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ecib  ·  3731 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Darron Wilson not indicted

    I didn't ask a question or ask for debate.

But you did tell him to his screen that there is zero chance that he's listening to reason.

In reality, there were so many reasons to believe in advance the outcome, starting with the prosecutor making the exceedingly rare choice of not asking for an indictment. Then making the rare choice of not presenting the grand jury just the evidence needed to establish probable cause. Then the series of calculated leaks from the grand jury well before the decision all supporting a pro-Darren Wilson narrative. Then the unprecedented step of declaring a state of emergency in advance where no emergency existed.

If I had to put money on it, I'd say the actual unreasonable position would be believing in advance any other outcome than the one we got.





bioemerl  ·  3730 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I was commenting on the fact that when you literally state you have made the decision on something before-hand, you are not listening to reason.

All the stuff you say are things you should listen to and reason with before making up your mind. Not after.