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Re: Rittenhouse trial
« Reply #800 on: December 07, 2021, 10:40:40 AM »
A bit more of Kyle's view (and the contrast between him and the culture warrior talking heads)
About 24 minutes into the podcast “You Are Here” on the right-wing network the Blaze on Monday night, co-host Sydney Watson told her guest, Kyle Rittenhouse, that it was “kind of impressive” that “of all the people that you shot at, you killed probably two of the worst on the planet.”
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“Congratulations,” Watson said Monday to Rittenhouse. “Good job, you.”
Rittenhouse, 18, responded that the killings were “nothing to be congratulated about.”
“Like, if I could go back, I wish I would never have had to take somebody’s life,” he said.

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“Well, hindsight being 20/20, probably not the best idea to go down there,” Rittenhouse said. “Can’t change that. But I defended myself and that’s what happened.”
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Re: Rittenhouse trial
« Reply #801 on: December 07, 2021, 08:06:38 PM »
A bit more of Kyle's view (and the contrast between him and the culture warrior talking heads)

I have been a fan of Sydney Watson for quite some time, I think I started watching her yourube channel a yr/half ago
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Re: Rittenhouse trial
« Reply #802 on: December 10, 2021, 04:35:27 PM »
I caught some of Senator Dole's funeral and noticed that Proud to Be an American was one of the songs that was performed or played (don't know which).

Guess Dole was one of those Trump insurrectionist scary people. sad
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Re: Rittenhouse trial
« Reply #803 on: December 26, 2021, 09:47:19 AM »
Shooting at a restaurant Thursday night.
Local liberal bird cage liner article on the shooter kept bringing up Rittenhouse because the shooter mentioned Rittenhouse in a past facebook posting. Gee, wonder what they're trying to imply?
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Re: Rittenhouse trial
« Reply #804 on: December 26, 2021, 11:31:51 AM »
^  Got a link?

To Lefties, Rittenhouse was a negative affair, so they'll try to tie any shootie-bangie incident to Rittenhouse to generate another negative impact.

We ("Righties") forget that negative impacts, appropriate or not, add up to form your world view. (Same for positive impacts.)

See, that's how advertising propaganda works.  Tell a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.

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Re: Rittenhouse trial
« Reply #805 on: December 26, 2021, 11:46:13 AM »
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Re: Rittenhouse trial
« Reply #806 on: January 01, 2022, 07:57:18 PM »
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Re: Rittenhouse trial
« Reply #807 on: January 02, 2022, 12:29:33 AM »
They probably have a bunch of community service projects that need to be done.

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Re: Rittenhouse trial
« Reply #808 on: January 02, 2022, 07:13:47 AM »
Wonder why it took so long

https://wtmj.com/news/2021/12/28/prosecutors-have-charged-60-plus-people-in-kenosha-protests-3/

With the coming midterms looking like a possible bloodbath for them perhaps the dems now want to give the appearance they're doing something. After the midterms the charges will be forgotten.
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Re: Rittenhouse trial
« Reply #809 on: January 02, 2022, 11:22:53 AM »
With the coming midterms looking like a possible bloodbath for them perhaps the dems now want to give the appearance they're doing something. After the midterms the charges will be forgotten.
Is Kamala Harris still trying to get them promptly bailed out? (If they're not running around on the loose already.)
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Re: Rittenhouse trial
« Reply #810 on: January 05, 2022, 08:55:31 PM »
Rittenhouse for some reason is brough up in a book on ancient Egypt where he shot two black Men.  :O

Also note she capitalizes black but not white.

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    On p. 341 of THE GOOD KINGS I state that Kyle Rittenhouse shot two Black men when instead he shot two white men. That was my mistake, and I apologize. The response has been a hateful stew of ridicule and denial that America has a race problem at all.

    — Kara Cooney (@KaraCooney) January 5, 2022


Professor subjected to ‘a hateful stew of ridicule’ for writing in her book that Kyle Rittenhouse shot two black men
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/01/05/professor-subjected-to-a-hateful-stew-of-ridicule-for-writing-in-her-book-that-kyle-rittenhouse-shot-two-black-men/
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Re: Rittenhouse trial
« Reply #811 on: January 05, 2022, 10:09:15 PM »
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    On p. 341 of THE GOOD KINGS I state that Kyle Rittenhouse shot two Black men when instead he shot two white men. That was my mistake, and I apologize. The response has been a hateful stew of ridicule and denial that America has a race problem at all.

    — Kara Cooney (@KaraCooney) January 5, 2022

Anyone who capitalizes "Black" but does not capitalize "white" in reference to race has zero moral authority to be lecturing anyone about racism or equality.
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Re: Rittenhouse trial
« Reply #812 on: January 05, 2022, 10:49:15 PM »
Anyone who capitalizes "Black" but does not capitalize "white" in reference to race has zero moral authority to be lecturing anyone about racism or equality.

Agreed.  But you're forgetting one significant fact.

They don't care about truth.  The only thing they care about is the number of psychological "impacts" they make, truthful or not, logical or not. 
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Re: Rittenhouse trial
« Reply #813 on: January 05, 2022, 10:54:19 PM »
Agreed.  But you're forgetting one significant fact.

They don't care about truth.  The only thing they care about is the number of psychological "impacts" they make, truthful or not.

Isn't that the same edicts of propaganda?

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Re: Rittenhouse trial
« Reply #814 on: January 05, 2022, 11:09:03 PM »
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On p. 341 of THE GOOD KINGS I state that Kyle Rittenhouse shot two Black men when instead he shot two white men. That was my mistake, and I apologize. The response has been a hateful stew of ridicule and denial that America has a race problem at all.

    — Kara Cooney (@KaraCooney) January 5, 2022

There's yet another error - Kyle shot THREE White men, not two Black men.

One of Kyle's assailants - shot in the arm - survived.
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Re: Rittenhouse trial
« Reply #815 on: January 06, 2022, 02:30:24 PM »
Isn't that the same edicts of propaganda?


No, no,  no.  Nobody can get away with using propaganda techniques in the US.  We're much too smart to fall for that.

That was just the repetition of facts in quotes.  As in "facts."

Propaganda can't happen here.  No way.


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Re: Rittenhouse trial
« Reply #816 on: January 06, 2022, 02:36:52 PM »

No, no,  no.  Nobody can get away with using propaganda techniques in the US.  We're much too smart to fall for that.

That's just repetition of facts in quotes.  As in "facts."

Propaganda can't happen here.  No way.
I am not sure about that one.  Can you cite a link for that?   ???

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Re: Rittenhouse trial
« Reply #817 on: January 06, 2022, 03:02:40 PM »
I am not sure about that one.  Can you cite a link for that?   ???

 :laugh: :rofl:

Why? What for?

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Re: Rittenhouse trial
« Reply #818 on: January 08, 2022, 08:52:50 PM »
The guy who bought the rifle for Rittenhouse takes a plea deal:

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2022/01/08/under-plea-deal-felonies-dropped-against-rittenhouse-gun-buyer/9133259002/

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Kyle Rittenhouse's friend, who bought him an assault-style rifle when he was only 17, has agreed to plead no contest to contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a non-criminal citation, and avoid convictions on the two felonies he'd been facing.

The left is, as usual, apoplectic over this blatant display of white supremacy . . . or something.
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Re: Rittenhouse trial
« Reply #819 on: January 08, 2022, 10:37:01 PM »
What I strongly dislike about plea deals is someone like Dominick Black winds having to accept even a non-criminal citation when he should have simply had all charges dismissed.  But a persecutor that’s desperate for a notch in their belt uses the infinite resources of the state to make it so painful to fight for your rights and defend yourself that it’s less bad to take the plea deal than it is to win in court.

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Re: Rittenhouse trial
« Reply #820 on: January 13, 2022, 03:15:02 PM »
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I read this article, and noticed they spoke of "the Kyle Rittenhouse case and other recent incidents of violence against African Americans."

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/health-science-environment/2022-01-04/a-black-gun-enthusiast-is-on-a-lonely-mission-to-stop-missouris-suicide-crisis

So I emailed a comment to them, and an hour or two later, it's been changed.

So, don't mind me. Just sitting here, quietly controlling the information you receive, to suit my agenda. [sinister laughter]
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Re: Rittenhouse trial
« Reply #821 on: January 13, 2022, 05:15:39 PM »
Good on you for speaking up, Perd.  You did the right thing.  However, it wasn't much of a change, being rather subtle.  And in a lot of peoples' minds after reading that, Rittenhouse will have still killed African Americans.  I think their change in the wording was deliberately designed to maintain that linkage, and yet give them an out if they are called on it again.
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Re: Rittenhouse trial
« Reply #822 on: January 13, 2022, 07:38:01 PM »
Good on you for speaking up, Perd.  You did the right thing.  However, it wasn't much of a change, being rather subtle.  And in a lot of peoples' minds after reading that, Rittenhouse will have still killed African Americans.  I think their change in the wording was deliberately designed to maintain that linkage, and yet give them an out if they are called on it again.

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Re: Rittenhouse trial
« Reply #823 on: March 12, 2022, 10:24:23 AM »
Before I even clicked on the link the question of whether or not they included the red dot which was absent during the trial went went through my head.

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In a matter of about three minutes, the gun was unboxed, identified, and dumped into the shredder.  They even destroyed the Sight-Mark optic and the Magpul PMag used by Rittenhouse.

Watch As Kyle Rittenhouse’s Rifle Is Destroyed [VIDEO]
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/watch-as-kyle-rittenhouses-rifle-is-destroyed-video/

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A few months after his acquittal, his spokesman said Rittenhouse wanted the gun destroyed and thrown away so no one could use it for publicity or to “celebrate” what Rittenhouse did. Schroeder, Rittenhouse’s attorneys and Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger, agreed the state would destroy the weapon.
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Re: Rittenhouse trial
« Reply #824 on: May 04, 2022, 04:17:39 PM »
Heads are exploding :rofl:

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There's some new Kyle Rittenhouse-inspired video game on Steam called "Acquitted" where you fight zombie rioters.

In 2020, there was a game released on Steam & Nintendo Switch called "Tonight We Riot" in which players controlled rioters who try to kill police & capitalists.
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1521232598336516096

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New Kyle Rittenhouse-Inspired Shoot ‘Em Up Game, Acquitted, Releasing May 2nd on Steam
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