Rittenhouse Trial Rant

[Ninurta]

I have noticed a few things on my feed. Those lamenting the outcome of the case have nothing original to say. Simply recycled, feeble talking points from the news. Bring up a counter point or point out it isn't true and the "discussion" changes to another talking point. Zero engagement. This is expected because what they say is not their thought but someone else's. How do you reach someone bereft of their own cognitive agency? Kind of depressing.

I've noticed the same thing, as well as a super-contortionist effort to maintain the narrative that this was somehow "racist". One white guy shooting 3 white guys who were trying to burn a city down and kill him, and they will make herculean efforts to turn that "racist".

They generally trot out the old "well what if Kyle Rittenhouse had been black?" Well what if he HAD? He wasn't, so we will never know, now will we? They should confine themselves to examples that actually support the narrative they are trying to generate, rather than attempting to "fundamentally transform" a story that has no bearing on it whatsoever.

This is why they can't win an argument, and why they are so easily shut down. It's also why they have to change the talking points every time they are countered, because they cannot defend their point and must abandon it. It's also the reason they have to shut down any dissenting views - any dissent at all destroys their carefully, if twistedly, crafted arguments forthwith.

@"BIAD" likes to quote Some Guy, and it's just as true now as it was when first uttered - "they're not sending their best".

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