Kyle Rittenhouse is allowed to get away with murder. Daniel Penny is allowed to get away with murder. Cops get away with murder all the time. The people pearl clutching about this CEO killing are really concerned with who was killed, not the act of killing. - ThreadSky

jphillll.bsky.social • 139 days ago

Kyle Rittenhouse is allowed to get away with murder. Daniel Penny is allowed to get away with murder. Cops get away with murder all the time. The people pearl clutching about this CEO killing are really concerned with who was killed, not the act of killing.

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courtjezter84.bsky.social•139 days ago

It’s essentially bow down to the superior human. Hold this rich man in awe. Which is hilarious considering how many of them are “christians”

mikemontreal.bsky.social•138 days ago

Violence or indeed killing anyone at any time for any reason is unjustified and wrong. Period. I don’t care what a judge or jury says- it’s wrong to snuff out life or inflict violence for any reason. It’s never solved anything and never will.

spearmintchalk.bsky.social•138 days ago

It was necessary in Germany in 1945.
Sometimes, it's necessary.

suhnih.kawaii.social•139 days ago

LET NONE WALK AWAY

clarknt67.bsky.social•138 days ago

How they feel about Jordan Neely’s death is pretty much how I feel about Brian Thompson’s.

meritcandour.bsky.social•139 days ago

Angel Boy will walk.
New Yorkers HATE wealthy White
men who make it clear to all
New Yorkers:

“We powerful White dudes own
the city you live in and every
single one of your miserable
peon asses.”

We New Yorkers stand behind
these juries; what they do isn’t
always fair. It is what it is.

warmwestwind.bsky.social•138 days ago

yeah idk who needs to hear this but most murders go unpunished

redbarkingmonkey.bsky.social•138 days ago

Probably because two of those were self-defense, and the third was the cold-blooded murderer that literally shot a man in the back. Just a guess.

9thprime.bsky.social•138 days ago

As of September, 277 people were murdered in NYC in 2024. Each of them mattered, though very few make the news.

https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/p0528/nypd-citywide-crime-statistics-september-third-quarter-2024

baymama.bsky.social•139 days ago

Maybe some right-wingers are cool with Rittenhouse and Penny and not with the CEO killer but you won’t find many of those people on here

iamthebasilisk.bsky.social•138 days ago

They get away with it because the jury convicts them , but jury nullification isn’t illegal so for example all it would take is one juror saying “ the prosecution just didn’t prove Luigi did it beyond a reasonable doubt to me “ and boom hung jury.

fritzdrybeam.bsky.social•138 days ago

roglet.bsky.social•138 days ago

"MuRdER iS wROnG!" - yeah, say that to the insurance companies who DEFINITELY see you as a human being with a family. They care about us so much 😊💕

emigno.bsky.social•139 days ago

Hence why they have done fuckall to find the white supremacist who stabbed a migrant teen to death *on the same day*, in the exact same fucking city.

crowqueenamps.bsky.social•138 days ago

The fact this is the first time I heard this news says it all.

ackles.bsky.social•139 days ago

I really can't see any jury allowing him to be charged with murder. The gun charges, yes, but I can't see a Guilty verdict happening

liberate2025.bsky.social•138 days ago

The picture you paint

reminds me of warfare

mementomoree.bsky.social•139 days ago

This

bamboozer2112.bsky.social•138 days ago

Sad agreement, but not all that sad either. We let it happen, and a great many cheer it on. We are a nation, and an empire, in rapid decline, and those that lead us are the major cause of most of it.

pxtl.ca•139 days ago

All of those murders are also bad.

melodykayyoung.bsky.social•138 days ago

Not that simple. None of it is ok.

jhfhockey.bsky.social•139 days ago

He didn't do it. He was over at my house watching TV and playing video games. I swear.

archvillain.bsky.social•139 days ago

Correct.

foolishmortal.bsky.social•139 days ago

Yeah all that shit sucks. But the difference is everybody else's murders are bad, I'm special, the murders *I* want to commit are good.

phantomliger89.bsky.social•139 days ago

None of them should be getting away with murder. But if I had to pick one it'd probably be the guy who killed the CEO.

resonanteye.bsky.social•139 days ago

jury nullification.

also I do not care who the guy is or what he was thinking. it's the action he took that was/is interesting.

amias.net•139 days ago

Shooting people is as American as apple pie

jtj24.bsky.social•139 days ago

This basically comes down to “whose life has value” and according to conservatives they get to decide that point.

mathandstuff.bsky.social•139 days ago

C'mon. It's not like the CEO was wielding a (checks notes) skateboard or something scary like that.

jennalice.bsky.social•138 days ago

I find myself becoming MORE AND MORE radical against the everyday person.

silvered.bsky.social•139 days ago

The jury will nullify, he's an American's gift.

thief-of-kings.bsky.social•138 days ago

Thousand years of terror vs a moment of terror.

vesperaegis.bsky.social•138 days ago

The brief moment of terror only adds to the millennial reign of terror and its slow, admittedly boring and often too uneventful, iterative progress through law and order; a constructive progress and a moral arc of the universe set back by each act of impulsiveness decades, if not centuries.

thief-of-kings.bsky.social•138 days ago

Idk man, I'd credit the French Revolution, and the adjoining revolutions up to 1848 with a lot of historical progress. Moral arc of the universe only bends towards progress because people bend it that, and yes that includes terror.

vesperaegis.bsky.social•138 days ago

I'd argue the Reign of Terror set back the original foundational principles of the French Revolution and the republic it formed, as a demagogue named Napoleon took advantage of the chaos and created even more dysfunction and inequality that took more time to correct than it needed to.

thief-of-kings.bsky.social•138 days ago

I don't think there's one without the other, and I think we do not appreciate historical changes without consideration of the material and class dynamics.

vesperaegis.bsky.social•138 days ago

(I realize not all of those are examples of democratic or republican iterative improvement, rather my point is that under many conditions violent uprisings and chaos often cause more damage than good, especially within the context of any ostensibly stable system)

vesperaegis.bsky.social•138 days ago

I think it's usually an unforced error, though especially the case when there is at least a mechanism in place for change - Pluralism, democratic norms, the rule of law, a history of advocacy and protest, a history of iterative change even with corporate parties, etc... (1/x)

voidvaporvortex.bsky.social•139 days ago

trump pardoned Eddie Gallagher, a soldier who hunted people for sport and posed with their bodies. but hunter fucking biden is all people care about

marilith.bsky.social•139 days ago

people care about what they're told to. corporate news hasn't shut up about hunter since 2020

sakuraradiochan.bsky.social•138 days ago

Rittenhouse and Penny did not "murder" people, neither of them murdered anyone

farther-afield.bsky.social•139 days ago

See also: Biden

wowlock.bsky.social•138 days ago

It has always been about class warfare. Now that the rich realized they MIGHT finally see some consequences for their actions, they will use everything in their power to fight against that. And the Trump administration will embrace full on fascism with their support even more.

radbadtad.bsky.social•139 days ago

It was someone they look up to, rather than someone they look down on. Everything is about enforcing the social hierarchy to them. Rewards and respect for those above, and suffering and humiliation for those below.

gatherer.bsky.social•139 days ago

It really is this simple for many reactionaries.

jphillll.bsky.social•139 days ago

And then of course the CEO himself was killing people legally every day.

https://www.jphilll.com/p/whats-a-life-worth.

lifesafeast.bsky.social•138 days ago

Right, but so are (for example) politicians who vote in laws (or refuse to) that allow American insurance companies to run amok.

urban-achiever.bsky.social•139 days ago

He hasn't been convicted yet. Same jury pool for the claims adjuster as Penny got. Honestly, I think he has better odds than most at walking on the murder charge.

robb.doering.ai•139 days ago

Like, jury nullification…? It was definitely premeditated and he’s on camera doing it, so idk any other way he could get off. But then again, if there was ever a time to expect jury nullification, this might be the time…

Jury selection will be wild, if it gets to that

robb.doering.ai•139 days ago

Given his rich family and mental health issues+young age, something tells me it won’t get to that

urban-achiever.bsky.social•138 days ago

The standard in america for a not guilty by mental defect defense is whether the person knew the act was wrong when they did it. Given the lengths he went to in order to plan it and escape, and taking the manifesto at face value, I think it's unlikely he'd even be allowed to offer that defense.

robb.doering.ai•138 days ago

Sorry, was unclear. Was suggesting he would plead guilty

urban-achiever.bsky.social•138 days ago

No, I don't mean nullification. Or not necessarily. They have someone on camera doing it. You can't see his face. They didn't get useable prints. It took them five days to even find him. Beyond a reasonable doubt is a high burden of proof. Daniel Penny just walked on murder.

urban-achiever.bsky.social•139 days ago

He might do time for the gun and if the prosecution is smart they'll include a charge like illegal poss of a firearm along with the murder rap so the jury can acquit on murder and have him do a dime on the gun.

corvidelle.bsky.social•139 days ago

thegodofcities.bsky.social•139 days ago

ilovemytwodogs.bsky.social•139 days ago

Truer words...

precisely.wtf•139 days ago

💯

mauigreg.bsky.social•139 days ago

The Venn diagram of people who are outraged at the murder of the insurance CEO and people who think Kyle Rittenhouse is an American hero, is the same fucking circle.

radulik.bsky.social•138 days ago

Gilles de Rais was a known pedophile and murderer and no one cared…..until he owed the rich money.

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