Honestly this blood is on the hands of places like Fox News and OAN. They cater to and mermen’s mental illness until it manifests like this. And they know it. Fox News was making fun of its viewers off camera. The way that the skillfully manipulate the minds of the vulnerable is nothing short of intentional. If a therapist were to do this they would see jail time for sure. But when the media does it, we all just shrug.
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mermen's?
Sigh, “ferment” is what I was going for… not sure what my auto correct was thinking when I fat fingered that. I won’t change it as the responses to it are funny and deserve context.
I legit was on board calling these chuds mermen before reading your response
Lol live your dream! I’m not saying you shouldn’t!
I wonder how many MAGA Republicans come to his defense saying, “The police did not need to kill him, he wasn’t a threat. He was in his own home,” while they never gave two shits about Breonna Taylor, and possibly even said that she deserved it because she was possibly involved in crime. Well, here we are, you feel part of what the Black population felt, and so what can we change? Is it the guns, is it the law enforcement? Or is it the people at the top (same people, for both sides), who made this happen?
Was there any indication Breonna Taylor was involved in crime?
Just excuses
She used to date a person involved in crime, and went to his house a number of times, but she was not with him at the time. That’s all, but she was being followed in relation to him.
So basically not at all.
Correct.
And just to be clear, I’m not saying she was involved in crime, I’m saying these things are why the police were watching her and why they might say she was “possibly involved in crime”. I do not believe she was at all, and from all accounts, she had already distanced herself from that person quite some time before her murder.
While I don't celebrate the man's death, I am thankful that the FBI acted to stop him before he hurt anyone else.
I fully believe in free speech and open political discourse, but deadly threats of violence need to be taken seriously and acted upon quickly.
If you threaten to kill someone, you're denying their right to free speech. There's no free speech when you're dead. It's my belief that a person should not be protected under the same rights that they deny to others.
It's my belief that a person should not be protected under the same rights that they deny to others.
Me too, but it sounds like a pipe dream at this point. 😢
It's not. Remember that's what all oppressors want you to think. All that evil requires to exist is for good people to do nothing, which is why those who would do evil do all they can to convince you that your efforts against them mean naught.
what a stupid way to die
What a stupid way to live too
Tomorrow I expect to see Scott Adams retweet his "Republicans will be hunted" post from a couple years ago.
Another conspiracy theorist wacko?
No, a PATRIOT who was MURDERED by the GOVERNMENT. I’m going to EMPHASIZE words by CAPITALIZING them and occasionally bolding them like a fifth grade POWERPOINT presentation, because my AUDIENCE has the attention span of a GUPPY suffering from COCAINE WITHDRAWAL. SAD
NOT ENOUGH USE OF REPEATED PUNCTUATION!!!!!
THAT SENTENCE HAS TOO MANY SYLLABLES! APOLOGIZE!
"'A-po-log-ize?' What's that?" -- MAGAs
FBI is up two-nil on the MAGAs now. I wonder if he had a thin blue line sticker on his truck.
Anyone dumb enough to post about that kind of thing on Facebook... I don't even have words. That would have been dumb in 2003, let alone 2023!
Also, I am enjoying the mental picture of how fast this guy's MAGA friends reached for the FBI hotline when they saw his posts.
Good riddance.
Fuck around meets find out.
lmfao nice.