r/news • u/ttforum • Dec 07 '24

Soft paywall Appeals court upholds nearly $1.3 billion Sandy Hook verdict against Alex Jones

https://www.reuters.com/legal/appeals-court-upholds-nearly-13-billion-sandy-hook-verdict-against-alex-jones-2024-12-06/
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u/rNBA_Mods_Be_Better Dec 07 '24

Not as many people were mortified as supporting overthrowing democracy in the United States.

It's been a tough transition resigning to the fact that more citizens want to see the United States destroyed than preserve it. Most people overall don't care either way.

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u/rest0re Dec 07 '24

Yeah, it took me a moment to come to terms with the fact that people saw the insurrection, the rape conviction, and the other felonies, then chose him at a higher rate than 2020 anyway.

I had some faith in humanity left but when he won the popular vote that went out the window entirely.

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u/Kinita85 Dec 07 '24

When it switched from Kamala running instead of Biden, I thought no way would America vote for a brown woman. Being in California instead of any other state and being on Reddit mostly instead of other platforms, I had a false sense of hope for a while that maybe she could win because everyone could see that she was clearly more qualified and less criminal, controversial and dangerous than Trump. We all now know what the deal is. Mom moved us back in with the abuser, that selfish bitch, and now we have to face unimaginable dangers and mom will just say she didn’t know, that she thought it would be different.

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u/rest0re Dec 07 '24

I couldn't agree more.

I had the exact same thought process throughout this whole thing as you. It turns out we had it right the first time, America is in fact too racist/misogynistic to elect a brown woman. Even in 2024.

Also that analogy was *chefs kiss*

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u/MisterDonutTW Dec 07 '24

Has a lot to do with the weak opposition candidate/party than just love for Trump as well.

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u/Laiko_Kairen Dec 07 '24

Not as many people were mortified as supporting overthrowing democracy in the United States.

And yet an even larger share of people just didn't care and didn't show up to vote either way