Last Week Tonight 9x28- Election conspiracy theories and attempts to overturn the 2020 and 2022 United States elections Full Reaction!
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When I say I'm knee deep in true crime I mean more than just the videos. I try and interact with the family, and see the families side of it all. It's not entertainment purposes, and I generally don't like watching stories based off of true events. I tend to do a lot of research on the internet, and read articles,and court documents, the most
Natasha G
2022-11-08 04:03:16 +0000 UTCI'll just offer a bit of a different perspective: nobody is above the law sounds nice, but isn't a reality people are allowed to get away with technically illegal things all the time (jaywalking, speeding, etc) so really it just depends on the law and discretion if an officer catches it. I won't get into it too much, but there are much more serious things that are "above the law" whether it's someone getting away with something, can't be prosecuted, or the law is so problematic that it can't be enforced. When it comes to true crime, just keep in mind that no matter how the filmmakers portray it, it's an entertainment piece, with a narrative crafted via editing, interview prompts, and presentation. There are numerous rules aroud what when where how and in front of whom can be presented in the actual court designed by and large to favor the defendant (presumption of innocence, requirement of conviction beyond reasonable doubt, ability to review all state's evidence and chain of custody, even defense going after prosecution in arguments to present arguments and witnesses to debunk falsities and get the benefit of recency bias, etc ). It's not a foolproof system, but on the whole it allows an innocent accused plenty of opportunity to avoid conviction. True crime creators aren't bound by any of those rules, and I've seen too many narratives and revisions their stories. Just a fair warning, I hope you do take legal classes if you are interested, but be ready to lose some entertainment value from the true crime genre for the same reasons having been to war, I can't watch most war movies without tearing my hair out over how "none of this is how it actually works!" (I'm the same way with legal dramas, cop shows, car movies and a few other things, so entertainment options become limited lol)
Leo K
2022-11-08 03:36:31 +0000 UTCI'm very critical of cops, even though I do have a cop next door-and glad for safety measures in general. It's important to have people know that no one is above the law. Especially cops. I am knee deep in true crime, in general-and might take law classes. A lot of cases are botched because of poor police work, incompetence, or corruption. All three are very real, and need to be examined.
Natasha G
2022-11-08 03:07:18 +0000 UTC1 glad to clear that up. 2 it still amazes me how blind people can be to their own confirmation bias. Picking out anecdotal evidence and somehow extrapolating that on a very diverse population is always problematic. I'm not sure which system you're referring to for cops. Criminal justice system is broken in its own way, but that's too broad and includes too many things outside just law enforcement and it you mean individual departments, we're back to plurality problem of hundreds of municipal, state, and federal agencies that face different challenges, constituents, and crimes and cannot be reasonably bundled as one system. 3 flat earth is just not a good analogy. You're taking a socially constructed event and comparing it to a scientifically provable concept. If you want to compare it to something silly, you could've taken it the Big Foot route. Now, that's something easy to dismiss as ridiculous because you're not forced to go look for it, so you laugh and go about your life, except now there are people in or seeking to be in power that are exploiting it and enough people are listening about how there's definitely a Big Foot and powers that be are just covering up it's existence and feed it missing children, maybe it's time to talk to the folks and see if there's a way to address their concerns before they form a crowd with pitchforks and go demand that Bigfoot sympathizers be burned until he comes out of hiding, especially when the alternative to engaging them is doing nothing and accepting the worst outcome
Leo K
2022-11-08 02:23:33 +0000 UTC1. Ah. Didn't see any explosives but that makes sense. 2. There's no comparison of people's legitimate criticism of the role of cops in society to racial hatred. People aren't born cops. They choose it as their profession. And the criticism isn’t about the individual cop but the system they work under. Even if a cop wants to do the right thing, they work within a system that won’t allow it. There are multiple instances of actual good cops stopping their colleagues from using excessive force and getting fired for it. And the most illegal thing I’ve done is jaywalk and yet I’ve had cops profile me, try to frame me for a crime, and threaten me. And I have it better than most non-white people I know. 3. By that logic, people who dismiss flat earth conspiracies are responsible for those conspiracy theorists digging their feet in even further. The actuality is that these people don’t want to recognize the overwhelming amount of evidence that they’re wrong.
Eric Reacts
2022-11-08 01:50:50 +0000 UTCA few things: 1, you seem genuinely confused about the rifle, it's a normal gun, they're just shooting thermite, which explodes on impact; 2, the whole "cops are bad" side remarks are hypocritically bigoted and bother me as someone who is a part of that community, I'd think that you would be self aware enough to understand how wrong it is to take a population of hundreds of thousands of people from every background imaginable and paint them with the same brush (substitute "cops" with "Asians" or "YouTube reactors" if that helps); 3, the instant dismissiveness of the election fraud allegations is how you get people to dig in deeper into conspiracy theories. Consider putting yourself in the shoes of someone who genuinely believes they saw something untoward happen, reported it to an official and were dismissed. That's where you would go online and to your party's rallies to voice your accusations of fraud and cover-up. Not to say we can follow through every single allegation or prove to people's satisfaction a negative, but dismissing it without even giving it a second thought only reaffirms the belief that there's cheating and a cover-up, which is why all these things are happening.
Leo K
2022-11-08 00:49:56 +0000 UTC
