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Kyle Rittenhouse texts pledging to ‘murder’ shoplifters disillusion his ex-spokesperson
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2024
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I'm not seeing any messages about murdering shoplifters thought. The only examples given were:
What’s unclear about “I will fucking murder them.”?
He's talking about shooting people coming to his house but the title talks about shooting shoplifters
"The texts were in response to seeing shoplifters at a CVS pharmacy on 10 August"
When he says "I wish they would come into my house", the word they refers to the shoplifters. When he says he will murder them he is still referring to the shoplifters.
Yeah good point. Fair enough. Didn't put these two together the first time I read it.
Do you understand the difference between someone saying they would defend themselves and someone literally saying they would murder people?
Sounds like the article is a little confused, or this is brand new stuff, which is possible.
The comments about wanting to murder people that I knew about came him and a friend filming Black people leaving a cvs and them "knowing" they were all shoplifters and wanting to kill them for it. They'd just go sit outside drug stores because of propaganda and "filming subjects".
There was also the video where he tried to jump a younger girl and when 3 black guys (his age) yelled at him not to hit a young girl. He immediately fell to the ground in a fetal position and started crying and begging, literally that was his reaction to being told not to beat a young girl.
Those two examples together showed he didn't have the same basic reactions to a situation any normal human would have. And that he can't properly identify risks.
Give me a fucking break.
You think he responds to shit like a functional adult?
I will never give this useless fuck any excuse for the intentional murder he committed.
Reasons aren't excuses.
Excuses absolve guilt, reasons help us prevent it from happening again. It's a lot easier to prevent shit when you understand it