I wonder if Monsanto could sue me for painting a still life of some Roundup Ready produce.
Interesting choice of color.
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Thatâs a real nice source youâve got there.
âKilling of one human being by another. Homicide is a general term; it includes murder, manslaughter, and other criminal homicides as well as noncriminal killings. Murder is the crime of intentionally and unjustifiably killing another. In the U.S., first-degree murder is a homicide committed with premeditation or in the course of a serious felony (e.g., kidnapping). Second- and third-degree murder involve lesser degrees of intent. Manslaughter is commonly divided into voluntary (or first-degree) and involuntary (or second- and third-degree) manslaughter. The first type encompasses any homicide resulting from an intentional act done without malice or premeditation and while in the heat of passion or on sudden provocation; the second type is variously defined in different jurisdictions but often includes an element of unlawful recklessness or negligence. Noncriminal homicides include killings committed in defense of oneself or another and deaths resulting from accidents caused by persons engaged in lawful acts. See also felony and misdemeanour; self-defense.â
Zimmerman is following Martin, yet somehow Martin is the one who sneakily gets close to Zimmerman and attacks him first.
Did Martin have double-jointed shoulders, to be able to reach his arms around behind himself?
The left has traditionally upheld the rights of those victims of society - the powerless, the vulnerable, the marginalised, the persecuted. The right has traditionally been made up of the comfortably well off members of society who resent any potential threat to their privilege. âBleeding heartâ is their special term for mocking compassion for the powerless, the vulnerable, the marginalised, the persecuted.
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WaitâŚdid you just state that drug use, school problems, and âthuggish posturingâ are all reasons to deserve to die?
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Is there some particular reason you canât use a photo of a flag as a model? Does shutterstock own that particular flag wave? If weâre going to be picking all these nits, I have some leftover diatomaceous earth that might work faster.
Did he run out into the world looking for trouble and find it? Yup. Does any of this bring Trayvon Martin back from the dead? Nope. Is our collective search for vengeance a big reason why we have things like mandatory minimums and a shitty criminal justice system? Yup.
There never will be justice for Trayvon Martin. No matter what we do. I think weâve sufficiently deterred people from running out of their house in the middle of a 911 call to play Cops & Robbers. Everything else is just more of what makes the world a shitty place to live in sometimes. You donât have to forgive or forget, thatâs not a prerequisite for mercy. Mercy isnât what you hand out to people who deserve it either, thatâs justice. Mercy is what you grant to end the chain of human cruelty.
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Au contraire. To a significant portion of the U.S. population, Zimmerman is a hero. Even he himself doesnât seem to have been shamed into becoming a better person.
Are you really saying we should just leave poor Georgie Zimmerman alone, and on top of that, show him some mercy?
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A hero that demonstrated that you canât do what he did and really get away with it. And leaving him alone is mercy. I donât care if he comes out and puts dirt in his mouth and proclaims his perpetual regret. I canât ever know if heâs being sincere. Maybe he does regret it and has chosen not to express it, lest people just think heâs hamming it up. Maybe he doesnât regret it at all. But, frankly Iâm not as concerned about him as I am about what the left is doing to itself. I simply donât believe that vengeance has any value. Revenge is often worse than the crime that motivated it. Itâs the desire to hurt another to achieve emotional satisfaction. Itâs sick and Iâll have no part of it.
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I donât think itâs reasonable to characterize saying mean things about someone on the internet as ârevengeâ for either shooting someone or smacking their head against a curb.
Shooting or assaulting Zimmerman or even vandalizing his house might qualify as ârevengeâ in this case but voicing opinions about the incident doesnât. (Yes, even if theyâre not exactly flattering to poor Georgie boy.)
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Not sure what your point is. I find it illuminates a facet of his character that he would create such a close reproduction and then insinuate it is the result of his unique creativity.
From the e-bay page and his answers to questions:
I found a creative, way to express myself, my emotions and the symbols that represent my experiences.
I know its not the fanciest, but it is what we had and I needed to put these visions onto the blank canvas as soon as possible.
"if Trayvon was white, you wouldâve never heard of this case. "
Hmmmm. . . if Zimmerman was black we wouldnât have heard about the killing either, and he probably would have gone to jail too.
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What? He did get away with it. Are you saying he didnât because so many people are saying still saying mean things about him on the Internet? If so, I donât think his feelings are hurt by that. Not one bit.[quote=âActionAbe, post:136, topic:16927â]
frankly Iâm not as concerned about him as I am about what the left is doing to itself. I simply donât believe that vengeance has any value. Revenge is often worse than the crime that motivated it. Itâs the desire to hurt another to satisfaction. Itâs sick and Iâll have no part of it.
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âHurtingâ Zimmerman is not the point. Keeping in mind the fundamental injustice of what he did, and how he actually did get away with it, and may well even get rich from it, is the point. Those are the âsickâ problems that âthe leftâ concerns itself with. Another: more young black men are likely to die as a result of what Zimmerman got away with.
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To the folks to defend Zimmerman and condemn Trayvon:
I wish this hadnât become such a political incident, but that probably happened because of so much publicity. Try looking at this through both the eyes of Zimmerman and then Trayvon, and donât automatically assume Trayvon is some âgang-banging thugâ, especially since thereâs no evidence that he was anything other than a typical kid; everything conservatives cite as evidence of his supposed malevolence is common to middle class white kids too.
I donât assume Zimmerman is racist, or evil, just that he was being too vigilant, and maybe letting his ego get the best of him, itâs a very human thing to do and a lot of us could fail there. In martial arts they teach you to avoid confrontation, and the police told him to not confront Trayvon. Logically he should have gotten manslaughter, but the jury (by their own admission) thought the stand your ground law gave him an âout.â
Nah. He was a Gaul. The Franks were hanging out in Germany.
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Isnât that what Tyrion keeps asking in the later books?
Second amendment is best amendment.
Even if you are a fan of patriotic art, this isnât very good (borrowed image, monochromatic palette) so clearly people are bidding on it as some kind of collectible.
Reminds me of a certain work by artist Piero Manzoni called âMerda dâArtistaâ, so I applaud Zimmerman for what appears to actually be an ironic critique of the art world and conservative politics.
110K? for real?
maaan. and i was thinking i was gonna sell my âdigital paintingsâ (hand tweaked vector images on canvas) on 8x10 canvas board for 30 bucks!
each!
even used purchase stock or cc images too!!
(flips craft table in frustration)
lol
(sample images: http://bit.ly/1bQKtbj)
I knew that was coming soon as Iâd hit âpostâ⌠
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