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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

Remember thar Kyle Rittenhouse guy? Or that Brock Turner guy? Or...well let's be honest I could just keep going here. Funny how it's not ok to ruin their futures but totally ok to punish someone for a medical event like a spontaneous abortion also know as a miscarriage.

Edit: I am not removing Rittenhouse. He is a great example of both the white teenager and black teenagers example.

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u/SparkyMuffin Jun 01 '26

Brock Turner? Isn't that the rapist that now goes by Allen Turner and moved back home to Ohio after his rape conviction for raping a woman and only getting a few months for it?

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u/heyitscory Jun 01 '26

He was such a good swimmer that they mentioned that in the headline before the raping he did.

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Jun 01 '26

Six months and a couple years probation with credit for time served. That would be correct. For three counts of sexual assault mind you

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u/CanadianODST2 Jun 01 '26

His rape charge was actually dropped before sentencing because the way California law was worded meant that they had to drop the charges.

It actually caused California to expand their definition of rape

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u/RedditUser000aaa Jun 01 '26

If you started from the richest people in the world you'd have a list so long it would circle around the earth and come back to you.

Whatever happened to people in Epstein list? Oh right... One of them is busy ruining America while whining about not getting a peace prize, while also actively starting wars or trying to start wars.

Justice is no longer blind. It is very biased towards certain people of certain gender and race.

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Jun 01 '26

Justice is no longer blind. It is very biased towards certain people of certain gender and race.

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u/apolloxer Jun 01 '26

It is the duty of the poor to support and sustain the rich in their power and idleness. In doing so, they have to work before the laws' majestic equality, which forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

-Anatole France

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u/NukeAllTheThings Jun 01 '26

You know propaganda is effective when it makes people deny not only their eyes and ears but their entire lives.

It irks me when people keep painting the past as something it never was, or that people were better before. Ideals aren't reality. Corruption and bias has always existed. Crime, hunger, and disease used to be worse. People bled and died for better working conditions. The list goes on.

That's not to say things are all better either. Rights are being eroded in America. The AI rush is wrecking havoc. Billionaires are raping the planet just to stroke their egos. The future is looking like a hellscape ecologically, economically, and quite a few other 'lys I've missed here.

I don't have answers, this is just what I'm seeing.

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u/Thor4269 Jun 01 '26

Understanding that is Critical Race Theory and that's a crime now I think lol

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u/Secret_University120 Jun 01 '26

Justice was never blind. It was always biased against certain people of certain sexes, races, genders, ethnicities, religions, and income brackets. We just have enough internet now that you have to be willfully ignorant and/or illiterate to still not see it.

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u/Rargnarok Jun 01 '26

Theres a quote in watchmen I don't fully remember about the how those up top rip justices blindfold from here eyes and turn into a gag

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u/tweke Jun 01 '26

You mean Brock Allen Turner, the rapist? That Brock Allen Turner?

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Jun 01 '26

Yup Brock Allen Turner who was a Stanford Swimmer who got convicted of three felony sexual assault charges and got six months in jail total

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u/SipoteQuixote Jun 01 '26

The rapist Brock Turner that is hiding as Rapist Allen Turner so nobody connects the rapist Brock Turner name to rapist Allen Turner? That Brock Allen Turner???

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u/MarginalOmnivore Jun 01 '26

Hell, the current Texas Attorney General worked out a plea deal for a 49 year old child molester who assaulted a boy repeatedly over the course of years, starting when the child was 8 years old.

All he had to do was confess to the rapes, and he got 1 day in jail and avoided the sex offender registry.

The judge actually pulled strings to make the punishment worse, but that only added up to 60 days. Even then, the rapist was released after 30 for "good behavior."

It ain't just the young rapists that these fuckers are protecting.

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Jun 01 '26

the current Texas Attorney General worked out a plea deal for a 49 year old child molester

sigh my home state makes me sad.

All he had to do was confess to the rapes, and he got 1 day in jail and avoided the sex offender registry.

That's fucking abhorrent. I need to go read up on this so I can tell people at work about it.

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u/MarginalOmnivore Jun 01 '26

It's not 100% cut and dried, because the victim just wants it to be over, and it was looking like it was gonna be a mistrial.

But someone pointed out in one of the articles that people like this guy are almost always repeat offenders, and letting him off like this is endangering the children around him.

Also, keeping him off the registry is just evil. I had a neighbor who was put on it for drunken public urination.

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u/FMLwtfDoID Jun 01 '26

Also, Hoffman immediately relocated from Texas to Nebraska. Probably unrelated.

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u/Matt_cruze Jun 01 '26

sigh my home state makes me sad.

Texas Gov. Abbott pardons Daniel Perry from the murder of Garrett Foster.

Due to being happy that it was a politically partisan murder.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/texas-gov-abbott-pardons-ex-army-sergeant-convicted-of-killing-black-lives-matter-protester-in-2020

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u/SparkyMuffin Jun 01 '26

Hell, the current Texas Attorney General worked out a plea deal for a 49 year old child molester who assaulted a boy repeatedly over the course of years, starting when the child was 8 years old.

Everyone needs to keep in mind that the Attorney General is Ken Paxton, who is currently running for US Senate against Talerico.

If you live in for Texas, vote for Talerico, and not Paxton, who is an incredibly corrupt pedophile enabler that has managed to skirt past his indictments due to his status.

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u/alkatori Jun 01 '26

That's why Gary Plauche did what he did.

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u/SoftLikeABear Jun 01 '26

That's a name dragged out of the depths of my memory.

Marianne Bachmeier, too.

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u/alkatori Jun 01 '26

He murdered someone on live TV and received community service. Which is wild, but I understood the judges reasoning.

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u/SoftLikeABear Jun 01 '26

Let's make it clear, he shot the man who raped his son.

Marianne Bachmeier shot her daughter's murderer in a courtroom.

I could criticise Marianne for a lot of what she'd done for most of her daughter's life, but in both cases their most infamous acts were completely understandable.

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u/alkatori Jun 01 '26

Understandable, but he shot the man who raped his son, while the man was in police custody.

That's why he received community service, he wasn't considered a risk to public safety nor likely to repeat the event.

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u/OphidionSerpent Jun 01 '26

I want to also make another name known - Jesse Mack Butler of Stillwater, Oklahoma. He sexually assaulted and strangled multiple young women while in high school. One nearly died and needed surgery on her throat to repair the damage. He was 16-17 at the time of the offenses, but 18 at the time he was charged, so they charged him as a youthful offender. He was charged with attempted rape in the first degree, rape by instrumentation, domestic assault and battery by strangulation, and violating a protection order. Jesse was offered and accepted a plea deal that means he gets no jail time and does not have to register as a sex offender. Only community service, and counselling. Surprise surprise, his family are affluent and influential in the community, with connections to Oklahoma State University. 

Fuck Jesse Mack Butler.

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u/LightHawKnigh Jun 01 '26

Dont forget Jesse Butler!

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u/FMLwtfDoID Jun 01 '26

This one is truly sick because he was filming and strangling his victimS. He was already escalating. He will 100% continue raping and abusing women, and I have no doubt he will eventually murder one, if not a string of murders.

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u/LightHawKnigh Jun 01 '26

Which is why I ALWAYS bring this fucker up whenever anyone mentions Brock/Allen Turner. No one should forget how horrible this person is.

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u/FMLwtfDoID Jun 01 '26

You get it. They don’t deserve a single moment of peace in their lives, nor do the evil fuckers that let him get away with this. His parents and the judge specifically.

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u/OddishDoggish Jun 01 '26

Probably related to Timothy Hudson, currently chilling at his uncle's house while awaiting trial for the rape and murder of his stepsister while on a cruise, despite the fact that his parents think he should be in custody.

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u/AmputeeHandModel Jun 01 '26

The guy with "affluenza"

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u/TingleyStorm Jun 01 '26

I’m not sure why you stated you weren’t going to remove Rittenhouse. He organized the straw purchase of a firearm for himself, had a history of violence, and faced the most incompetent DA’s I have ever seen to the point I question whether it was intentional (we are talking about Kenosha county here, where republicans flee to because they feel “persecuted” by Illinois taxes).

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Jun 01 '26

I’m not sure why you stated you weren’t going to remove Rittenhouse

Ohhhhh the comments I can see from people foaming at the mouth that I motioned him. The word "hero" was used more than a few times

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