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[–] [email protected] 248 points 3 days ago

If it’s a legitimate assault, the male body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.

[–] [email protected] 152 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you carry a sign reading "you deserve to be raped" then you can't complain about being clubbed on the head, because you obviously are a waste of genetic material

[–] [email protected] 107 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I think "you deserve to be hit over the head with a baseball bat" is an understandable response to "you deserve to be raped".

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'd say, it's too mild a response, but anything within the line, I guess.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There was once a time when "Fighting Words" were a viable defense in cases like these, and that sign certainly qualifies as fighting words.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's ridiculous that it's not a viable defense now. They've empowered bullies from childhood onwards.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Because the state has a monopoly on violence.

You are not allowed to do violence yourself, you must petition the government to do violence for you. And the government will decide how and when it is appropriate to do violence on your behalf.

So, for example, a white nationalist Nazi saying all women deserve to be raped is not a justifiable reason to do violence.

But a brown person living peacefully where oil is IS reason to do violence. Ok?

A group of people demanding that all LGBTQ+ people be sterilized or executed, no reason to do violence.

Those people defending themselves, now we need to do violence. Got it?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I assume you are right, but has anyone actually tried it?

*goes to check wikipedia*

In Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), even speech such as "Bury the removeds" and "Send the Jews back to Israel," was held to be protected speech under the First Amendment in a per curiam decision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_words

Oh. I guess I was right to assume that you were right in saying that it's not a viable defense to things like that. Ugh. Depressing. I was so hoping to be wrong in assuming you're right.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

thems be fightin' words

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago

I mean, strutting around with his cranium exposed like that, it was only a matter of time.

[–] [email protected] 104 points 3 days ago (4 children)

No one deserves to be hurt. Unfortunately, some people do ask for it.

This guy was absolutely asking for it.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He did deserve it. If you advocate for pointless violence you deserve it back at you.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

No, he deserves to be rehabilitated in a facility that can reeducate him from his backwards beliefs.

Unfortunately we are limited by our material conditions, so instead he gets hit with a baseball bat.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"Look, I have neither the time nor the resources to teach you a lesson, so I'm just gonna have to beat the lesson into you with this bat."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

a little operant conditioning when we're short on time and long on baseball bats

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This guy was absolutely asking for it.

Literally yes. It seems people are unfamiliar with this type of grift, which was made popular by the Westboro Baptist Church. Show up somewhere and say the most inflammatory (but not directly threatening) things possible until somebody gets fed up and assaults you, then sue that person for damages.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (6 children)

You know, there's a secret trick to not getting sued for assaulting them...

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago

Sneak into thier house and poison all of thier food?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I disagree. There are definitely people who deserve to be hurt.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

I'd argue quite a number of people deserve to be hurt, and this prick is definitely one of them.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Tabitha Brubaker has been charged felony assault and marijuana possession

Boooo, fuck off with the weed charge on there too

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

He pressed charges over that? I hurt myself worse at work and walk it off. That guy's a bitch.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 3 days ago

Your body, my choice to hit it with a baseball bat.

[–] AlecSadler 82 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Only the good die young I've heard

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago (2 children)
  • Pinochet: 91
  • Reagan: 93
  • Thatcher: 87
  • Kissinger: 100
  • Mugabe: 95
  • Sheldon Adelson: 87

Checks out.

[–] heavydust 22 points 3 days ago (4 children)

In France we have Jean-Marie Le Pen. He tortured people and was friends with nazis. He's 96 and still alive.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

For any wondering, no, that's not a coincidence. He is Marine Le Pen's father.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Counterpoint: Jimmy Carter made it to 100.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

True, and Betty White to 99, just a couple weeks plus change from her 100th.

They're very much the EXCEPTION rather than the rule, though..

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

That is absolutely horrific, disgusting and vile. Has anyone checked if the bat is ok?

[–] brown567 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He's still standing in the picture, we should let her try again

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[–] prole 18 points 2 days ago

I literally said "FUCK YES" out loud when I read this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Ya head's a freakin' bat magnet!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago

Grass grows, birds fly, and brother? I BONK people

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Kecessa 14 points 3 days ago

"I shouldn't have stuck around" he said...

Captain obvious right there

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Where's the damn video? Aluminum or a Louisville Slugger? Hopefully she's a softball player.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

There's a video in this article of the moment, tho you can't see her hit him. He's holding the camera and she walks up behind him and clocks him. From the sound of it, the bat was aluminum

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I sure hope her bat didn’t get dented, it can be a real pain to find one that swings just right.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (2 children)

BONK go to ~~horny~~ actual jail

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

I think she used the baseball bat incorrectly in this particular situation. Opportunity missed!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

Hit him again.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

I mean, if anyone deserves to be raped it is someone holding a sign threatening rape

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

Now time to be around him with a sign reading, “You deserve to be hit on the head with a bat.” I’m certain he’d agree.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

I've been playing far too much brawl stars. I heard the "wack" in my head and exhaled air out muh nose. 10/10

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