The case was nothing but grey areas. What's disappointing yet unsurprising are the number of normalfags on social media who were so incredibly cock-sure that he was definitely guilty or definitely innocent.
The truth is it's not the most reasoned voices that get the most exposure, but the loudest and most confident voices. I think every high-inhib low SMV male knows what it's like to exercise verbal restraint when one is unsure of an answer, only for a couple of dumb and loud voices to suck all the air out of a discussion.
Also a few notes:
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The truth is it's not the most reasoned voices that get the most exposure, but the loudest and most confident voices. I think every high-inhib low SMV male knows what it's like to exercise verbal restraint when one is unsure of an answer, only for a couple of dumb and loud voices to suck all the air out of a discussion.
Also a few notes:
- So-called progressives clearly don't know shit about due process. To me, the telling moment was when the prosecutor was rebuked by the judge for making a comment about Rittenhouse's post-arrest silence. Redditors and SJWs took it as evidence that Schroeder was biased.
- But what they don't understand is that the Fifth Amendment prohibits the formation of an adverse inference from a criminal defendant's exercise of their privilege against self-incrimination (see Griffin v. California (1965)), and this is incorporated to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment. This also extends to the sentencing phase of a trial; see Mitchell v. United States (1999). Consequently, a prosecutor cannot comment on nor can a jury infer guilt from a defendant's decision to remain silent. It was right that the prosecution was reprimanded.
- Conservatives are celebrating way too early. That Kyle was acquitted by the state does not prevent the Biden administration's Justice Department from prosecuting him at the federal level with a wider array of tools than would be available to the state. The "dual sovereignty" exception to the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause has been a longstanding part of American jurisprudence for well over a century. And unlike most state and local judges and prosecutors, federal judges and prosecutors are appointed and not elected, and so they give less shits about what the public thinks.
- Lastly, I'm convinced that live cameras should be banned from courtrooms, which is the way that the federal courts operate. No clue why some state and local court systems allow the news media to turn high-profile trials into circuses. It clearly doesn't assist in the administration of justice when the participants of the case have to worry about social media's perception of every single little detail of their actions as opposed to focusing 100% of their attention on the judge and jury.
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