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Kyle Rittenhouse texts pledging to ‘murder’ shoplifters disillusion his ex-spokesperson
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2024
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It's not evidence of anything. Actions speak louder than words. The actions he took that day directly contradict any stated intention to shoot anyone. He used his weapon as a literal last resort all 3 times, when not doing so would have meant forfeiting his own life.
Textbook self-defense.
He created the situation he needed to escape from. That's textbook offense. You don't get to create confrontation and call it defense.
Extinguishing a fire is not provocation or confrontation.
Crossing state lines specifically to confront protestors with a deadly weapon very much is.
You mean traveling one town over, where he used to work and where his dad lives, an area he had exponentially greater ties to than any of the people who attacked him did?
Gee, wonder why you don't say it that way. Could it be because you're trying to make it sound like he traveled far out of his way to an unfamiliar area, because that helps your narrative about him 'being where he doesn't belong' (while conveniently not considering whether any of his attackers 'belonged' there)? Hoping that the technically-true "cross state lines" obscures the fact that he lived on the border of the other state?
You're absolutely transparent. Don't try this disingenuous garbage on someone who knows the facts and knows about your pathetic rhetorical maneuvers.
He confronted literally no one. And no, existing while armed in a state where open carry is legal doesn't count.
He wasn't even counter-protesting!
Do you know what "confront" means?
Funny we have him on text saying that's what he was doing and on video doing exactly that.
I don't think I'm the one in need of a dictionary.
Oh wow at first I completely missed the totally original claim that the protestors weren't from the area. Tell Fox news I said hi.
Lie. I defy you to link to that video, with timestamp, of him "doing exactly that".
It's not a 'claim'. It's a fact.