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Cake day: July 30th, 2023

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  • This is such a farce that I hear about all the time in the true crime podcasts I listen to. Prosecutors find themselves with a case that has no direct evidence pointing to their guy and 9 times out of 10 they pull a jailhouse informant out of the woodwork at the 11th hour claiming that their guy confessed (to a complete stranger) every little detail of their crime.

    Meanwhile whenever someone who may have any sort of criminal record comes on the stand to defend the defendent, prosecutors claim they can’t possibly be trustworthy because they have a record.

    It’s a clear “heads I win, tails you lose” situation in the courtroom most of the time.













  • Maybe lawyers would line up to bring a suit but you’re still looking at a multi year case and potentially having to move to a new city and switch schools in the meantime. What does parading children in front of cameras solve when these kids are still considered innocent in the eyes of the law? Do you think someone legitimately planning an attack is going to be swayed by the possibility of being on TV or having their picture posted online and not the prison/death sentence that comes with an actual attack?

    A viable solution is to pass laws that make it so guns aren’t so plentiful and easy to obtain along with making it easier and cheaper to obtain mental healthcare, but that’ll never happen. Everything else will just be a poorly thought-out bandaid that doesn’t solve the root of the issue.


  • As if filing and winning a lawsuit is that easy or obtainable, not to mention this is after the damage is done and some innocent kid is completely ostracized from the community.

    The kid was showing this stuff off so that means they were going to shoot a school up? This could easily describe some weeb who was trying to look cool and then had kids call him a school shooter. In my K-12 days 20+ years ago, the weird kids were constantly joked about as being potential school shooters. It only takes one person misinterpreting/hearing these jokes to ruin someone’s life.