A system in which the rich are exempt from the law is not a two-tiered system of justice; it’s a system in which justice does not meaningfully exist.
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Well I certainly would, if I had nothing better to do.
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If it is a thing, it’s also an amazingly good argument for a wealth tax and other measures to reduce inequality.
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Um… Par for the course?
Don’t forget he also paralyzed one of his passengers. Sergio Molina can now communicate only by blinking. I wonder if he’s forgiven Couch yet?
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[PITCHFORK EMPORIUM COPYPASTA]
Who was the sentencing judge for this walking turd? Have they been removed from the bench yet?
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I read somewhere (probably a TIL) that Grey Poupon is made from low quality ingredients (thinks hot dogs made from hog anus) and the whole Rolls Royce ad campaign was to dress up a shitty product to get people who don’t know any better to buy it. I suppose rich people can be just as vain and susceptible to being tricked by advertising. But self made rich people probably don’t have time to watch a lot of TV.
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This is all explained in Vox’s “Why rappers love Grey Poupon”:
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When I was a kid we didn’t have shop class, and I don’t know anyone under the age of 60 with the skills and equipment necessary to assemble a spice rack. Maker culture isn’t new, it’s recovering something old, something that used to afford us a modicum of independence and self-sufficiency. It’s not a solution to capitalism, but it is opening new avenues for people to exit a life of alienated labor, and promoting an ethos where we support one another in that. If we’re in a burning building, it’s giving some of us the pocket of air we need to think about where an extinguisher might be.
Rage porn is that just inviting you to open another beer.
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I see a White House position in the young man’s near future (unless, perhaps, he manages to obtain a security clearance).
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Yes. That’s an explanation, but it’s no kind of an excuse.
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Hey @SeamusBellamy, sorry, but is the arsehole’s name Ethan or Dylan? Your post has both.
Also, it’s probably no consolation to anyone, but I suspect this kid will die of overdose and/or alcohol poisoning in the near future.
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Thanks for posting that link.
For the TLDR folk,
Critics charged that Boyd had given a free pass to Couch because he was white and wealthy, noting that in 2004, Boyd sentenced Eric Miller, a sixteen-year-old from a poor family, to twenty years imprisonment for killing one person while driving drunk.[10] The 2004 case did differ to some extent from the Couch case, though, in that the defendant in the 2004 case committed a separate felony on the night in question, stealing a truck. However, in Couch’s case, he had stolen a truck from his father, which was viewed as a lesser offense.
So…she stepped down a year after she gave Ethan Couch such a light sentence.
As for the impotent rage, I felt the same way but after reading this link, I assume Boyd retired after the backlash from her light sentence for Couch.
In cases like this, I also think it’s important to say the names of the victims killed by Couch: Breanna Mitchells, Hollie Boyles and her daughter Shelby, and Brian Jennings. I won’t bother to mention the people who were drinking with him and voluntarily rode with him.
But I will also quote this,
At the age of fifteen, Couch was cited for “minor in consumption of alcohol” and “minor in possession of alcohol,” after he was caught in a parked pick-up truck with a naked, passed out 14-year-old girl.
If we talk about him and not his victims, then we help him win. If we always talk about his victims, then we always link him to his hideous actons and choices.
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