look at most criminals at their sentencing, you tend to see either resignation, or remorse. There is neither here.
This is shock. This is disbelief. They did monstrous, horrifying things to innocent people, while fully believing that they had an absolute and unquestionable right to do those things.
When a guy robs a gas station, he knows it’s a crime. He’s simply reasoning that committing this crime is better for him than the alternatives. He knows it’s a risk. He knows he will be punished if he is caught.
But these people saw no risk in what they were doing. They believed that the world protect them and celebrate their actions. They believed that it was their right and their imperative to terrorize people of colour.
Good points. And they aren’t wrong if you look at how the country has changed negatively since Trump brought racism and hatred back.
The notion that Trump brought those things back is part of the exact problem I’m highlighting.
They never went away. America continues to be a deeply racist country, the kind of country that make people like this not only a possibility, but an inevitability.
Yup, those are the faces of finding out. What they did was monstrously evil, threatening to kill kids because they weren’t the white colour. I imagine he’s probably realizing as well that he’s going to be beaten a lot in jail for this. Given the incarceration rate of PoC being higher there’s going to be a welcome for him he’ll regret if they don’t immediately put him into solitary confinement. His life isn’t just ruined, he may very well die in prison.
The woman has fully disassociated at this point, she’s just got the “going through the motions” look of someone who had the worst news of their life handed to them and don’t know how to process it.
Idoubt they found out anything. they are just confronted with the consequences.
The woman is “I’ll get out of this on appeal.”
her prison experience will be a lot different then his.
I read her very differently, but deciphering facial expressions never was my strong suit. To me her face looks indifferent to the situation.
He’ll probably get a bunch of Nazi tattoos in prison.
The fact that he will essentially now be forced to do that in order to survive prison really is an indictment of the system. How are people supposed to rehabilitate when not joining a gang is likely to get them killed?
I’m not saying this guy is necessarily rehabilitatable, you have to have a particularly brainless mindset to even do this in the first place but in general it should be possible for people to improve in prison, otherwise what’s the point, we might as well go back to public punishment and executions, since that’s effectively what prison has now become. Minimum security prisons are probably closer to the ideal, but that’s obviously not an option for all inmates.
Well written and very true.
“Armed and threatening to kill”
That adds an entirely worse facet to it than the initial text lets on.
Those pictures show frustration with the punishment in the same way a toddler does. These people are messed up.
“next they’re gonna say assault with a deadly weapons is a ‘class 2 felony’” - some racist probably idk
