horrifying attack on Jussie Smollett

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Skeptic Tank said:
I knew this story was a hoax and that it would conclude amusingly, but the particulars of how the hoax was done are proving to be even more in line with my worldview and even more amusing than I had expected.

Delightful.
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Come on, man. We've got Nigerian MAGA ninja bodybuilder actors now! This is anime level action!
 
This is funny, on Twitter if you search Chicago PD- Latest news.

You get all of these updated articles, and the first comments always seem to be 'Cue the Racists'. Trying to scare people away from stating the obvious. You don't have to be racist to think this story is fake. People who are race activists however, should be outraged at Smollett, not at the people doubting his story.
 
LTC8K6 said:
Theory being floated by CWBChicago is that CPD had Smollett's phone records all along and when Smollett provided his redacted records, they just investigated what Smollett redacted. IOW, Smollett pointed out where they needed to look by redacting calls.

Sounds too good to be true, though.
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Some people are frightfully ignorant of how a police investigation works. Our prisons are full of them.
 
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ned-Jussie-Smollett-attack-says-innocent.html

Olabinjo and Abimbola Osundairo were picked up at Chicago O'Hare Airport on Wednesday

The pair had just arrived back from Nigeria when they were taken into custody

Both are actors and Ola appeared on Empire in 2015 as an extra

They are friends with Smollett, who follows them on Instagram, and sometimes work out with them

Both brothers shared photos and videos from their trip to Nigeria on Instagram

Their lawyer says they are innocent and are 'baffled' by the allegations

Chicago PD will not confirm source claims they are investigating the attack as a hoax

They said on Friday that Smollett was still being treated 'as a victim and not a suspect'

Police are now treating the two brothers as potential suspects and not persons of interest but neither has been charged
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To be clear: Smollett came up with this and asked them to help him stage it, paid them and offered them repeated reassurances that’s they had no chance of being found out. He likely suggested and bankrolled the Nigeria trip, thinking it made them gettin found out even less likely. In reality, it made it even more suspicious.

That’s all my (correct) speculation.

Re: people super puzzled by things like the brothers leaving evidence around their apartment to be found, and Jussie super obviously deleting specifically their phone numbers from his call history, I have seen this time and time again and used to be a victim of it too.

I think one of the hardest challenges the human imagination can ever do is to be asked to imagine what it’s like to be extremely simple minded while residing in the brain of a highly intelligent person.

Those of us on a forum like this, on both sides of the political spectrum, simply have a very hard time imagining what it’s like to be dumb and lack introspection. A constant, active, complex, deep and reflective mental life is such a fundamental part of our experience of what it means to be human that we project it and assume it across the entire species. Some even project it on pets, etc.

In truth, this sort of mental framework is exceptionally unique and recent in this planet’s very long history of producing lifeforms. In fact, within the human species itself, it is almost not present at all and getting rarer.
 
The latest confirmed reporting: 2 questioned in Jussie Smollett attack in custody, Chicago police say.

Horrifying Black on Black violence! A modern day lynching by Africans on African Americans.

Thank you to all the skeptics who kept us in line....

/lolz!
 
Don't mistake the silence from the left as admitting defeat; they're frantically thinking up a narrative in which the white man is still in the frame, just now he's pushed further down the line. If they can't figure anything out then, slavery.
 
Has the Court of Public Opinion now rendered its verdict using the few scraps of information it has been thrown, woven into a lattice of assumption and supposition?
 
Thermal said:
Dude, what the hell? You snip out WilliamParchers post, without a link, and try to claim it was from LTC8K6? You really think no one would catch that?
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I was mistaken.

I asked William Parcher whether Smollett had ever said his attacker was white, LTC8K6 responded to the question, I wasn't looking at the posters too closely and was reading it as a continuous back and forth. I did not intend any deception.
 
baron said:
Don't mistake the silence from the left as admitting defeat; they're frantically thinking up a narrative in which the white man is still in the frame, just now he's pushed further down the line. If they can't figure anything out then, slavery.
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What about those of us on the left who never really felt this story had much going for it but noted that it excited a response from posters* who had already shown they were predisposed to racist commentary? What are we thinking up?



*17 posts from Skeptic Tank in this thread. Is he from Chicago or just a big Empire fan?
 
Silly Green Monkey said:
Has the Court of Public Opinion now rendered its verdict using the few scraps of information it has been thrown, woven into a lattice of assumption and supposition?
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Not yet, but I think we can hit 2000 posts on the subject before the CPD actually tell us what they think happened.
 
Police will want to get the two brothers to testify against Smollett. They could present all the phone evidence and physical evidence they want, but if they get into court and testify that they never coordinated this with Smollett...

Oh god why doesn't he just admit it? I'm really starting to feel bad for the guy.
 
baron said:
Don't mistake the silence from the left as admitting defeat; they're frantically thinking up a narrative in which the white man is still in the frame, just now he's pushed further down the line. If they can't figure anything out then, slavery.
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Internalized racism...yea, that's it.
 
Stout said:
In that link there's a statement that Juicy said his attackers were white.
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There's a statement by TMZ and a link to another article by TMZ. I have not yet seen a specific quote from Smollett with that statement. In the article they point to their "Jussie Sources" without specifying who those sources are or what their relationship may be to Jussie. They do not even claim to have gotten a direct quote from Smollett.

TMZ, as I hope we've all learned over the course of this investigation, is not a great news source and has been inaccurate about a number of details.

It's TMZ, a gossip rag, take it with some salt.
 
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