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Either The Post Millennial is providing a skewed version of events, or a defense attorney just defeated Andy Ngo's civil case against two of his attackers through blatant juror intimidation. I tend to assume the media takes things out of context, especially openly partisan media, but it's hard for me to believe that a lawyer wearing an "I am Antifa" t-shirt every day in court, rather than formal attire, is anything other than a breach of protocol. Maybe the "I will remember all your faces" line was taken out of context, and she was just talking about her photographic memory. Maybe the Post Millennial was exaggerating when they said that the arguments were all ad hominem attacks. Or maybe this really is as bad as it seems.
Regardless, I'm surprised that the Motte isn't talking about the case.
The Motte misses huge swathes of juicy culture war items that I consume a constant stream of elsewhere (attending with low value commentary unfortunately, unlike here).
I’d top post it to this weekly but I often don’t have either the time or the motivation to words words words contextualize the bare reference links. Maybe I’ll use ChatGPT or a local LLM to automate this.
*Butlerian Jihad intesifies*
Look, I too am a culture war junkie, and indeed what we talk about here is but a small fraction of all the outrageous shit happening every day, but I actually appreciate the restraint people show here... or, as it turns out, the words words words filtering effect. "Can you believe what Those People did this week?" is explicitly posted in the intro text as an example of something we should be trying to avoid, and I could go on at length about the negative effect on the quality of discourse and viewpoint diversity this would have, but more importantly - all of this shit is the same story over and over, there's nothing interesting to learn from it anymore, so spamming it here will just make the place more boring.
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