US man who killed woman by driving car through BLM protest pleads guilty - eviltoast

Dawit Kelete, 30, pleads guilty to multiple charges after hitting two protesters, one fatally, during 2020 protest in Seattle

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    Just a reminder that less than a week before Trump took office, Fox posted a compilation video of cars running into protestors. Set to Ludacris’ Move, Bitch, Get Out da Way, they encouraged people to “Study the technique; it may prove useful in the next four years.” They only removed the article from their website seven months later, after Heather Heyer was murdered in Charlottesville.

    The GOP repeatedly and continually practices stochastic terrorism, riling up their base and giving them targets to take their anger out on.

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        Not that different from shooting somebody if you are afraid for your life. A deadly weapon is a deadly weapon. It doesn’t stop people like Darryl Brooks from being total psychopaths and getting convicted.

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          it does give a green light for people to claim to be afraid when theres was nothing to be afraid of. “oh no people exercising their first amendment rights. im so afraid.” vroom vroom

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        The right wing part of the united states has always been a shitfest. In the 60s they lynched black people because they wanted equal treatment. In the 30s they killed women when they got the right to vote. Before then they rebelled against the US and killed millions of Americans to try to keep slavery. Before then they burned women as witches… Basically they have been garbage humans forever.

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        We’ve always had garbage people but the problem is unfettered capitalism literally rewards narcissistic sociopathic behavior and we for some reason decided to make that the dominant system. Which means the worst amongst us have the most power and resources and help set the tone. Those people then attract the terribly misguided like Lee Atwater (US example) and religious zealots (evangelicals in the US) who propagate the message that self-interest is all that matters.

        For the record I’m not anti-capitalist, but we did let the whole idea get out of control from the very beginning and I think it has a lot to do with the decline. Not to mention the coming death of hundreds of millions due to climate change.

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        It went down the shitter when white people started helping & defending other racial groups, and the racist whites, feeling backed into a corner, lashed out in all directions at the same time.