r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/MGLLN • 21h ago

Could probably hear the “FOH!!” from space

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u/same_old_dude 18h ago

Ummm. I'm a lefty and believe she would be out relatively quickly based on the fact that the mental illness she was suffering from is temporary. Not sure how that's a right wing thing. In MA they would have to continually prove she is a danger to keep her.

And to be clear, I think she should be out if her mental health allows it.

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u/PortraitOnFire 13h ago

You think she should be out of her mental health allows it? She killed 3 children. Where she needs to be is prison.

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u/same_old_dude 13h ago

I disagree.

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u/PortraitOnFire 12h ago

lol okay

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u/same_old_dude 12h ago

As did 11/12 jurors...

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u/PortraitOnFire 10h ago

The method of deciding right from wrong by counting the number of people in favor of a proposition does not make it inherently correct.

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u/same_old_dude 10h ago

Nobody is saying it was right. Jesus Christ.

Those 12 people are more qualified to determine criminal responsibility than 99.99999% of anybody on the Internet arguing with me about.

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u/Wide-Deal-8971 9h ago

Do you agree with everything 11/12 redditors say? Cuz man, let me tell you

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u/same_old_dude 9h ago

Show me an example of when redditors specifically have more information on a topic than almost anybody else in the world and 11/12 of them agree. And if you could, are you saying you wouldn't agree with the 11/12? They'd probably be right...

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u/BlenderBluid 8h ago

Right. This feels very MAGA level “cOmMoN sEnSe” and now we’re just throwing expertise out the window because it’s information that’s hard to wrestle with.

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u/PortraitOnFire 8h ago

Whose expertise?

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u/BlenderBluid 8h ago

The jurors who were given evidence, arguments, and dedicated time to wrestle with it all that the general public does not and will never have. I’m not asking for blind faith, I’m asking us to genuinely consider that there are 12 people who simply know more than we do. They have much more ground to stand on than us random Reddit folk debating with fellow strangers online. And if 92% of those jurors came away with the same conclusion, it should be heavily considered. And if we’re holding strong to the 1 juror who happens to agree with our point and thinking that’s all we need to feel good about how critically we made our conclusion, then we’re no different than MAGA.

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u/kylepo 12h ago

If she's a threat to others, yeah. If she isn't a threat to others, then why waste government resources keeping her locked up?

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u/PortraitOnFire 10h ago

She killed 3 children, that’s why. She’s literally already proven she’s a threat to others.

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u/kylepo 10h ago

Cool, well, we're talking about a hypothetical future where she's successfully treated and deemed by medical professionals to no longer be a threat to others. You're saying that she should remain locked up after that point, which seems kinda pointless.

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u/ratfink_111 15h ago

Because that’s highly unlikely to happen. There are strict, exhaustive psychiatric evaluations she will have to go through to determine her mental state - and it’s intense. To think she’ll be out in a year takes the stance she wasn’t in psychosis in the first place.

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u/same_old_dude 13h ago edited 13h ago

It's a right wing thing because that's highly unlikely to happen? I don't follow.

Also, certainly disagree that it takes the stance that she wasn't in psychosis. It was nearly 3 years ago, for a condition that doesn't usually last more than a few months.

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u/ratfink_111 13h ago

No that’s not I said. And okay. Didn’t know you were here psychiatrist.

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u/same_old_dude 13h ago

Either you yourself are a (terrible) psychiatrist. Or this is an hilariously hypocritical statement.