He earned entry to law school, won elected office in San Francisco and was featured in sympathetic coverage by national media outlets including ABC and USA Today, who allowed him to explain how his life was nearly ruined due to women making false allegations against him
It's not enough that we don't believe women, but then instead platform potential sex pests (at the very least) for being accused of sex crimes. The epitome of rape culture, that leads to the deaths and abuse of countless women.
E: while my initial comment stands, the more I read about this guy, the worse it gets - he had stalked an ex (and was abusing his wife who he later murdered), and was barred from campus, but at least one of the women he claimed falsely accused him leading to the expulsion didn't even know what he was talking about.
He's basically fighting windmills of his own making in an attempt to deflect from his own behaviour, like so many abusers do, but he definitely took it to the next level with a publicity tour and being poster boy for MRAs.
The sad reality is that Rachel might have been saved if we didn't exist in a world that ignores all of the warning signs of gendered violence.
I’m glad he got off on the first two charges, but his lawyer argues that the third charge, “shooting in an occupied dwelling” shouldn’t be applicable since it was deemed self defence. The judge will be hearing arguments for this next month.^[newsio.com/…/alan-colie-man-who-shot-youtube-pran…]
Also, dude’s now spent 6 months in jail, only to be found not guilty of at least 2/3rds of the charges. Is there any compensation he’ll get for those missing months of his life? He’s already been punished, and yet he’s still presumed innocent.
The jury found Alan Colie not guilty of aggravated malicious wounding or use of a firearm for aggravated malicious wounding, however, he was found guilty of firing a gun inside the mall.
Quick correction, he was found guilty of discharging a firearm in a building, the other charge “use of firearm for aggravated malicious wounding” was one of the two the jury found him not guilty on.
To be clear, the court has already said he was perfectly justified from the self-defense perspective. I look forward to it clearing him of the “firing indoors” nonsense.
The same charge pending judge review due to its inconsistency with having acted in self-defense?
Colie’s defense attorney, Adam Pouilliard, said the conviction on the firearms charge is inconsistent with the law, given Colie’s acquittal on self-defense grounds. He asked the judge to set aside the conviction. A judge will hear arguments on the issue at a hearing next month.
As we’ve covered, the same charge I look forward to the court clearing him of next month. If you’re still having trouble with the concept beyond this, I’m going to leave it to you to figure out.
It sounds like we both are saying that he was found guilty but both are looking forward to what the court says, I’m not sure why you’re being disagreeable.
That’s why in most places only hollow point bullets are legal for self defence. They are designed to mushroom out and break up when they hit something. This makes them ideal self defence rounds for 2 reasons. They have a ton more stopping power against an unarmored tarket (odds are your mugger isn’t wearing kevlar). Aditionally they usually don’t really survive going through walls. Even just sheet rock walls are usually enough to completely kill the momentum of any fragments that might make it though. If you use FMJ rounds for self defence then you’re going to catch a completely different charge.
More that the nature of the indoors location had an increased likelihood of hitting a innocent bystander.
Maybe you’re more justified in somebody if it’s a 2-on-1 situation and you feel like your life is threatened, but pull out a gun and start blasting and you also put the lives of anyone within a certain distance around your target in danger.
Given the lack of apparent weapons on the “assailants”, drawing on them might have been sufficient to disengage and assess without actually needing to fire the weapon at all
If some random idiot wants to try and fuck with me and I don’t know them and I TEL THEM TO STOP and they persist. They get whatever I give them. If I have my kids they get no warning. I don’t fucking play and I don’t care about them. My safety and that of my kids is first. Do NOT FUCK WITH STRANGERS. PERIOD.
No man. Just doing fucking mess with people. End of the story. You want to act like a loon go for it. Those actions have consequences. I’m under no obligation to make sure you aren’t hurt for acting a fool neither is anyone else in this world. Stop acting like a cunt because people don’t want to or will not put up with being harassed. My first instinct isn’t to harm someone and least of all kill them. However I won’t fuck around if my safety or children’s safety is potentially at risk.
Just because a 21 year old YouTube prankster has the mental and emotional capacity of a teenager, does not make them a teenager. They should know better.
Yup. Every company will follow the same model. Why wouldn’t they when it was clearly successful. Not everyone accepted it, I canceled Netflix, more because of a lack of content that didn’t justify the price if I couldn’t share it.
Slowly more and more will be raising the black flag and soon some new service will come out, and the cycle will repeat itself.
|Among the arguments are that the program violates the Fifth Amendment’s “takings” clause because it allows Medicare to obtain manufacturers’ patented drugs, which are private property, without paying fair market value under the threat of serious penalties.|
This is an invalid argument, because currently the companies are receiving unfairly inflated market value, and Medicare plans to negotiate down to a fair level.
The Candian government has done this for years. Drug prices in Canada are often a fraction of what they cost in the US.
The drug companies swore that they would stop selling drugs in Canada if they weren’t allowed to set prices in Canada as high at possible buy they’re so fucking greedy that they will take $5 of profit instead of $1,000 and instead of withdrawing from the market and making $0.
What frustrates me is schools are frequently very willing to spend money on sports related expenses. A librarian left a a New Hampshire school $4 million dollars. They spent $100,000 on the library and $1 million on a new scoreboard (source) In the vast majority of states the highest paid employee is a football coach (source). Local governments don’t really care about education and because local governments are typically elected to me that means American citizens don’t really care about education either.
We’re at a point where, in my opinion, that’s analogous to someone smoking and chewing tobacco their whole life and then being shocked when they’re diagnosed with cancer.
I know that comes across as sanctimonious and that isn’t my intention I’m just frustrated with amount of willful ignorance in our society.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I agree. I just felt the need to point out that there are still a great many people who value education but are not part of the solution, due to ignorance (ironically), apathy, or hopelessness.
I don’t know of any addict of any substance, including food, who is surprised. I’m sure it happens, but in my underserved area, living to seventy or older is the real surprise.
The school you’re talking about is my alma mater, what they did is even worse then you describe.
That librarian was neurodivergent and left his savings to the university at which he worked with no specific restrictions.
The university execs wanted to use the money on sports, and directed the advancement department to create a narrative to support that decision. They found a mention he enjoyed watching sports at the nursing home during the last months of his life.
Close friends said he wasn’t interested in sports at all - he loved numbers and statistics, and at the end of his life at a nursing home the only numbers he could get to were baseball statistics. He couldn’t care less about the sport, he just liked the math.
UNH rewrote his life and personality to justify spending his gift on athletics.
That’s a frustrating read but I’m glad I got to see a glimpse of the man who was just a random bit of trivia rattling around in my head. I’m going to try to remember Robert Morin as a kind man who loved learning and generosity. To me those are wonderful traits. And I’m willing to bet that the name Robert Morin will live on in that library for generations to come. Thanks for posting this.
I’m not sure how that fits in this discussion. We’re talking about how a donation was spent. If that donation can be used to generate a stream of money to be used instead of simply used up all at once, it’s advantageous to do so.
I’ve heard that argument. I see the point at least a little. I personally don’t find it convincing. If game attendance is high enough it should be able to fund itself. If it isn’t then I believe those monies could be more productive elsewhere.
People shouldn’t downvote you though because they disagree with you though. You’re just offering your own personal perspective.
Wow, I’m not going to lie. Out of sheer morbid curiosity I’d really be interested in seeing how that sausage gets made. You should consider keeping a journal and maybe writing a memoir someday. A kitchen confidential for nonprofits.
Here’s some of my most recent ones, they piss me off:
One useless parasite who hasn’t done any work in 15 years is on the payroll at $300K/year. Literally did no work for years. That person’s work now consists of organizing meetings (no more than 1 per week, often with months of no activity).
Similarly, one person who retired 10 years ago is still paid quarter time, which works out to about $120K/year. His sole activity is attending meetings once every few months.
Routine “housing allowances” paid to higher ups. $100K for a mortgage went to a completely worthless individual.
Higher ups expensing dinners for themselves with literally $200 bottles of wine. Any fucking occasion, gotta throw a party - “retirements”, someone joining, someone leaving, fucking birthdays, so-and-so won an award, etc.
edit: nepotism. Oh my fuck, the nepotism. Hire so-and-so’s spouse as a “consultant” when I myself could have done the work for no extra money and 1/50th the time. But no, let’s waste $60K on a worthless consultant that has no goddamn domain knowledge and possibly fewer than 3 firing neurons.
It comes down to flagrant elitism and rampant entitlement. “We deserve it because we’re so fucking awesome”. And it gets worse than what I’ve written here. I manage a fucking nonprofit that’s supposed to help people in dire need, people who will die without us.
I honestly think a publisher might be interested in a book like this. You should consider it. They have people to help with the writing and if you’re ethical and give a coauthored credit I bet there’s a ghostwriter out there who would love to publish a good old fashioned muckraker with you.
I’ve stopped giving charity except to local food banks and schools (and I give the schools prepackaged snacks for the kids). Because I see how the money is used. And the assholes I work for have the nerve to ask EMPLOYEES to make contributions. As if I can’t see all this shit.
Yeah I stopped doing the corporate charity bullshit. No I won’t round up my purchase to some foundation run by a nephew of the CEO. If this matters so much to this corporation they can pay for it.
It’s worse than that. A lot of school boards are run by right-wing assholes because a lot of Americans are very concerned about education in the sense that they want to prevent children from learning anything about how the world actually works.
Also stop making us pay for our own supplies. We can’t write off more than $300 of class materials on our taxes too - maybe she could add some pencils to her routine to make them a legitimate business expense.
Bruh. I live in a wealthy-ass community, in a wealthy-ass state, and i still bought school supplies for my kindergartner’s class. Like, not for my kid - for the entire class. Shit’s completely fucked. And education here is like 99th percentile.
I get $300 a year for classroom supplies, etc. can’t spend it on xyz. Can’t buy a personal printer but can buy ink with it. Can’t buy candy/food/etc unless it is tied to a specific lesson plan where that is integral to the lesson and not simply a reward. Lot of it goes to napkins/tissues/pencils/etc. for students.
Teachers are decently paid in some places, like where I live, but, yeah, definitely not in a conservative place. Don’t want to attract any highly educated people and have to keep the ones who do it for the love of teaching so destitute that they don’t have the energy to put into fighting the political crap.
Badly written headline. There is a man targetted the MeToo movement who was defended by the Trump administration. Now that man has been accused of dismembering his girlfriend.
It’s just a somewhat poorly-written headline. It’s about a guy - not Trump - who was supposedly victimized by the Me Too movement. And all-too-predictably, it turns out the guy - not Trump - is probably a psychotic murderer. Because that’s the sort of guy Trump likes.
I hate this two sentence headline format (“John Doe did blankety-blank. Now he’s yadda yadda whatever”) almost as much as I hate seeing headlines with the words, “slam,” “rip,” and “sparks outrage.”
Yeah, those are the worst. I’m like, “Look, I’m a news-interested person, and I want to know about this guy. Just give me a headline that interests me without it seeming like you’re trying to trick me.”
I posted an archive link in another comment here. But no it’s not Trump being accused of murder. It’s some other guy, Joseph Carl Roberts, that “was once touted by the Trump administration as a poster child for the purported excesses of the #MeToo movement and the reckoning over sexual assault at American colleges.” Now he killed someone and has been charged for it.
For all the people saying this is simply a badly written title.
Do you actually believe that?
Why is it that all these "badly written" titles, also happen to be designed to instill an outrage reaction?
It's not a coincidence or accident. All these "badly written" titles these days are done so deliberately. Just like YouTube is full of O-face thumbnails and bullshit titles, so is "the news".
For all the people saying this is simply a badly written title.
Do you actually believe that
Of course it’s badly written. What are you trying to imply?
He isn’t even named, it just says “him”. How are we supposed to know who “him” is? The only named person is Trump, so how can we be expected to think “him” means anyone else?
Just replace “him” with “this man”, and it’s still clickbait but clearer. Or hell, just put his name there. The circumstance itself is interesting enough for an article without resorting to tricks.
And I can’t seem to find a conservative anywhere who will condemn the murder of a woman by another conservative. Strange. It’s almost like they don’t see women as completely human.
I think generally to be conservative your mindset must be that you and your immediate family are important, everyone else is lesser, expendable, and pretty much only exists to meet your ends (or get in your way)
Keep Feeding the mice and see the infestation grow.
Disney:
1940: Micky Mouse! (Also Worker Strike are secretly communists!!!)
1950: Hey, come to the theater with your kids and watch Peter Pan.
1960: Hey come watch Dumbo the flying elephant!
1970: Hey, if you are not at the movies, come to our Park!
1980: Hey world, here are several parks, so you can feed the mice in your own country
1990: Hey, watch the Lion King, buy a tshirt, buy a mug, buy bedsheets, come to the park, we buy all the other studios in your interest!
2000: Hey, fat mice here, buy more of our home media that you can resell or share! Buy More Shirts! Pay us at the parks! We now work closely with FOX. See Nemo, buy all the merchandise! We merge with Citadel Broadcasting. We also bought Marvel. Suck it. Please feed the Mice!
2010: Hey Chinese, come to Shanghai Disney Resort! We made Mulan for that! We also bought Lucasfilm so we can sell everyone more Starwars and Indiana Jones spinoffs! You do not have to come to the theater anymore, you can feed the mice via Disney+ from your home! I’snt that great?! Give us more of your money and time while owning less!
2020: Hey watch our latest spinoff of a 30 year old IP while you can not own the media, you can not share our media and we increase the price without changing anything of the product – and you will like it! Feed the Mice or micky will come to your home and shank you and your family at night.
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