Matthew Beddingfield, 22, who pleaded guilty to assaulting or impeding officers on Jan. 6, was identified by online sleuths who got a lead with facial recognition.

Matthew Beddingfield, 22, who pleaded guilty to assaulting or impeding officers on Jan. 6, was identified by online sleuths who got a lead with facial recognition.

  • Hazdaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    2 years ago

    Keep on focusing on meaningless things such as race and missing the forest for the trees. Then wonder why with nearly every election, Democrats are just barely scraping a win even though their opponents are goddamn fascists. You shouldn’t ever lose to a fascist in America, and just barely squeezing out a win is nothing to be proud of.

    There are very real voters who are drawn to Trump and thinking that all of them are old, white people is ignorant and dangerous.

    https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/the-deep-origins-of-latino-support-for-trump

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/racism-isnt-everyones-priority/617108/

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/06/briefing/asian-americans-conservative-republican.html

    And go Google Image Search Proud Boys and tell me those people are old. Because that is another endlessly overuse cliche that all these right wing lunatics are senior citizens and supposedly once they die off, we won’t have much to worry about. That is incredibly wrong.

    • Whiskey PickleEnglish
      62·
      2 years ago

      Keep on focusing on meaningless things such as race

      wow, that’s some real white privilege you got there to think race is meaningless

      oh, and you can stow the rest of your whining, as any rational person can see it as the straw man deflection it really is.

      • Hazdaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        36·
        2 years ago

        Oh look a shiny ball! Go focus on the shiny ball all while the ruling class fuck everyone over. Simpletons are the ruling class’ wet dream.

        • Whiskey PickleEnglish
          61·
          2 years ago

          is repeating the same tired talking point while hurling insults supposed to make you sound clever?

            • Whiskey PickleEnglish
              61·
              2 years ago

              for someone who fails to grasp the intersection of race and class dynamics to call others “simpletons” and “tools” only makes a joke of themselves. thanks for the laugh.

        • aidan@lemmy.worldMEnglish
          41·
          2 years ago

          Please try to phrase your arguments in a less aggressive and intentionally inflammatory way. You weren’t insulting anyone directly but it was on the line, and just encourages a culture or toxicity and ragebaiting.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      2 years ago

      Do you really think he would have only gotten three years if he was black? Because data shows otherwise. Systemic racism is real and it is a problem. Especially when it comes to putting people in prison, the slavery system which is still legal in this country.