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
Same everywhere, the world is doomed!!!
I think you’ve put the cart before the horse, sorry to yell at clouds but I was raised in a “small town” and I can tell you that racism was rampant long before the media became so invasive (pre-internet).
They’re not trying to influence as much as they are chasing the dollar, they are catering to a big market. These people have always thought they were race warriors, and holy at that.
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.
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.
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.
Prison in the USA has always been a punishment, they tried to say “rehabilitation” for a period to change their image and gave up.
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.
Idoubt they found out anything. they are just confronted with the consequences.
The woman is “I’ll get out of this on appeal.”
Good points. And they aren’t wrong if you look at how the country has changed negatively since Trump brought racism and hatred back.
brought back is a bit generous, if not naive… he heightened it though for sure; created a permission structure.
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.
Sad but true.
Well written and very true.
I assume this is a historic post and not anything that’s happened recently.
Looks like 2017.
So did they get pardoned by Trump or not?
Looks like state charges so Trump can’t pardon them even if he wanted to.
🤣🤣🤣
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 face of a man who has had his privilege card revoked.
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.
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.
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.
This sums up the left so perfectly.
Which part? Opposing racism? Consequences for criminals? Feel free to elaborate
Why do you think pleading with the left to not pay attention is an opposition to racism or a consequence. Please explain.
Why do you think ignoring problems will make them go away? Are you a fucking toddler? Pretending not to see it won’t do anything to stop Trump from finding out about it
Exactly 👌
That is literally my point
You don’t have a point
Getting some basic reading skills. Don’t worry about engaging with this stuff until then
Probably soon pardoned by the Oval Office.
Fortunately, it doesn’t have jurisdiction. It was a state offense.
Trump just “pardoned” an Oregon(?) state election official, convicted on state charges of (?)election interference. It’s symbolic, not I fully expect them to try to press that through officially.
It was Colorado, and it was purely symbolic. If his DOJ were to take this one to the Supreme Court, and SCOTUS rules in favor of the Trump Admin, then the US Constitution, which is currently only wounded (gravely), would be truly dead.
I hadn’t heard of the Oregon one. He tried that with an election official in Colorado, too, though. Unsurprisingly, she’s still in prison.
Happened in 2017.
The woman was released in 2020.
“He’s a good man - good man. Plays Shasta with his grandmother. Expert at gun safety. Tops gun safetyman. Loves children. Loves them like hisb own! Hasn’t been a problem until that one left wing Marxist extremist family indoctrinating their children at a local Antifa gathering…”
😢 But I just wanted to be racist…
😭 The woke won’t let me be racist!!!Ah don’t worry, they’ll get a pardon for heroic acts of anti wokeness or something
State charges are not able to be presidentially pardoned, although if it’s a red state the governor may just do it to capitulate.
This may surprise people, but politicians do not have the right to pardon people in most countries.
The way it should be
The woman already got released.
Figures. Yet people are doing twice as much time with no eligibility for early release for fucking weed.
Less people after Biden pardoned hundreds of them.
We really have a stupid system don’t we
“Armed and threatening to kill”
That adds an entirely worse facet to it than the initial text lets on.
Video of the flag convoy https://youtu.be/lu1GjHAiHZg
For two days, the couple and the nearly dozen others waved the flags while aboard pickup trucks and targeted their slurs and threats at black families in counties outside Atlanta.
In Douglasville, the couple, among others, reportedly yelled racial slurs at the birthday party’s attendees as they drove by. Torres also threatened to kill the people at the party with a shotgun Norton had loaded and retrieved from his truck, the district attorney’s office said in a statement on Facebook.
This happened 10 years ago, and they were sentenced 8 years ago.
I really dislike how twitter screenshots never have date stamps in them. Makes things look recent when posted.
Shits wild tho. Fuck those people.
Same, and we only know because someone kindly posted a source. Lots don’t even have that.
the district attorney’s office said in a statement on Facebook.
For fucks sake
WTF is wrong with these racist assholes?!
Grandpa told them stories about lynching the uppity ones. This garbage is passed down in the family.
I grew up in rural PA. I left because (among other similar issues) the community was A-ok with a small engine repair shop having the proprietor’s full name on the big sign out front. His name was Kermit K. Kistler. His parents named him that, and he was proud enough to display it for all to see.
the proprietor’s full name on the big sign out front. His name was Kermit K. Kistler.
That’s a very intentional choice. Most small businesses in small towns get named “[lastname]'s [type of business]” and I can’t think of any small businesses around me the specify the first name of who it is, even when its a family with lots of entrepreneurs and you see that family name on like 4 different businesses in town. Like your family name is a source of reputation in these small towns so when you’re starting out it’s better to use just the family name because everyone knows a [lastname] and sure the business is actually owned by their cousin but at least you know someone related to it so you know they’ll do good work
I mean, I get that the initials are KKK, and maybe even the parents did it intentionally… But should he not be allowed to have his name on his shop?
Its a dogwhistle. That’s what racists do is they’ll have some dogwhistle to signal to other racists that they’re also in the in group. In this case it’s intentionally listing out the owners full name so they can see his name initializes to K.K.K. (which i pointed out in another comment that most businesses in small towns don’t specify a first name, it’s just “lastname’s type of business” so in this case “Kistlers Engine Repair” since you don’t know if it’ll be Kermit or Emmit or Kermit’s grandson John Kistler serving you but you at least know it’ll be a Kistler running the place)
I think it’s more like, if you knew your initials were a dog-whistle, you would probably keep that on the d/l or change your name. Instead, putting it on display is like saying that fact is not a deal-breaker for you or your business.
Those pictures show frustration with the punishment in the same way a toddler does. These people are messed up.
they are crying because they got caught, not because they felt guilty. its literally like how BRIAN “apologizes” to stewie
After watching countless interrogation videos, they are not only crying because they got caught. They are also crying cause they are going to jail and that their life is ruined now. If sentence would not be incarceration, they’d be happy and with a smile. It is always “am I going to jail?” rather than an actual sense of guilt.
I posit that the husband knows very well the welcome he’ll get in prison given how we predominately lock up PoC for even minor infractions then mistreat them.
it’s a shame they weren’t tried as terrorists.
Then deported to El Salvadore
And ppl say that women are emotional.
