Vance posted the lie days before Trump lost his damn mind in the debate.
It might have been both of them, but Vance was way out front of it.
The context makes this statement different.
The above is the victim's mother, who begged her not to marry her murderer. She says this after stating she found divorce papers in her daughter car after her death, which led her to believe he killed her because she was planning on leaving him.
The above is a statement trying to help women to avoid brutal men to begin with, not blaming them for being victims. It's saying "if he does this kind of shit, don't put up with it like my daughter did. Get out immediately."
At no point in her excuses did she say she was joking. She said she is gay and a POC, that she is scared of the consequences of her actions, and that if she was Haitian she would be upset.
She actually never even says she was sorry, just weasel words like "it just exploded" and "this was not my intent" and "was never meant to be seen outside of Springfield."
She minimizes, back tracks and redirects blame, but never once says the words "I'm sorry" or "it was a joke that got out of hand."
Those are the actions of a bigot running away from consequences, not a person who made an earnest mistake and is remorseful.
The judge gave her drastically under the minimum recommendation sentence because she thought it was too harsh for the circumstances:
explaining her sentencing decision, Chu said the case was unusual, and that Potter made a "tragic mistake" of thinking that she drew her taser instead of her firearm while in a chaotic situation.[11][140] Chu expressed that it was "one of the saddest cases I’ve had on my 20 years on the bench".[141]
I think they reduced it from 10 years to 2 years. The 16 months was parole.
Personally I think she should have served the 10 years. Her and her partner pulled him over for having an air freshener on his rearview mirror and he got upset. When she and her partner were handcuffing him, she yelled "Taser! Taser!" And instead pulled her actual gun and fired it into his chest. She murdered that young man, a father, because she was an idiot.
The most egregious part? She was a police trainer. She literally trained cops about policy and process, and still fucked it up. She was actually training the cop with her at the time when she murdered Wright.
Read her comment. There were no jokes in it.
You can be a gay person of color and a bigot at the same time. It's pretty stupid, but it happens.
Punk is intense, high energy and rebellious. It has a unique freedom around it, as you take ownership of your life. The community is accepting and mutual aid is common. It speaks truth to power with no regard for consequences.
They like the vibe of all of those things, but don't want to give up bigotry and accept all people, help others, put themselves and what they have on the line, or stand up to authority to get there.
So they just pose as the "new" punk while living none of it.
The evidence that shes racist is the incredibly racist post she made.
Her post is incredibly racist hearsay from 3 people removed (her neighbor's daughter's friend). It describes a vile act that casts fault on 20k people in her local community.
Shes expressing remorse because she did something vile and racist and now has everyone in the world looking at her and her actions.
She doesn't have anything to gain like Trump/Vance, so shes afraid she will have consequences in her life now that her racism and hate is so public. After the multiple days of bomb threats that have cleared local schools and city Hall, the fear has set in.
That's it. She didn't apologize out of a sense of decency or remorse. Her apology is:
"Well I'm biracial and gay, so I can't be racist."
"I also didn't realize this hate would go national, and now that the world is attacking these people and might attack me, I realize what I did was wrong."
"I'm so scared what I did will affect me, please don't let it."
That's not remorse. That's someone running from the ugly thing they did, hoping to escape any consequence.
Its worst than the qoute. She posted a story her neighbor told her about her daughter's friend's cat. So the source of the story was 3 layers of people removed from her.
When the news reached out to the neighbor, she said that it was an acquaintance of a friend, so even less reliable.
So yes, wholley racist, even as she claims it wasn't. She was pissed at legal migrants moving into her community, and spread racist rumors about them to feed that anger.
Didn't they make 10-100s millions of dollars on this? Pays a lot of salaries while you make new paid content.
EDIT : They made at least 12 million sales on steam, and had 7 million players on Xbox, which may be Gamepass, but still makes them money.
So at $30, that's 66million from steam minus 30% for steams cut, so they banked 44 million at least.
They can pay 440 devs 100k for at least a year. I assume their team is a bit smaller than that, so they likely have years of runway. Linkedin lists size as between 50-200 in japan, so that likely means they are making $50-70k, and there are likely more than 100 devs. I would guess they have a 4 year runway from Steam sales, and maybe 1-2 year from Gamepass.
They got some time to think.
Corporations hide crimes all the time, even when they are the victims. If the crime will lose them money in any way, either directly or from a reputation hit, it's very likely a company will not report it.
It only because the employees involved had their NDAs expire and confirmed they saw some very fucked up things that we know what he did.
Twitch fired him publicly when he was one of their biggest streamers. It's fully possible the explicitly sexual messages are a crime, but the parties involved, including the minor victim, did not want it reported.
You can argue amazon should have reported it anyway if it rose to that level, but with none of the involved parties forcing the issue, it makes sense from a buisness stance not to.