• Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Why in the fuck are we suddenly cheering extrajudicial killing just because, for once, it wasn’t someone from our side?

    … Oh, yeah okay, it wasn’t someone from our side. For once.

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      2 months ago

      Play stupid games; win stupid prizes. He had a gun and resisted arrest. They’re the ones who promoted this society and tough guy police in the first place. People see some poetic karma.

      Sorry bud, I’m not losing sleep over this one.

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      2 months ago

      The same reason we cheered when Luigi (allegedly) shot the UH CEO.

      Some people make the world a better place by leaving it.

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        2 months ago

        I’m not weeping over this asshole dying, it’s just tough to cheer for vigilante justice when… well, when its the police doing it.

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          I definitely get where you’re coming from. But the judicial system has so completely failed us (bullshit interpretations of laws, pushing right-wing jurisprudence, ignoring obvious corruption of SCOTUS justices, not holding Trump responsible for fucking *anything") that it’s hard to not be satisfied when one of these traitors gets any kind of justice.