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That video is tainted. No custody of evidence. The shooter had 48 hours to edit the video.
Sync up the video /audio to thwle dozen others and see if things line up? How much time was removed from the phone?
If the video conveniently "proved" his claims of self defense, you'd have a point. But it clearly doesn't. It shows he murdered her and his claims of self defense are a blatant lie. You're literally arguing "well maybe it was self defense because the video could have been edited by the PERPETRATOR to not show it was self defense". Like wtf?! You're arguing that the dude purposely edited the video to make himself look worse.
It still could be used as a argument by the right in that way.
And it would be a dumb fucking argument considering the 3-4 other videos that all corroborate this one. Stop being retarded and proposing half-assed "what-ifs". Besides the fact that him editing it would be tampering with evidence and IS ITS OWN CRIME. Yeah, he's just gonna admit to illegally tampering with the video to make himself look worse to create reasonable doubt..... when other videos clearly show the incident as well. Ffs, I know these people are morons but you're taking the cake.
There is really no need to use slurs.
Yeah, I don't subscribe to that euphemism treadmill bullshit. Maybe save your outrage for things that are actually offensive, like our government murdering people in cold blood, not fucking words. This neutering of our language is bullshit and yes, some things are fucking retarded and need to be called out as such. Trying to defend the shooter here is fucking retarded. I stand by what I said.
And this is why liberals hate other liberals. Were discussing a fucking murder and you're over here complaining about language. Unless you're this perfect idealized liberal, other liberals will take the time to bring you down instead of the much more pressing and bigger issue.
Seriously, fuck off with this retarded fucking shit. We NEED words for when things are so ass backwards and anti-logical. I'm not gonna sit here and wish that we "unalive the meanies". Grow a fucking spine.
It is immoral, ignorant, and shortsighted but i fail to see how it has anything to do with retardation. If you arent using that term clinically, which is antiquated these days anyways, then you are using it as a slur. Which is very unnecessary. I'm not mad but i do think our use of language matters. Your use of that word also makes you look shortsighted and ignorant. Your defense of it makes you also look immoral.
Edit: my point being we already have much more descriptive words for this and the use of slurs makes you look just a ignorant as them.
Now go make yourself useful and kill a fascist
Few arguments:
My cousin has downs, she's retarded, but isn't an idiot, she's lovely to be around. Using a word that describes something she was born with to describe the negative choices someone has made is insulting.
We do have other words to describe when things are so back-asswards and anti-logical. Hell, make up your own completely new word, use some creativity.
Just because there's a larger issue, doesn't mean we should ignore a smaller issue, especially when the smaller issue is so fucking easy to solve. It's like not cleaning your bathroom because racism exists.
And then the new word becomes taboo when someone misses that. It's the Euphemism Treadmill. Like first sentence of my post. But obviously you're too retarded to read that part. I don't play that bullshit game. It's... (wait for it)... RETARDED.
So what. People don't like you using a word that describes them to call other people idiots. Just don't use the word, it's super easy.
Edit: this guy DMed me "retard." Fascinating behavior.