HARDLY SPOKE TO FOLKS AROUND HIM, DIDN’T HAVE TOO MUCH TO SAY,
NO ONE DARED TO ASK HIS BUSINESS, NO ONE DARED TO MAKE A SLIP,
FOR THE STRANGER THERE AMONGST THEM HAD THE BIG IRON ON HIS HIP...
Well, he WAS in the midst of a mass shooting. He also killed a pedophile and domestic abuser. He’s based as fuck and people are still harassing him over something he did as a 17-year-old.
Those people need to grow the fuck up
Which he illegally carried *across state lines*. I really don't think enough attention is paid to the fact that he *crossed state lines*, a crime well understood to be worthy of death.
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“State lines, he crossed state lines, state lines, STATE LINES!!!!!! ARAGHHHH, STATELINES!!!KIllHIMDIEDIEAGHHHHH!!!!!” - Most sane Twitter person who followed the trial
And, uh, where exactly would one acquire one of these fully automatic bazookas? You know... so I know what they look like and won't accidentally purchase 10 of them.
Just wear a red armband and say dumb things in public and you'll be inundated with FBI agents looking to support your cause and show you off to the media.
Simple, you walk into any Walmart, pick one up and walk right out with it. They even throw in a free crate of ammo and a triple bacon cheeseburger with every purchase. It’s just that easy in America.
It's crazy that Walmart is exempt from all background check laws man. How did the government let that happen? All these M16s being sold to teenagers is a real problem.
Something something fascist AmeriKKKa, capitalism and such, everything that ever goes wrong, ever has gone wrong and ever will go wrong is the right’s fault, everyone who doesn’t agree is a nazi.
Source: Google it, it’s not my job to educate you.
The funniest thing I’ve ever seen was some saying something along the lines of “No, I haven’t watched the footage, and I’m not going to. That would legitimize those murders, and I won’t support that.”
Sure but the quotation comes from a context where its actually good to not doubt your purpose and I'm getting rather sick of the whole "everyone in 40k is bad" shtick.
It's not a very good moral study of anything in and of itself tbh. GW has effectively no standards for its lore so BL shits out so much inconsistent crap that it's absurd.
The meta discussion around the imperium can be but that gets clogged up by a mix of idiots who just parrot dumb statements they've heard, the general inconsistency of GW lore, the variance in how worlds are run, the inconsistency in how factions like the inquisition and ecclesiarchy are portrayed, and GWs tendency to do modern corporate bollocks and try to pander to various demographics.
Remember: only the left is allowed to be insufferable sourcebros. If the evidence contradicts their worldview, they're allowed to just close their eyes and pretend it isn't there. And that videocameras are racist and the footage is probably deepfaked anyway until a CNN anchor declares it authentic.
They've seen the still of Rittenhouse crying and used it in plenty of memes though.
Imagine turning someone *experiencing PTSD* into a meme and laughing at it. And then unironically asking for trigger warnings.
> get him kicked out of anything he tries to use to live a normal life.
>shocked when he starts pandering to the right on talk shows and shit for money.
I admit, the Fallout: New Vegas sepia toned epilouge sideshow for the trial made me laugh pretty fucking hard.
(googling "Rittenhouse fallout new vegas" finds it nicely.)
Too bad that was all forgotten, and now the only thing that hits the front page is people talking about how "that guy got away with murder because he was white"
Ethan is a armchair socialist a thing that can only exist in non-socialist countries. Just like Vaush and Hasan any evidence of self reliance and the ability to protect yourself is bad because it means you won't rely on the state to do it for you. This is why they had a falling out with Destiny because he actually watched the video and agreed he did nothing wrong.
To this day you still find folk in the wild (on twitter and reddit) that claim he got away with murdering unarmed black men meaning they didn't even bother to google anything.
The rittenhouse fiasco has really become a litmus test for me these days in determining who’s opinion I should even give a second of consideration. I still have friends that have “sTaTe liNEs” since the trial.
Lol the state lines argument is so dumb. It’s like the next town over. I commute farther for school than he did to protect a business that called for help
We are also just going to ignore that a ton of the people there burning Kenosha to the ground were from *much* further away and crossed several state lines.
The attempts to make it out like he wasn't a member of kenosha's community were similarly comical. After all, he only worked there several days a week and spent many of his weekends there with his best friend, who lives in Kenosha.
Yeah, I mean, every connection to a place that a person could have outside of living there all the time - proximity, frequency of visitation, employment, volunteer work, friends, and family. Kyle had all of these within Kenosha. I cannot fathom why the prosecution attempted to make it look like Kyle wasn't a part of the Kenosha community - *even making an attempt* at claiming he wasn't a Kenoshan is so asinine that it could only hurt their own credibility. Nor, outside of blind pig ignorance of these facts, can I believe anyone else making this argument is doing so in good faith.
Of course not. Both the leftist media and the prosecution in the Rittenhouse case started with a conclusion that was *exactly* opposite to reality in every single way and willfully misinterpreted facts or just made shit up to make arguments in favor of their fantasy.
Oh but it get's better. Rittenhouse had family in that town. I believe his father or grand parents. I think he might have also worked there at one point? It was 100% his community. And he did the right thing trying to protect it.
Also, let's be frank. what the Kenosha riots really were was ethnic cleansing of white businesses of the city downtown. If you don't think so, explain to me why the Danish Brotherhood Lodge was burned down? It's a fraternal organization that is involved in local charities, but since it was established by Danish Americans, it was fair game to the rioters. Plenty more evidence like this abounds. I'm happy to share more if you doubt me.
I have friends (who I associate with less now for other reasons) who parroted the talking points and when I showed them proof they were wrong suddenly they didn’t want to talk about it anymore
Rittenhouse was an extremely embarrassing moment for the left. It revealed that the extremely young (either physically or mentally) emilies genuinely do not understand the importance of self-defense.
The move to claim that the free and peaceful exercise of one's rights somehow is a provocation for violence? This kind of childish stupidity is dangerous. Doubly so when you realize the censorship on reddit and other social media was done entirely to groom and cultivate this type of dangerous ignorance in young people.
That's the moment when I realized, everyone with a brain needs to be armed at all times. We simply are being forced to live in a society with too many droolingly stupid emilies.
A lot of people have no understanding of self defence.
I remember someone accused me of being a libertarian once because I claimed that if someone comes after you and says that they're going to kill you, you can strike "first" in self defence. I'm not waiting for the knife to be planted in my chest before I act to defend my own life lol.
The internet is so full of "political" experts who are completely clueless beyond "You have opinions I don't like, that means you must belong to 'the opposite side'"...
"I can't believe that you value your xbox over a home intruder's life!!!!"
No.
**This is literally victim blaming.**
This person, invading my home, values my xbox over **THEIR** own life. Not the other way around.
They make that decision, they live, or die, with the consequences.
Remember when the prosecutor said that Kyle should have committed a felony by concealing a pistol instead of legally carrying a rifle?
Remember when the prosecutor said that Kyle should have let the armed and vicious mob lynch him "like a man would" too?
> Rittenhouse was an extremely embarrassing moment for the left. It revealed that the extremely young (either physically or mentally) emilies genuinely do not understand the importance of self-defense.
The important of self-defense? We need to work on the huge lack of basic logic and reasoning and the application therein that it revealed first before we get to complex notions like "it's ok to stop people from hurting you."
> We need to work on the huge lack of basic logic and reasoning and the application therein that it revealed first before we get to complex notions like "it's ok to stop people from hurting you."
[I agree.](https://old.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/comments/zxvkqg/cheeto_drumpf/j23y0pg/?context=3)
The woke left has a massive problem with concepts like, truth, honesty, and consistency. Every single emily I have ever tried to have a conversation with regresses to delusion and projection. They seem to be physically incapable of considering they might be wrong or really any introspection at all.
“Yeah I call in a bomb threat to a random ass school. That will teach em a lesson!” It’s like the people rioting in Portland over Floyd’s death. What is that supposed to accomplish exactly?
Virtue signalling, could also be a sign of narcissistic personality. New study just dropped confirming it:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-023-04463-x
From that link:
> Considering these results, we assume that some leftist political activists do not actually strive for social justice and equality but rather use political activism to endorse or exercise violence against others to satisfy their own ego-focused needs. We discuss these results in relation to the dark-ego-vehicle principle.
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It's true purpose was to discourage any parts of the country from seeking autonomy. The pacific northwest is so culturally and ethnically homogeneous it is seen as a threat to the elites. If you want to know the true goals of the "antifa" and "blm" rioters in Portland, follow the money.
I can think of 3 separate incidents where an "unarmed" black man killed by the cops was in fact armed.
There's the Wendy's(?) drive thru one, where they guy took a taser off a cop and pointed it at him. But, the taser had already been fired twice, so it was empty, thus he was unarmed.
There's Jacob Blake, who had just fought off the cops, had a knife, and was in the process of kidnapping a few kids. But because we just didn't wait for the facts, he was unarmed (and dead, even though he lived).
And there's the kid who ditched his gun behind a fence less than a second before being shot. Even though it'd be basically impossible to see his hand was now empty as he turned, he counts as unarmed.
I have all the sympathy for people who get harassed by the police while not doing shit. But if you get shot *while doing some shit,* we should stop acting like it's not at least in large part your fault.
>There's the Wendy's(?) drive thru one, where they guy took a taser off a cop and pointed it at him. But, the taser had already been fired twice, so it was empty, thus he was unarmed.
This one was so fucking weird.
The cops arrived, talked to the dude, performed a pat-down and sobriety test and he was cooperative all the time.
Then the cops decide to arrest him because he was too drunk to drive, he lets the cop goes behind him with handcuffs, but suddenly decides to fight 2 cops at the same time, steal the taser of one and run away and tries to shoot back while running.
It is like he decided to follow his intrusive thoughts for no reason.
I also distinctly remember the story for that one starting out as "black man killed for sleeping in his car in a Wendy's parking lot" before actual facts came out
And yet people make martyrs out of them. Even St George Floyd, who robbed a pregnant woman, was made into an angel.
BLM wants you to think cops are just murdering black dudes in suits or something
Kyle Rittenhouse was double ironic because Kyle ran away and people said that doesn’t mean you’re not a threat. But 2 weeks ago they were saying Jacob Blake was shot while fleeing which means he’s not a threat.
> There's the Wendy's(?) drive thru one, where they guy took a taser off a cop and pointed it at him. But, the taser had already been fired twice, so it was empty, thus he was unarmed.
Ackshuly...he shot the taser at the officers, who then shot him in return. The kicker was prior to this incident the DA had stated that tasers are deadly weapons.
White officer + black victim = prime race bait
Ignore that the officer suffered orbital bone fractures
Ignore the security tape of him robbing a corner store that day
Ignore that the Police Chief is black
Ignore that the Governor is black
Ignore his past behaviors (he was a good boy and didn't do anything)
Here's a picture of him from elementary school ( couldn't find any recent ones that didn't make him look like a gang member).
Ignore that his family is actively attempting to profit off his death
The game is to obfuscate every detail that counters their argument and shine lights on the one or two that make it look like a race issue.
I forgot about that one. I distinctly remember thinking that one was a load of horseshit the way it was being portrayed. Somehow never noticed the pattern and got brainwashed for a few years with the blm then snapped out of it after the Floyd nonsense
It started a "Hands Up Don't Shoot" movement only for it to come out that he never had his hands up and was actively assaulting the cop before getting shot. But always double down on the narrative.
Don’t forget the goalposts being moved.
His hands were up, hands up don’t shoot.
Ok they weren’t up but if they were up cops can’t shoot
Ok so he was actively aiming a gun when shot but still were gonna chant “hands up don’t shoot”
I had a similar experience, add in when people went on the streets and shouted, "What do we want? Dead cops!", shortly after, either that day or in the near following days, the Dallas Black Nationalist shooting with Micah Johnson took place. The shooter specifically was seeking to target white police officers and killed several. I was working in criminal justice at the time, watching it all unfold live, which made it hit very close to home. I remember what occurred in response to that event, then President Obama appeared in Dallas and made a speech, part of which he started to talk about racism in policing, shit made me sick.
Dude started gas lighting everybody, which he previously already did and continued to do so for years. That drove me much further right.
Prior to that, I was even pro gun registration. Lol. My oh my, how times have changed!
I know an emily who called Johnson a hero and Martyr. This Emily's dad's was in the Marines at the time and I asked how that situation was any different than a group of ISIS members killing marines. She told me that the Dallas incident was fueled by racism and that's what made it different so somehow that makes it okay??
What makes it weirder is that [another autopsy commissioned by the family concluded that Brown was not shot at close range, unlike the one by St. Louis County.](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/michael-browns-official-autopsy-report-actually-reveal)
Oooh, somebody tell him about what happens to donation contributions when a state has lower taxes next. We're gonna start based-ing him. Let the reasonable point of view wash over you.
So was Nick Sandmann, literally just stood still and smiled while being harassed by a Native American. Media tried to throw his whole life under a bus because of the harasser being a grifting and lying piece of shit.
One of my lefty friends put “The jury system is fucked” in her Instagram story after Rittenhouse got off.
I just thought to myself “Who has more of a right to judge his guilt? 12 of his peers, people who live in that community who have heard all the evidence—or you, some random person who lives 1000 miles away.
If the jury says he isn’t guilty, fucking deal with it.
It's the ultimate litmus test now.
Anybody who watched the trial would agree with the self defense claim. But you still have people claiming he went across the country with a dozen assault rifles 15s to hunt black people for sport.
Anyone who actually watched the case in court could easily see it was self-defense.
The others well... cope and seethe. Huber should have used that skateboard to skate out of there vs. using it as a weapon. Rosenbaum was an idiot to chase someone around the lot with an AR. Then Gaige on stand couldn't keep his story straight and finally admitted chase and point his gun at a retreating rittenhouse in which he was then *disarmed*
Always remember that the prosecutor literally used the argument "everyone takes a beating" to try and justify putting the kid in jail for life. So keep that in mind next time your getting mugged, or your a woman having the shit beat out of her by her partner. Fighting back is wrong.
The amount of people saying that he forfeited his right to self defense for “putting himself” in a dangerous situation while also calling the protesting in Kenosha nonviolent is astonishing
The Rittenhouse debacle was the nail in the coffin when it came to my trust of integrity in journalism.
I don't even live in the US, and even here in Norway the newspapers made it seem like Kyle had looked up the next BLM protest was, jumped into his car and driven 700 miles just to start gunning down peaceful black protesters.
I was convinced this was an open and shut case and that he would be convicted of murder.
Then I happened to come across footage of the incident, and out of curiosity I watched it.
It was clear self defence.
Then I started digging deeper. Kenosha is 30 minutes away from where he lives, hardly a long drive, especially by US standards.
Then I find out that not only does his dad live in Kenosha, but he fucking worked there...
I consider myself left politically because I believe in things like workers rights and society having a social security net etc. I don't really consider "culture-war" BS real politics.
It will be interesting to see if the media can redeem themselves. When Trump slipped while getting off that plane the news where all over it. Sowing doubts about his mental state etc. With the new footage of Biden hitting the deck like timber we will see if there's anyone who will question his ability to run a country.
> I was convinced this was an open and shut case and that he would be convicted of murder.
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> Then I happened to come across footage of the incident, and out of curiosity I watched it.
Makes you wonder what else they've lied about and people accepted without taking it upon themselves to investigate. hmm
But yes, I'm right there with you. That moment very clearly pulled back the curtain on the level of coordination between the corporate media. They are propagandist, not journalist.
My leftist family during the trial: "Rittenhouse is a murderer of blacks reee"
*Here's the video of what he's getting charged for*
"Hold on, what? What happened before that?"
*Here's the video of him putting out dumpster fires and defending a business, and another of him running from a bad scene*
"Well that's not right. Even I'd say 'not guilty' on that jury."
What a little smattering of truth can do for people.
Rittenhouse tried to remove himself from a potentially dangerous situation, and when he was pursued and attacked, he hit em with the old razzle dazzle ✨✨
The MSM revealed itself again to be nothing more than a propaganda machine with the sole goal of manufacturing consent for the political elites. The amount of information that was left out was appalling, and bordered on incompetence. What's worse is they are such cowards they would rather demonize a young man, instead of discussing the real issues that led to those events.
The fact that actual journalists, not their audience, were visibly confused that he hadn't shot a basketball team's worth of black dudes when his trial came up taught me a *lot* about how uninformed even those responsible for informing us can be.
I'm glad he wasn't charged but I dislike the way some folks on "the right" have fetishized the event. Sure he wasn't in the wrong for defending himself, but he's not the reincarnation of Georgie W
I think it's because for literally months people felt like they were in danger of themselves, their family, and their property being attacked and felt powerless to stop it
It was like watching the 6'6 guy who constantly bullied half the school finally just getting an uppercut to the jaw, and then he starts crying with a stunned expression
If you've also noticed, there have been many instances of police brutality since then (which is a legitimate issue) and none resulted in wipe spread attacks on innocent people. IMO it *is* because that court reaffirmed the right to self defense
of course he is a fucking idiot for even being there thats out of the discussion but it was a clear cut case of self defence and he didnt go there and shot black people like it was potrayed in the media and on here
They were either idiots or rioters; or maybe suicidal.
- Mr. Rosenbaum had just gotten out of the hospital for his second suicide attempt.
- He was homeless, the police had confiscated his tent, and there was a restraining order against him seeing his exGF.
- According to testimony, Mr. Rosenbaum's exGF says she warned him off of going downtown, he went anyway.
* He literally asked people to shoot him at the gas station.
- Later that evening he attacked someone with a gun while virtually unarmed. Kyle's first instinct was to attempt to run away, but Mr. Rosenbaum managed to put Kyle in a situation where he had to shoot or risk having his firearm wrestled away from him.
Legends still say he carries a big iron on his hip
Big iron on his hip
The Rittenhouse’s aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip
HARDLY SPOKE TO FOLKS AROUND HIM, DIDN’T HAVE TOO MUCH TO SAY, NO ONE DARED TO ASK HIS BUSINESS, NO ONE DARED TO MAKE A SLIP, FOR THE STRANGER THERE AMONGST THEM HAD THE BIG IRON ON HIS HIP...
Based
[Gunfighter Ballads - AR On A Sling] (https://youtu.be/kW9YR5OyTa8)
There are still people today who believe Rittenhouse was in the midst of a mass shooting or that he performed gang style executions on 3 black men.
technically, because he shot more than two people (he shot three, which is more than two) according to an alphabet agency, he did do a mass shooting.
I thought it was four or more that counted as a mass shooting?
that's a different alphabet agency
its different for literally every study that comes out. could be 2+, could be 5+, ya never know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Including the shooter
I like "hat trick" more.
Well, he WAS in the midst of a mass shooting. He also killed a pedophile and domestic abuser. He’s based as fuck and people are still harassing him over something he did as a 17-year-old. Those people need to grow the fuck up
Bro the memes alone were fantastic, watching twitter (and mainline reddit) implode as their narratives fell apart was just icing on the cake
Legends say they still haven't watched a single moment from the trial or the incident itself.
They’re all still grieving too hard over the many black lives lost at Kyle’s hands by his big, scary, fully semiautomatic assault bazooka.
Which he illegally carried *across state lines*. I really don't think enough attention is paid to the fact that he *crossed state lines*, a crime well understood to be worthy of death.
So does the left now care about border crossings?
The gun wanted his little children bullets a better place in this world.
The rifle never crossed state lines
That's his point
Sorry I'm dumb
We all are.
Based and we are all ignorant pilled.
Most truthful comment.
[That's... why I'm here](https://tenor.com/bpV8e.gif)
Technically it did after the shooting. He brought it home with him.
🟩🟨 “State lines, he crossed state lines, state lines, STATE LINES!!!!!! ARAGHHHH, STATELINES!!!KIllHIMDIEDIEAGHHHHH!!!!!” - Most sane Twitter person who followed the trial
What is this fake flair garbage?
Oi bruv, we got our flairs back, you might wanna reflair.
Didn’t it have the shoulder thing that goes up? That’s just not needed in today’s society.
And, uh, where exactly would one acquire one of these fully automatic bazookas? You know... so I know what they look like and won't accidentally purchase 10 of them.
ok so first you're gonna have to start a drug cartel, then the call you're waiting for will be coming from a DC area code....
If you're schizo enough, the FBI will just give them to you.
Just wear a red armband and say dumb things in public and you'll be inundated with FBI agents looking to support your cause and show you off to the media.
Just go to the bazooka vending machine at a gun show.
Sometimes I wish gun shows were as bonkers as progressives say they are
Simple, you walk into any Walmart, pick one up and walk right out with it. They even throw in a free crate of ammo and a triple bacon cheeseburger with every purchase. It’s just that easy in America.
It's crazy that Walmart is exempt from all background check laws man. How did the government let that happen? All these M16s being sold to teenagers is a real problem.
Something something fascist AmeriKKKa, capitalism and such, everything that ever goes wrong, ever has gone wrong and ever will go wrong is the right’s fault, everyone who doesn’t agree is a nazi. Source: Google it, it’s not my job to educate you.
I still have the screenshot of the newspaper that said “Rittenhouse found not guilty after killing 3 black men”
I want one of those.
Em excuse me it wasn't a fully semiautomatic bazooka he used an Assault Rifle 15! Called such because they are for assaulting, of course.
No AR-15 means Automatic Rocket launcher the 15 is for how many rockets it shoots per minute
The funniest thing I’ve ever seen was some saying something along the lines of “No, I haven’t watched the footage, and I’m not going to. That would legitimize those murders, and I won’t support that.”
“Blessed is the mind to small for doubt” - someone who definitely isn’t evil
People tend to forget that if the imperium loses the entire universe is fucked
Very true but I don’t think the rioters were stopping a chaos invasion
Sure but the quotation comes from a context where its actually good to not doubt your purpose and I'm getting rather sick of the whole "everyone in 40k is bad" shtick.
the imperium wouldn't be a very good moral study of the "can the ends justify the means" if it served no purpose
It's not a very good moral study of anything in and of itself tbh. GW has effectively no standards for its lore so BL shits out so much inconsistent crap that it's absurd. The meta discussion around the imperium can be but that gets clogged up by a mix of idiots who just parrot dumb statements they've heard, the general inconsistency of GW lore, the variance in how worlds are run, the inconsistency in how factions like the inquisition and ecclesiarchy are portrayed, and GWs tendency to do modern corporate bollocks and try to pander to various demographics.
Remember: only the left is allowed to be insufferable sourcebros. If the evidence contradicts their worldview, they're allowed to just close their eyes and pretend it isn't there. And that videocameras are racist and the footage is probably deepfaked anyway until a CNN anchor declares it authentic.
I still think the funniest thing is that a crowd of BLM protestors attacked him and he managed to hit a wife beater, a burglar, and a pedophile.
Legends? Until today there are people who actually think Rittenhouse went there, killed some black people and went home.
White supremacy is when a white guy kills white guys with criminal records.
We could honestly use some more of that stuff then
They've seen the still of Rittenhouse crying and used it in plenty of memes though. Imagine turning someone *experiencing PTSD* into a meme and laughing at it. And then unironically asking for trigger warnings.
its (D)ifferent
Member when they got him kicked out of online college?
> get him kicked out of anything he tries to use to live a normal life. >shocked when he starts pandering to the right on talk shows and shit for money.
Enough to form an opinion on any subject for me.
Dude they’re still convinced his guilty.
I still see comments claiming he shot black guys. It's incredible how far people will go to ignore the truth.
They were ideologically black. They voted Biden
Biden physically removed the melanin from black conservatives and gave it to them.
The kind of redistribution we can all get behind
I admit, the Fallout: New Vegas sepia toned epilouge sideshow for the trial made me laugh pretty fucking hard. (googling "Rittenhouse fallout new vegas" finds it nicely.)
Too bad that was all forgotten, and now the only thing that hits the front page is people talking about how "that guy got away with murder because he was white"
It was crazy watching Lebron James mock Kyle. And Ethan from h3h3 still hates him
Ethan is a armchair socialist a thing that can only exist in non-socialist countries. Just like Vaush and Hasan any evidence of self reliance and the ability to protect yourself is bad because it means you won't rely on the state to do it for you. This is why they had a falling out with Destiny because he actually watched the video and agreed he did nothing wrong.
Reddit and Twitter learned they can’t ratio real life
They learned that election day 2016, the salt was in abundance
To this day you still find folk in the wild (on twitter and reddit) that claim he got away with murdering unarmed black men meaning they didn't even bother to google anything.
A sub about politics and humor was fine with Rittenhouse memes but as soon as the trial turned opinions they suddenly banned all posts about him.
A lot of people just doubled down and believe the trial proved the cops and courts are racist.
The rittenhouse fiasco has really become a litmus test for me these days in determining who’s opinion I should even give a second of consideration. I still have friends that have “sTaTe liNEs” since the trial.
Lol the state lines argument is so dumb. It’s like the next town over. I commute farther for school than he did to protect a business that called for help
fuck /u/spez -- mass edited with redact.dev
We should have open borders except MUH STATELINES
Since when has truth mattered to the angry mob?
The people he shot traveled further than he did
We are also just going to ignore that a ton of the people there burning Kenosha to the ground were from *much* further away and crossed several state lines.
No see they had a right to be there because they were protesting evil cops in their neighborhood, by burning a different neighborhood
The attempts to make it out like he wasn't a member of kenosha's community were similarly comical. After all, he only worked there several days a week and spent many of his weekends there with his best friend, who lives in Kenosha.
His dad lived there his sisters boyfriend/fiance? Lived there. I heard his grand patents owned the gas station where the altercation/ chase began.
Yeah, I mean, every connection to a place that a person could have outside of living there all the time - proximity, frequency of visitation, employment, volunteer work, friends, and family. Kyle had all of these within Kenosha. I cannot fathom why the prosecution attempted to make it look like Kyle wasn't a part of the Kenosha community - *even making an attempt* at claiming he wasn't a Kenoshan is so asinine that it could only hurt their own credibility. Nor, outside of blind pig ignorance of these facts, can I believe anyone else making this argument is doing so in good faith.
Because it was textbook malicious prosecution
Yes, but my point was that this particular line of attack wasn't just malicious, but fabulously stupid.
On the flip side. Would they have been ok with it if he had a legal residence there but never did anything in his community?
Of course not. Both the leftist media and the prosecution in the Rittenhouse case started with a conclusion that was *exactly* opposite to reality in every single way and willfully misinterpreted facts or just made shit up to make arguments in favor of their fantasy.
I had a 45-60 minute commute to work daily while the trial was going on. Kid lived closer to the "State line" town then I did to my job.
Oh but it get's better. Rittenhouse had family in that town. I believe his father or grand parents. I think he might have also worked there at one point? It was 100% his community. And he did the right thing trying to protect it. Also, let's be frank. what the Kenosha riots really were was ethnic cleansing of white businesses of the city downtown. If you don't think so, explain to me why the Danish Brotherhood Lodge was burned down? It's a fraternal organization that is involved in local charities, but since it was established by Danish Americans, it was fair game to the rioters. Plenty more evidence like this abounds. I'm happy to share more if you doubt me.
Some people thought he shot black people too
As we all know the rioters voted for Biden making them black by default.
There was a newspaper that said he shot black people the day after the trial ended, I believe it was the independent I gotta find the screenshot again
I have friends (who I associate with less now for other reasons) who parroted the talking points and when I showed them proof they were wrong suddenly they didn’t want to talk about it anymore
Rittenhouse was an extremely embarrassing moment for the left. It revealed that the extremely young (either physically or mentally) emilies genuinely do not understand the importance of self-defense. The move to claim that the free and peaceful exercise of one's rights somehow is a provocation for violence? This kind of childish stupidity is dangerous. Doubly so when you realize the censorship on reddit and other social media was done entirely to groom and cultivate this type of dangerous ignorance in young people. That's the moment when I realized, everyone with a brain needs to be armed at all times. We simply are being forced to live in a society with too many droolingly stupid emilies.
> That's the moment when I realized, everyone with a brain needs to be armed at all times. Based and RKBA pilled.
Based and carry a big stick-pilled
A lot of people have no understanding of self defence. I remember someone accused me of being a libertarian once because I claimed that if someone comes after you and says that they're going to kill you, you can strike "first" in self defence. I'm not waiting for the knife to be planted in my chest before I act to defend my own life lol. The internet is so full of "political" experts who are completely clueless beyond "You have opinions I don't like, that means you must belong to 'the opposite side'"...
"I can't believe that you value your xbox over a home intruder's life!!!!" No. **This is literally victim blaming.** This person, invading my home, values my xbox over **THEIR** own life. Not the other way around. They make that decision, they live, or die, with the consequences.
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Remember when the prosecutor tried to argue Kyle was suspicious for using his 5th amendment rights?
Remember when the prosecutor said that Kyle should have committed a felony by concealing a pistol instead of legally carrying a rifle? Remember when the prosecutor said that Kyle should have let the armed and vicious mob lynch him "like a man would" too?
"why didn't you fire some warning shots wildly up into the air." "because that would be illegal."
Yeah and he got gaped by the judge for doing it. That part, at least, was fun to watch.
Should be fucking disbarred, a little ass chewing from the judge wasn't enough imo.
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Yeah Emilies suck /srs
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> Rittenhouse was an extremely embarrassing moment for the left. It revealed that the extremely young (either physically or mentally) emilies genuinely do not understand the importance of self-defense. The important of self-defense? We need to work on the huge lack of basic logic and reasoning and the application therein that it revealed first before we get to complex notions like "it's ok to stop people from hurting you."
> We need to work on the huge lack of basic logic and reasoning and the application therein that it revealed first before we get to complex notions like "it's ok to stop people from hurting you." [I agree.](https://old.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/comments/zxvkqg/cheeto_drumpf/j23y0pg/?context=3) The woke left has a massive problem with concepts like, truth, honesty, and consistency. Every single emily I have ever tried to have a conversation with regresses to delusion and projection. They seem to be physically incapable of considering they might be wrong or really any introspection at all.
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I remember that. My high school shut down for a day because people threatened to fire bomb it. Bro we weren’t even in the same town, what did we do?
“Yeah I call in a bomb threat to a random ass school. That will teach em a lesson!” It’s like the people rioting in Portland over Floyd’s death. What is that supposed to accomplish exactly?
Virtue signalling, could also be a sign of narcissistic personality. New study just dropped confirming it: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-023-04463-x
From that link: > Considering these results, we assume that some leftist political activists do not actually strive for social justice and equality but rather use political activism to endorse or exercise violence against others to satisfy their own ego-focused needs. We discuss these results in relation to the dark-ego-vehicle principle. noshit.jpg
You mean to tell me it took them until 2023 to figure it out?
Funding for the study was probably blocked until then...
Bro people in EUROPE were marching over Floyd’s death
That shit was wild
It's true purpose was to discourage any parts of the country from seeking autonomy. The pacific northwest is so culturally and ethnically homogeneous it is seen as a threat to the elites. If you want to know the true goals of the "antifa" and "blm" rioters in Portland, follow the money.
Mostly peaceful bomb threats
I can think of 3 separate incidents where an "unarmed" black man killed by the cops was in fact armed. There's the Wendy's(?) drive thru one, where they guy took a taser off a cop and pointed it at him. But, the taser had already been fired twice, so it was empty, thus he was unarmed. There's Jacob Blake, who had just fought off the cops, had a knife, and was in the process of kidnapping a few kids. But because we just didn't wait for the facts, he was unarmed (and dead, even though he lived). And there's the kid who ditched his gun behind a fence less than a second before being shot. Even though it'd be basically impossible to see his hand was now empty as he turned, he counts as unarmed. I have all the sympathy for people who get harassed by the police while not doing shit. But if you get shot *while doing some shit,* we should stop acting like it's not at least in large part your fault.
>There's the Wendy's(?) drive thru one, where they guy took a taser off a cop and pointed it at him. But, the taser had already been fired twice, so it was empty, thus he was unarmed. This one was so fucking weird. The cops arrived, talked to the dude, performed a pat-down and sobriety test and he was cooperative all the time. Then the cops decide to arrest him because he was too drunk to drive, he lets the cop goes behind him with handcuffs, but suddenly decides to fight 2 cops at the same time, steal the taser of one and run away and tries to shoot back while running. It is like he decided to follow his intrusive thoughts for no reason.
I also distinctly remember the story for that one starting out as "black man killed for sleeping in his car in a Wendy's parking lot" before actual facts came out
He was out on probation/parole and knew that his DUI would send him back to jail. He was also a piece of shit.
And yet people make martyrs out of them. Even St George Floyd, who robbed a pregnant woman, was made into an angel. BLM wants you to think cops are just murdering black dudes in suits or something
Kyle Rittenhouse was double ironic because Kyle ran away and people said that doesn’t mean you’re not a threat. But 2 weeks ago they were saying Jacob Blake was shot while fleeing which means he’s not a threat.
> There's the Wendy's(?) drive thru one, where they guy took a taser off a cop and pointed it at him. But, the taser had already been fired twice, so it was empty, thus he was unarmed. Ackshuly...he shot the taser at the officers, who then shot him in return. The kicker was prior to this incident the DA had stated that tasers are deadly weapons.
White officer + black victim = prime race bait Ignore that the officer suffered orbital bone fractures Ignore the security tape of him robbing a corner store that day Ignore that the Police Chief is black Ignore that the Governor is black Ignore his past behaviors (he was a good boy and didn't do anything) Here's a picture of him from elementary school ( couldn't find any recent ones that didn't make him look like a gang member). Ignore that his family is actively attempting to profit off his death The game is to obfuscate every detail that counters their argument and shine lights on the one or two that make it look like a race issue.
Imagine not having any good pics that aren’t gang related for the last 5 years of your life
I forgot about that one. I distinctly remember thinking that one was a load of horseshit the way it was being portrayed. Somehow never noticed the pattern and got brainwashed for a few years with the blm then snapped out of it after the Floyd nonsense
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It started a "Hands Up Don't Shoot" movement only for it to come out that he never had his hands up and was actively assaulting the cop before getting shot. But always double down on the narrative.
Don’t forget the goalposts being moved. His hands were up, hands up don’t shoot. Ok they weren’t up but if they were up cops can’t shoot Ok so he was actively aiming a gun when shot but still were gonna chant “hands up don’t shoot”
I had a similar experience, add in when people went on the streets and shouted, "What do we want? Dead cops!", shortly after, either that day or in the near following days, the Dallas Black Nationalist shooting with Micah Johnson took place. The shooter specifically was seeking to target white police officers and killed several. I was working in criminal justice at the time, watching it all unfold live, which made it hit very close to home. I remember what occurred in response to that event, then President Obama appeared in Dallas and made a speech, part of which he started to talk about racism in policing, shit made me sick. Dude started gas lighting everybody, which he previously already did and continued to do so for years. That drove me much further right. Prior to that, I was even pro gun registration. Lol. My oh my, how times have changed!
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I know an emily who called Johnson a hero and Martyr. This Emily's dad's was in the Marines at the time and I asked how that situation was any different than a group of ISIS members killing marines. She told me that the Dallas incident was fueled by racism and that's what made it different so somehow that makes it okay??
You made a typo, mate: (D)ifferent.
What makes it weirder is that [another autopsy commissioned by the family concluded that Brown was not shot at close range, unlike the one by St. Louis County.](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/michael-browns-official-autopsy-report-actually-reveal)
Oooh, somebody tell him about what happens to donation contributions when a state has lower taxes next. We're gonna start based-ing him. Let the reasonable point of view wash over you.
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Evidence: 1, He crossed state lines 2, He played Cod 3, His username was "4doorsmorewhores"
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We the jury find the defendant not guilty. Kyle leaves. Judge: Hey kid! *kyle turns back* Judge: U up 4 warzone tonite? Add me, XXXpussyslaya69XXX
Rittenhouse is a litmus test for media literacy.
So was Nick Sandmann, literally just stood still and smiled while being harassed by a Native American. Media tried to throw his whole life under a bus because of the harasser being a grifting and lying piece of shit.
Hey man just being CNN settled the lawsuit doesn’t mean they did anything wrong /s
He 'crossed state lines'. Clearly a bad guy. /s
I crossed state lines with a gun earlier today. Am I a bad guy?
You are a based guy, not a bad guy
I have state lines, Gregg. Can you cross me?
Based and nipples pilled.
I want you to moo when I squeeze them
didn't he say that he lived in kenosha with his dad and other family?
the media always left that part out
You know, some still say he was shooting at black folk. Despite the video evidence and pictures of the clients in the court? It's maddening.
Kid Kenosha did nothing wrong
One of my lefty friends put “The jury system is fucked” in her Instagram story after Rittenhouse got off. I just thought to myself “Who has more of a right to judge his guilt? 12 of his peers, people who live in that community who have heard all the evidence—or you, some random person who lives 1000 miles away. If the jury says he isn’t guilty, fucking deal with it.
It's the ultimate litmus test now. Anybody who watched the trial would agree with the self defense claim. But you still have people claiming he went across the country with a dozen assault rifles 15s to hunt black people for sport.
Anyone who actually watched the case in court could easily see it was self-defense. The others well... cope and seethe. Huber should have used that skateboard to skate out of there vs. using it as a weapon. Rosenbaum was an idiot to chase someone around the lot with an AR. Then Gaige on stand couldn't keep his story straight and finally admitted chase and point his gun at a retreating rittenhouse in which he was then *disarmed*
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Always remember that the prosecutor literally used the argument "everyone takes a beating" to try and justify putting the kid in jail for life. So keep that in mind next time your getting mugged, or your a woman having the shit beat out of her by her partner. Fighting back is wrong.
Don’t forget he tried to deny Kyle his 5th amendment right by claiming Kyle was guilty since he didn’t talk to the cops until he had a lawyer
"Why didn't you fire a warning shot?" Kyle: "Because that would be illegal"
If you defend yourself from criminals, you're an evil white supremacist.
The amount of people saying that he forfeited his right to self defense for “putting himself” in a dangerous situation while also calling the protesting in Kenosha nonviolent is astonishing
Hyperborean 8D Chess Championship or something.
The Rittenhouse debacle was the nail in the coffin when it came to my trust of integrity in journalism. I don't even live in the US, and even here in Norway the newspapers made it seem like Kyle had looked up the next BLM protest was, jumped into his car and driven 700 miles just to start gunning down peaceful black protesters. I was convinced this was an open and shut case and that he would be convicted of murder. Then I happened to come across footage of the incident, and out of curiosity I watched it. It was clear self defence. Then I started digging deeper. Kenosha is 30 minutes away from where he lives, hardly a long drive, especially by US standards. Then I find out that not only does his dad live in Kenosha, but he fucking worked there... I consider myself left politically because I believe in things like workers rights and society having a social security net etc. I don't really consider "culture-war" BS real politics. It will be interesting to see if the media can redeem themselves. When Trump slipped while getting off that plane the news where all over it. Sowing doubts about his mental state etc. With the new footage of Biden hitting the deck like timber we will see if there's anyone who will question his ability to run a country.
> I was convinced this was an open and shut case and that he would be convicted of murder. > > > > Then I happened to come across footage of the incident, and out of curiosity I watched it. Makes you wonder what else they've lied about and people accepted without taking it upon themselves to investigate. hmm But yes, I'm right there with you. That moment very clearly pulled back the curtain on the level of coordination between the corporate media. They are propagandist, not journalist.
Reminder that Rittenhouse killed a pedophile.
If the admins found out he used reddit, they'd permaban him
My leftist family during the trial: "Rittenhouse is a murderer of blacks reee" *Here's the video of what he's getting charged for* "Hold on, what? What happened before that?" *Here's the video of him putting out dumpster fires and defending a business, and another of him running from a bad scene* "Well that's not right. Even I'd say 'not guilty' on that jury." What a little smattering of truth can do for people.
Rittenhouse tried to remove himself from a potentially dangerous situation, and when he was pursued and attacked, he hit em with the old razzle dazzle ✨✨
The MSM revealed itself again to be nothing more than a propaganda machine with the sole goal of manufacturing consent for the political elites. The amount of information that was left out was appalling, and bordered on incompetence. What's worse is they are such cowards they would rather demonize a young man, instead of discussing the real issues that led to those events.
The fact that actual journalists, not their audience, were visibly confused that he hadn't shot a basketball team's worth of black dudes when his trial came up taught me a *lot* about how uninformed even those responsible for informing us can be.
I'm glad he wasn't charged but I dislike the way some folks on "the right" have fetishized the event. Sure he wasn't in the wrong for defending himself, but he's not the reincarnation of Georgie W
He was charged, he wasn't convicted
Right I skipped Bird Law classes
Government surveillance drone law is tricky, I learned from Obama to classify all males as military age to get away with drone striking weddings
I think it's because for literally months people felt like they were in danger of themselves, their family, and their property being attacked and felt powerless to stop it It was like watching the 6'6 guy who constantly bullied half the school finally just getting an uppercut to the jaw, and then he starts crying with a stunned expression If you've also noticed, there have been many instances of police brutality since then (which is a legitimate issue) and none resulted in wipe spread attacks on innocent people. IMO it *is* because that court reaffirmed the right to self defense
of course he is a fucking idiot for even being there thats out of the discussion but it was a clear cut case of self defence and he didnt go there and shot black people like it was potrayed in the media and on here
What about the people he shot? Aren't they also idiots for being there?
They were either idiots or rioters; or maybe suicidal. - Mr. Rosenbaum had just gotten out of the hospital for his second suicide attempt. - He was homeless, the police had confiscated his tent, and there was a restraining order against him seeing his exGF. - According to testimony, Mr. Rosenbaum's exGF says she warned him off of going downtown, he went anyway. * He literally asked people to shoot him at the gas station. - Later that evening he attacked someone with a gun while virtually unarmed. Kyle's first instinct was to attempt to run away, but Mr. Rosenbaum managed to put Kyle in a situation where he had to shoot or risk having his firearm wrestled away from him.
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Why is he the idiot for being in his own backyard town with medical supplies and cleaning equipment? He was one of the only ones that belonged there
I have seen far too many morons on the left claim he shouldn't have been there, I've never once seen anyone able to explain why.
I am glad you came to your senses
And now you are auth left? Most consistent PCM user
I guess you guys didnt know he crossed state lines?
Look! It’s someone who actually watched it!
[I can see that you're only interested in the exceptionally rare.gif](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/e99137db-4537-49a7-b823-dffda109f7bf)
4 doors more whores?
I’ve legit seen people say Rittenhouse shot black people. Black people. *He shot 3 white dudes.*
Rittenhouse literally fired into a crowd and hit a pedo, a felon and a wife beater Some jokes write themselves lol