Let's talk about Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, and how unbelievably fucked up this all is

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lol

man down (D-40), Thursday, 12 April 2012 23:51 (twelve years ago) link

not news

BEMORE SUPER FABBY (contenderizer), Thursday, 12 April 2012 23:51 (twelve years ago) link

whiney otm

pleural eff u son (k3vin k.), Thursday, 12 April 2012 23:55 (twelve years ago) link

Fuck y'all

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 13 April 2012 00:16 (twelve years ago) link

it's ok hoos i believe the twitter is real

kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Friday, 13 April 2012 00:18 (twelve years ago) link

If they were real, it would show a level of recklessness that boggles the mind. A man on trial for 2nd degree murder, who knows his every move will be publicized and dissected on national tv, doesn't spout off to the public like that. I suspect they are fake. Sniff test fail.

Aimless, Friday, 13 April 2012 00:24 (twelve years ago) link

the most convincing part is the first tweet link to a donations page littered with quotations by edmund burke, henrik ibsen, thomas paine and james loewen

BEMORE SUPER FABBY (contenderizer), Friday, 13 April 2012 00:25 (twelve years ago) link

the most convincing part is the first tweet link to a donations page littered with quotations by edmund burke, henrik ibsen, thomas paine and james loewen
--BEMORE SUPER FABBY (contenderizer)

Aka the website that's been acknowledged as real by his attorneys

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 13 April 2012 00:27 (twelve years ago) link

I still love you, HOOS

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 April 2012 00:28 (twelve years ago) link

Aka the website that's been acknowledged as real by his attorneys

wheels within wheels

BEMORE SUPER FABBY (contenderizer), Friday, 13 April 2012 00:29 (twelve years ago) link

haha i was waiting for whiney to go thermonuke on ya'll

lebron traveled (am0n), Friday, 13 April 2012 00:33 (twelve years ago) link

If they were real, it would show a level of recklessness that boggles the mind. A man on trial for 2nd degree murder, who knows his every move will be publicized and dissected on national tv, doesn't spout off to the public like that. I suspect they are fake. Sniff test fail.

right Zimmerman has shown himself to be a paragon of self-restraint and sound judgement

THE SPACEMENT TAPES (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 13 April 2012 00:39 (twelve years ago) link

this appeared overnight in my neighborhood a week or so back

http://oi43.tinypic.com/2je4vup.jpg

lebron traveled (am0n), Friday, 13 April 2012 00:51 (twelve years ago) link

When someone has a gun in his hand and the safety off, it should never be "an accident". Pulling the gun out is a declaration of intent to harm.

Aimless, Friday, 13 April 2012 01:30 (twelve years ago) link

not attaching much significance to stray turns of phrase in live interviews

BEMORE SUPER FABBY (contenderizer), Friday, 13 April 2012 01:32 (twelve years ago) link

DUI crashes are "accidents," too, and they often kill people, and they are crimes.

i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 13 April 2012 01:33 (twelve years ago) link

pretty strong viral ad from skittles there

J0rdan S., Friday, 13 April 2012 01:35 (twelve years ago) link

fucking pisses me off that that one word is going to be what people pick up and run with

BEMORE SUPER FABBY (contenderizer), Friday, 13 April 2012 01:35 (twelve years ago) link

skittles?

J0rdan S., Friday, 13 April 2012 01:37 (twelve years ago) link

That one word is obviously inapplicable, whatever Trayvon's mom may have said. So it is irrelevant that she said it.

Aimless, Friday, 13 April 2012 01:40 (twelve years ago) link

Struck me last night, very idly wondering about the twitter account and the website that something like the following might be happening.

i: GZ's first clownshow lawyers (rtd) said the website was "authentic"
ii: plainly this needn't mean GZ actually coded, designed or wrote any of it -- or necessarily picked the grafitti image, let alone riffled thru his big book of handy Ibsen quotes etc, just that at some point he OK'd it.
iii: my speculation is that as GZ was peekin fearfully thru the curtains sometime somewhere muttering omg omg omfg, 1 x Passing Savvy Grifter suggested to him the notion of a support website, complete with paypal donation button etc. "To tell your side of the story to the world!"
iv: GZ: "yes! a website! with paypal! what's paypal? where do you get a website? etc"
v: PSG then said, don't sweat it, I'll design it for you. And did so, and showed to ZG, who was amazed and grateful and excited and did not for one second see any of what might be coming...
vi: PSG then said, we will also need a twitter account to juice up traffic and etc, and set this up too
vii: GZ is -- let us stipulate -- several hoods short of a klanmeet when it comes to brains, foresight, self-awareness etc, and has very enthusiastically signed off on all this, perhaps even passing on a few tidbits of his upcoming media appointments (viz the Hannity info), to give it substance.

In my model, PSG, whoever s/he may be, is not (necessarily) ideologically in sync with GZ at all. He is however entirely in sync with that donations paypal account. And quite happy short-term to tweet stuff that keeps the traffic going, however much it harms GZ medium-term.

GZ may or may not ever have had the keys to that twitter account. He may well have forgotten that it was ever proposed; or even known it came into existence.

mark s, Friday, 13 April 2012 12:21 (twelve years ago) link

My work here is done.

mark s, Friday, 13 April 2012 12:27 (twelve years ago) link

sounds plausible to me

THE SPACEMENT TAPES (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 13 April 2012 12:39 (twelve years ago) link

if only there was a way to stop hypothesizing and wait for the truth to come out

da croupier, Friday, 13 April 2012 12:46 (twelve years ago) link

If only there was someone to help keep threads in line, make sure that only acceptable content was posted, a 'police' figure of sorts, hmmmmmmmmmmm

THE SPACEMENT TAPES (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 13 April 2012 12:52 (twelve years ago) link

who will be volunteer to be the "Zimmerman" figure I wonder

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 April 2012 13:08 (twelve years ago) link

I know I've spent too much time on ILX when I start misreading CNN.com headlines as "Rodney King pleads for clam"

an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Friday, 13 April 2012 13:10 (twelve years ago) link

Can't we all just get abalone?

s.clover, Friday, 13 April 2012 13:17 (twelve years ago) link

I know I've spent too much time on ILX when I start misreading CNN.com headlines as "Rodney King pleads for clam"
--an independent online phenomenon (DJP)

This made my morning ty sir

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 13 April 2012 14:20 (twelve years ago) link

kat stacks tweets from jail, recommended follow

lag∞n, Friday, 13 April 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link

a lot of reality doesn't pass the sniff test, including zimmerman's lawyers, the GOP presidential primary candidates, the bush years; etc. the only rational conclusion is that reality is fake. should've voted "we’re living in a simulation and it gets shut down" in the human extinction scenarios poll.

HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 13 April 2012 14:42 (twelve years ago) link

Should've voted "Robocop turns into a documentary"

Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 13 April 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link

Zimmerman is someone whose solution to potentially getting his ass handed to him by a fifteen-year-old was to open fire. Imo there is literally nothing too stupid or too crazy for this man to be capable of.

when will Jesus bring the composition chops? (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 13 April 2012 14:56 (twelve years ago) link

hey lets have a 100-post thread about whether @horse_ebooks is a real horse

easter back, somebody call the binks truck (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 13 April 2012 14:57 (twelve years ago) link

seriously think all that Community watching has turned everyone into idiots around here

easter back, somebody call the binks truck (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 13 April 2012 14:58 (twelve years ago) link

BIG RUSE aka the website that's been acknowledged as real by his attorneys

lebron traveled (am0n), Friday, 13 April 2012 14:58 (twelve years ago) link

(I mean I might be twisting the facts...? I know there's a huge racial element there also, but at the end of the day, that p much is how the whole thing seems to have played out...? Xp)

when will Jesus bring the composition chops? (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 13 April 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago) link

Imo there is literally nothing too stupid or too crazy for this man to be capable of.

― when will Jesus bring the composition chops? (loves laboured breathing), Friday, April 13, 2012 10:56 AM

what does have to do with a fake twitter account full of obvious punchlines

lebron traveled (am0n), Friday, 13 April 2012 15:01 (twelve years ago) link

"he's capable of anything" = "zimmerman did 9/11!"

lebron traveled (am0n), Friday, 13 April 2012 15:04 (twelve years ago) link

Blinding insight

when will Jesus bring the composition chops? (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 13 April 2012 15:05 (twelve years ago) link

Idly I said and idly I meant: I just kinda liked the idea that Zimmerman had handed his support fund over to someone who was entirely focused on stealing it all, partly via the medium of a p crappy fake twitter account. But reality shares Whiney's lack of imagination, and hurrah for that, eh?

mark s, Friday, 13 April 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link

Here's some cool jackoff fodder for libertarian nutballs to blow out of proportion

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20120409/ARTICLES/120409617/1182?Title=Man-tells-police-group-yelled-8216-Trayvon-then-beat-him

easter back, somebody call the binks truck (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 13 April 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link

that seems like a Chappelle's show skit. "Kobe!"

you can expect punches, kicks and even worse (frogbs), Friday, 13 April 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link

A group of men got out and told him he was walking too slowly, the victim told police

lol

Jilly Boel and the Eltones (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 13 April 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link

he was walking all stiff and rigid, wearing a polo shirt with a popped collar, no choice there but to beat his ass

you can expect punches, kicks and even worse (frogbs), Friday, 13 April 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link

this happened in b'more recently and 99% of the comments i've seen are "racially motivated!! where's jesse and al? where are the protest marches?"

http://www.wusa9.com/news/article/201153/189/VIDEO-Graphic-Footage-Of-Tourist-Beaten-Robbed

lebron traveled (am0n), Friday, 13 April 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.billoreilly.com/video?chartID=554&vid=-810468373713394813
White Baltimore tourist beaten and robbed, mob laughs
Sunday April 8, 2012
The assailants proudly posted video of the assault on YouTube but, unlike the Trayvon Martin case, there have been no protest marches

lebron traveled (am0n), Friday, 13 April 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link

Other than the fact that the cases bear no similarity at all and the police don't even know who to arrest yet in the Balty case, you're absolutely right, Bill :/

Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 13 April 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link


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