1/ Thread about how what happened in Charlottesville was probably not an intentional attack. I know this was common knowledge on rw twitter a while ago but the Charlottesville civil trial is happening soon so thought I would remind everyone. This is not meant to glorify JAF.
2/ To set the scene, Fields was forced to turn left onto a one way road, that is blocked by two cars. He backs up before eventually driving forward into the crowd killing Heather Heyer. Many people dubbed this a terrorist attack, but there are many facts the put that in doubt.
3/ First of all he wasn't going very fast. According to Wikipedia, "The speed was estimated between 23–28 miles per hour" If he was planning to kill people, he would probably be going faster than a speed at which someone who was struck was likely to survive.
4/ Also, he simply went forward into the crowd and backed up rather than driving on to the sidewalk, aiming for individuals, or going in for a second hit instead of backing up.
5/ In addition, he braked right before hitting the crowd, definitely contrary to wanting to intentionally kill people!
6/ Compare this speed and aim to the Nice truck attack where he was driving fast, and swerving to hit people: reuters.com/article/us-eur…
7/Fields demeanor after the incident was not consistent with a terrorist attack, repeatedly apologizing:
10/Contrast this to the New York truck attack where Sayfullo Saipov asked to display an ISIS flag in the hospital businessinsider.com/nyc-terrorist-…
11/His behavior before the attack was also generally not consistent with a terrorist attack. He looked for directions to get home right before the incident:
12/There was a meme that he posted about someone driving through protests that looks damming at first glance. But this was posted before the rally was even planned,
13/ It was also shared by thousands of other people. Memes about running over protestors blocking roads were common even from normie conservatives during 2016-17. Everyone was fed up with that shit.
14/ Other than memes, there was no manifesto, suicide note or direct plan for what happened here. There was also evidence he had planned events after the rally.
16/ Another things the prosecution said was that he was menacingly backing up with the crowd in front of him.
15/ But he was backing up BEFORE the crowd had marched in front of the two cars.
16/ This was confirmed by the aerial drone footage, that was just released. In the box you can see his car backing up before the crowd has even walked on to the street he is on. Link here: thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/exclus…
17/ So why did he end up driving into the crowd? He panicked and was boxxed in by people who knew he was alt-right and would love nothing more than to see him brutally killed?
18/ The far left believes that it is acceptable to "punch a nazi" is it far fetched to think that he would have been beaten to death if he stopped his car?
19/ Fields was startled when the car was hit with a bat and panicked.
21/ @AnnCoulter was one of the few commentators courageous to push back on the Charlottesville narrative, discussing other ppl attacked in cars townhall.com/columnists/ann…
22/ I don't know what legal responsibility Fields would have in a sane world, but clearly not the charges the court ruled him guilty of. He had a lawyer that likely would have done a better job, but he was tossed of the case because it was consider a conflict of interest that ...
23/ he was suing to keep the Lee statue that the case was originally about, so Fields got stuck with some lawyers who ended up doing poorly. archive.is/alwpP
25/ If you disagree on anything PLEASE challenge me. If you agree PLEASE spread this around, to crush the leftist narrative.
26/ In the future just a few blurbs of the Trump era will be put into the history textbook, and this “attack” will probably be one. But you will know you are being gaslit.
27/ I don’t know how anyone could believe the narrative looking at the actual facts. The innocence projects spends its time trying to free black murders and rapists like Rodney Reed. If they had a shred of integrity they would focus on this case, but I won’t hold me breath.
Also, should't have to say this, but this is not meant to disrespect Heather Heyer, or to glorifying Nazism.
Hey @CassandraRules I remember you being interested in this case last Summer, correct?
1/ THREAD on demographics of final teams in the World and European cups. This cup's final features the mostly castizo Argentinian team, facing off against the 92% white Spanish team with two prominent players with African ancestry.
2/ In the 2024 European cup, the mostly white Spanish team beat the half white English team.
3/ In 2022, the castizo Argentinian team beat the 48% black, 32% white French team in penalty kicks.
Survey that compared the opinions of the general public to expert criminologists. Only 9.4% of criminologists support the death penalty.
88% of criminologists believe solving social problems are more important for reducing crime over hiring more law enforcement. Criminologists as a whole are much less sympathetic to gun rights.
Overall most criminologists think the criminal justice system is unfair while the general public thinks it is fair.
1/ THREAD. There are two common narratives about the labor market: one that employers can't find workers and the other that employees can't find work. I wanted to read and do a thread on this book to continue to try to parse these contradictory narratives.
1/ Thread looking at paper from 2014 from dissecting claims of a labor shortage. This data is all old at this point but we see similar narratives today. On one side people claiming a labor shortage and on the other side, college graduates claiming they can't get jobs.
2/ The idea that America is falling behind in skills goes back a long time.
Some excerpts from WSJ article about the 10 million population cap referendum in Switzerland. The journal admits the historic wave of immigration to the West hasn't solved economic problems:
Economics professor from Canada admits that immigration hasn't solved Canada's problems.
Economic output per worker has stagnated across some of the countries that have accepted the most immigrants.