Leftists view White people as the only race that has agency, and everyone else on the planet basically as animals just existing in a state of nature. The leftist is deeply confused when you ask why the Africans are not figuring shit out on their own.
They truly believe that the duty of the White race is to sacrifice for everyone else, as a form of reparations for the crime of breaking from the great chain of history and committing the evils of colonialism. They have no understanding of history beyond the Triangle Slave Trade, the Colonial Era, and World War 2. Everything is viewed through that triangle of events, with nothing being allowed to break through that paradigm.
There's reddit users on r/math that think openai is secretely hiring mathematicians to prove open conjectures, passing them off as if chatgpt solved them
She spent four years in an Italian prison for a murder she didn't commit. The man whose DNA was actually found inside the victim's body served less time than she did for a crime he confessed to being present for.
Amanda Knox was a 20-year-old University of Washington student who moved to Perugia, Italy, in 2007 to study abroad, sharing a four-bedroom apartment with three other women, including Meredith Kercher, a 21-year-old exchange student from England. On November 1, 2007, Kercher was sexually assaulted and murdered in her bedroom, her throat slit, her body left partially clothed. The apartment had been staged to look like a burglary gone wrong.
Amanda had spent that night at her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito's apartment. When she returned home the next morning and found blood in the bathroom and Kercher's door locked, she called the police herself.
What followed became one of the most sensationalized murder trials of the century, and one built on almost no physical evidence connecting Amanda to the actual crime scene. Police interrogated her for hours without a lawyer or a proper interpreter present, and eventually extracted a confession implicating her boss, Patrick Lumumba, a bar owner with a solid alibi who was released within two weeks. Amanda later said she signed that false statement after exhaustion, police pressure, and being struck during questioning. She immediately retracted it, but the damage to how the world would see her was already done.
Italian and international media ran with her University MySpace nickname, "Foxy Knoxy," and spun an entire narrative around her supposed promiscuity and a violent sex game gone wrong, despite conclusive physical evidence pointing elsewhere. Meanwhile, the actual DNA evidence told a very different story. A man named Rudy Guede, whose DNA was found on bloody fingerprints at the scene and inside Kercher's body itself, was identified through fingerprint records and caught fleeing to Germany. Guede claimed he'd been in the bathroom when an unidentified man entered and killed Kercher, then fled the country out of fear rather than call police.
Despite Guede's DNA being the only forensic evidence directly tying anyone to the assault, Italian prosecutors focused their case on Amanda and Raffaele. In December 2009, both were convicted of murder and sexual violence. Amanda was sentenced to 26 years. She sobbed as the verdict was read. Guede, tried separately, was convicted the year before and sentenced to 30 years, later reduced to just 16 on appeal. He was released in 2021, after serving 13 years, less time than the length of Amanda's original sentence for a murder forensic evidence never actually placed her at.
In 2011, an appellate court found the physical evidence against Amanda and Raffaele deeply unreliable, court-appointed experts testified that police had badly mishandled the crime scene, contaminating and mislabeling key evidence. Their convictions were overturned. Amanda walked free after almost four years behind bars and returned to the United States.
The case wasn't over. In 2013, Italy's Supreme Court ordered a shocking retrial. In 2014, an appeals court convicted Amanda again, in absentia, since she was already back in America and refused to return. Finally, in March 2015, Italy's highest court, the Court of Cassation, threw out the convictions permanently, citing what it called "stunning flaws" in the original investigation. Amanda and Raffaele were declared innocent for good.
#drthehistories
my hot take is that i unfortunately understand what teachers meant by 'one person can ruin something for everyone' because i actually think cons should automatically ban IRL streaming and street interview-type creators from getting convention access at this point
I never considered that "room temperature IQ" refers to fahrenheit, I thought the point was that someone is a braindead slug creature with an IQ of 20, which is so much better