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Killing of Jordan Neely

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[erros429]

!!! It's so nice to see another RWBY-related blog!! I must ask: what're your thoughts on the Penny 3.0 theory?

haha glad you stumbled upon my page! hope you enjoy the stay :)

my thoughts on penny 3.0 is that 2.0 shouldn’t have died in the first place. HOWEVER. since that did happen, i will just say that i’m very neutral on the topic. on the one hand, v9 was supposed to be a recovery/acceptance arc from The Traumas. and one of those traumas was penny’s death. so if she was brought back, i would want it to be done in a very very reasonable way that didn’t hurt the narrative or the character development.

would i love to see her again? abso-fucking-lutely!! she is my baby girl my darling my beloved my everything. i want to see her again more than ANYTHING. but i don’t want it to be done at the expense of the story. there are a couple ways that i think they could bring her back and it wouldn’t hurt the storytelling, but i guess we’ll just have to wait and see if they go through with that

[odinsblog]

On Monday, 26-year-old Daniel Penny was acquitted after killing Jordan Neely, a desperate Black homeless man on the subway, on the grounds that he was trying to protect others. On the same day, police detained 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, who is suspected of killing the CEO of a company that has denied thousands of life-saving healthcare claims.

Penny walks free after killing a man victim to the system. What will be the verdict for Mangione, who is suspected of killing a man symbolic of it?

As many have remarked, Brian Thompson’s tenure as CEO of insurance giant UnitedHealthcare was grisly. Thompson (alongside other higher-ups) allegedly conducted insider trading, selling millions of dollars of stock upon learning that the Department of Justice re-opened an antitrust investigation into UnitedHealth. While the company was on an upward profit swing, it has been awash in allegations and revelations of limiting mental health care coverage via algorithm, denying healthcare services needed after hospitalization at drastic rates via artificial intelligence, and denying insurance claims at a starkly high rate.

A gun killed Thompson. Paperwork has killed thousands.

Each case, obviously, is its own. But in each, contradictions of who is human, questions of who merits sympathy, and inquiries of what sort of society we tolerate, ring loud and clear.

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[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Kayla Katin

Published: Dec 31, 2024

Jordan Neely was murdered…by NYC Democrats’ failures

Apparently, I’ve got to be the lone voice of sanity. The veteran Marine, Daniel Penny, was found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Jordan Neely, the homeless black man that he put in a chokehold on the subway in New York last year.

I see that people are well vexed about that, so I need to come and spit some facts.

[ BLM of Greater New York co-founder Chivona Newsome was not happy about the Daniel Penny verdict. ]

The jury did the right thing. The ruling is correct. Penny is not guilty. The only problem is that he wasn’t cleared of the charges sooner. The injustice is that this trial was even a thing in the first place.

Here are the facts. Jordan Neely was being belligerent, and threatening, and launching at people, and throwing things on the fucking subway. He said that he was ready to die, wanted to go back to jail, and was going to fucking kill people. The people were scared on that train. The passengers were scared. The mothers were trying to cover their children. That is when Daniel Penny intervened and put Neely in a chokehold to restrain him.

And guess what? I really don’t see this being reported, but there were two other guys helping Daniel Penny to restrain Jordan Neely, and neither of them looks white. Plus, Penny’s fellow passengers, including a black man and black woman, have said that Neely was terrifying and that Penny did the right thing. Yet, for some reason, the media seized on a race narrative.

[ Daniel Penny restrains Jordan Neely with the help of two other men. Video of the incident can be seen here. ]

Maybe I’m mistaken but I’ve seen the video and it doesn’t look like that chokehold was strong enough to cause asphyxiation. The forensic evidence found that Jordan Neely was still alive when that NYPD finally pulled up. Cops refused to resuscitate him because he was dirty and the police understandably didn’t want to risk catching hepatitis or something. So, Jordan Neely died.

We found out that he had a fuck-ton of drugs in his system and he had underlying health issues. All of that predisposed him. But the chokehold and the stress from the struggle probably just pushed him over the edge.

Maybe he would still be alive if it weren’t for that chokehold, but it’s really unfair to try and pin his death on Daniel Penny. The intent clearly wasn’t to kill. And Jordan Neely had to be restrained in order to stop him from attacking the passengers and following up on his threats.

The media, like some fucking vultures hovering over a corpse, couldn’t wait to make this into a race issue based on literally nothing except for the skin colors of these two guys. Guess what? Around the exact same time, a black man, Jordan Williams, did basically the exact same thing as Daniel Penny, except he actually ended up stabbing the homeless guy to death, because the homeless guy was harassing the passengers on the subway and harassed his girlfriend. Jordan Williams walked free after a month, but this Daniel Penny trial took a whole year.

That’s smelling really fishy.

As a black woman in the New York area, who had a run-in with my own “Jordan Neely” last year, I am really, really, really fucking frustrated at all of this hashtagging for this nigga.

Last year on the very first day of school, I was in downtown Newark waiting for my bus home, and some lady started mumbling shit at me. At first, I was trying to reason with her, asking what was up. But then I realized, she’s too far gone, she’s clearly on some shit. So I backed away, putting some distance between me and this lady.

But she kept being belligerent toward me. I was basically just ignoring it until she pulled a fucking baseball bat out from her backpack and threatened me with it. I’m dead ass. And there were multiple fucking people standing around, also waiting at this bus stop with me, and nobody gave an F. Nobody came and did jack shit.

This went on for minutes and minutes. Eventually, one middle-aged lady did come to stand by me to protect me. She said that she has daughters my age so she felt sympathy for me. And then, finally, the bus came. I thought that would put a stop to this, but the fucking crackhead got on the damn bus with me. I thought maybe she would get out but no, no, no, she stayed on all the way to my town and got off at my same stop. Thankfully, my mom was waiting for me in the car, so I ran into that car and I told my mom what happened.

I am so, so, so, so fucking tired and frustrated by these race-baiting politicians and naive liberals, who act like some hugs and free cookies can solve all these altercations. The mentally-ill, drug-addicted, and homeless of the world can be dangerous and violent. And it's not, right or fair for the rest of us to be put in danger because of their problems.

The bitter, bitter, bitter irony of everyone calling Daniel Penny a white supremacist is that the people who are most put in danger by the Jordan Neelys of the world are other working-class black people who have no fucking choice but to use this shitty-ass public transportation.

As a black New Yorker, I will stand on this. Daniel Penny did nothing wrong. He’s a hero. He deserves a key to the city. Y’all are so desperate to follow a narrative and create another George Floyd that you’re just overlooking facts and justice and common sense.

The New York Democrats were so, so, so desperate to let Daniel Penny take the fall for their failures. They wanted this trial to be a distraction, a smoke screen from their failures to address drug addiction, homelessness, mental illness, and transit safety.

Those are all very real problems, and instead of being mad at Daniel Penny, we should be mad at the politicians. We need to get mad at the politicians, but they want to divert the people’s anger to cover their own asses. Pretending like that was an act of systemic racism is a really easy way to take our eyes off of the other systemic problems that they’re presiding over. Every single fucking politician and law enforcement official that participated in this sham trial of Daniel Penny should be required to pay him reparations out of their own damn pockets.

Oh, and I forgot to add: Jordan Neely’s family is disgusting and fake as fuck for coming out the woodwork to cry crocodile tears over his death, when they did nothing for him in his life. They didn’t give a fuck.

Some closing thoughts from my X account:

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BLM are con artists and opportunistic grifters. They don't give a shit about black people. They don't give a shit about the people Neely - on a bond after his 44th arrest - was threatening, they don't give a shit about the people who were glad Penny stepped in.

BLM always martyr the worst people in the world, seemingly because they can't find any legitimate incidents that service their narrative. Everything they have to say should be treated as a lie by default, until proven otherwise.

[eraserdude6226]

Daniel Penny found not guilty in subway chokehold trial

Daniel Penny found not guilty in subway chokehold trial

Found not guilty of criminal negligent homicide. Now comes the gnashing of the teeth from everyone who feels that this is wrong.

But a jury of peers said he was not guilty!! And since it was a jury finding, Alvin Bragg cannot bring the charges again!!

Here's the face of a loser!! Citizens of New York - please, for the love of God, vote this POS out of office in the next election!!

[projectreclaim]

Kyle Rittenhouse: "I understand better than almost anyone the joy Daniel Penny is feeling right now. Yesterday’s verdict speaks for itself—the jury got it right. I pray that Daniel gets to decide the direction of his life, not the media or bad actors. He deserves to live the life he wants to live."

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[serpensortiamaxima]

Anwen's breakdown.

(Yes this was based off that one scene in Pride and Prejudice, if anyone's wondering.)

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The ending of Sebastian's quest feels so empty that I had to add to it. I wanted to explore my MC's emotional state after everything that happened, from the adrenaline from killing Ranrok to the loss of Prof. Fig and finishing with the fear of not knowing what would happen with Sebastian until Anne gave her verdict.

As players, we know that whatever decision we take would decide of Sebastian's fate. But for the MC? They wouldn't know if all the convincing in the world would suffice. So this is the aftermath. It's after Sebastian tells her Anne spared him. In the game, it's a bittersweet but somewhat unemotional moment. Since Anwen as a character isn't the kind to show emotion, I imagine that she left the Undercroft to process everything on her own. Sebastian feels something's off about her anyway and follows her to the Underground Habour. She was about to Imperio him to leave her alone but was disarmed before she could.

For Anwen, the tears are the culmination of the overwhelm that she bottled up throughout the past months, mixed with a huge sense of relief. For Sebastian, it's the moment where the penny drops that she did care all along, despite how stoic she seemed.

[miraculouslbcnreactions]

Forget about how the characters' intellegence drops with here lies, I just realized that the Lila-Cerise stuff could have ended as soon as she started to model with Adrien. Like... hello? Stylists are an essential part for modeling? So, like, her wig should have been discovered? But then again... its a "kids show", so things must be "simple" like Simpleman...

Alright, Miraculous is supposed to be a kids show, I get it. But I wonder if there is a limit on when that is reason enough for excusing how the writing went? Or how the logic and common sense are ignored? Penny for your thoughts?

It's a fair point, but not one that I wouldn't call a slam dunk. I could buy that she told her stylist some bs like that she got lice while on a charity trip, cut her hair, and now has to wear a wig while the hair grows back. So long as it's a human-hair wig, you can style it the same way that you style hair that's growing on your head. The only issue would be if Lila's hair needed to be cut for a specific shoot, but maybe she has backup wigs! For this to out her or cause suspicion, Nathalie, Adrien, or Gabriel would need to overhear the wig talk and be concerned about it.

I will say that it is amusing how she just pulled off that wig like it was no big deal. That implies that she was taking a major risk because the wig was not properly secured! It could easily fly off during an akuma attack or gym! Maybe that's why she sat out when they were playing soccer? At the same time, this one is definitely a nitpick and not something I'd actually hold against the show. I get why they did the quick change instead of showing her properly removing the wig. It's more dramatic that way! I wouldn't even hold this against a more serious show.

Final verdict: I don't think the wig is a major issue re Lila not being outed. If anything, it's yet another case of an overlooked opportunity for foreshadowing the multiple identity reveal because holy shit did that need a better setup. It's so dumb and comes out of nowhere! If you're going to have her wear a wig, why not have someone notice the wig and let her spout some bs about why she wears it? The gullible-is-our-middle-name class would buy it in a heartbeat while the audience would be clued in that Lila obviously wears a wig for some other reason since she lies every time she opens her mouth.

[vomitdodger]

Just gonna get ahead of the Penny verdict on this one.

[amazon160]

Can the Hazbin fandom chill tf out for once??

Alastor is aroace and y’all need to get over it: a rant :)

THE VERDICT:

We shouldn’t deny that Alastor is aromantic and asexual. We should acknowledge that there is a spectrum of people in the aroace community that are capable of romantic and/or sexual feelings, but we shouldn’t use it as an excuse to immediately sexualize him and just toss the representation to the side. On the flip side, we can’t go harrassing those who do ship him or simp for him. Me personally, I’m a simp. But seeing how he is I’d rather be in a platonic relationship or simp respectfully from the shadows 👹 But yea we just need to be respectfulonallsidespleasedon’tkillme--

MY THOUGHTS BEHIND IT:

Alastor is aroace. There is a spectrum of people who identify as aroace and still have romantic or sexual feelings, just toned down much more than normal (as I’ve come to understand, at least). HOWEVER. Using that as an excuse to ship Alastor and sexualize him kinda takes away the whole POINT of him being aroace.

I also see people who identify as aroace who are angry with this argument--that using the spectrum excuse takes away from the representation. They’re kinda pissed that people are saying aroace means you have NO feelings WHATSOEVER because a spectrum does, in fact, exist.

A huge part of fandom is shipping. There’s no way around it. This fandom has been shipping Alastor with Charlie since the dawn of time. Does it go against canon Alastor? Absolutely. Is that part of the point and fun of shipping? Yes. But is it disrespectful to his sexuality and the representation? I mean, it sucks. And it’s valid to be annoyed by that.

But it’s not worth harassing people.

I’ve seen a shit ton of harassment over a CRACKSHIP. Yes, I’m talking about RadioApple. There are those who legitimately ship it, but to those who ship because it’s funny, just let them enjoy themselves. And going back to the whole spectrum excuse I’ve been seeing, yes Alastor may be capable of romantic and sexual attraction. But he is the embodiment of “doesn’t give a shit”, so I doubt he would. It’s not gonna stop people, though.

This is an uncomfortable topic since I’m not anywhere near aroace or on the lgbt spectrum. But it’s something I’ve been seeing a lot as I’m in the fandom and it’s something I’ve been meaning to put out there. So am I qualified? I think I am now that I’ve done my research. But whether you think so is entirely up to whoever gave enough of a crap to read this whole thing 😂 I might just post a shortened version of this afterwards.

That was all, I believe. I know the Hazbin fandom’s pretty toxic and always kinda has been (hehe wordplay) but I wanna throw in my penny.

@the-beard-of-edward-teach yo I threw in my penny 🏃‍♀️💨

[writtenjewels]

Maternity Ward part 4

Part One, Part Two, Part Three

Salim found his thoughts drifting to the Kolcheks. Specifically his new friend Jason. He liked being friendly with the couples he worked with, but this felt different somehow. He didn't think he ever connected with someone so quickly. It made him worry a little that he was toeing the line of professionalism. He certainly never spent so much time before thinking of jokes to tell other expectant fathers. But surely putting Jason at ease wasn't a bad thing, and truthfully, it'd been fun to exchange in teasing banter with the man.

The next time he entered the room, he found Penny in the middle of a contraction. Jason was coaching her through it, holding her hand and counting out her breaths for her. Salim watched without interruption, curious to see how Jason handled this. By now the panic stage had likely passed, but it was still impressive how Jason calmly but firmly talked Penny through it.

“You did great,” Jason told her when it was over. “You only said 'fuck' fifty times.”

“I'm savin' those for when I gotta start pushing,” Penny retorted with a laugh.

“Can't wait.”

“May I come in?” Salim asked. Penny looked up and Jason turned. Jason's face lit up in a smile, his eyes brightening. Salim smiled back before turning his attention on Penny. “Let me check on how you're doing.”

“Glad to see ya, Doc,” she smiled. “Jason and I have a bet goin' and we need a neutral party.”

“Oh?” Almost subconsciously, his eyes flicked over to Jason.

“We're bettin' what song's gonna play on the radio,” he explained. “I'm bettin' somethin' from the 80's on and Penny's got from the 50's to the 70's.”

“What if it's classical?” Salim asked teasingly.

“Then we tuned into the wrong fuckin' station.” Jason said it so matter-of-factly that Salim laughed. Jason smirked back at him and turned on the radio. Salim recognized the song after a few notes. “Hah.” Jason pumped a fist. “Fuckin' 1980's!”

“It's the 70's!” Penny argued. “Help me out here, Doc.” He felt both of them staring at him, waiting on a verdict.

“1979. Still technically the 70's. You were close.” He directed this to Jason. Instead of looking upset, Jason just gaped at him.

“How the fuck do you know that?”

“I like music.” Silence fell in the room with only the music to fill it. “I should get back to my rounds,” Salim announced. “I'll check on you later.”

“Hang on,” Penny protested. “Take Jason outta here so he can get me more snacks.” Jason shot her a look Salim didn't understand. With a grunt, Jason stepped out into the hall with Salim.

“You went through all those snacks already?” Salim asked him.

“She ate most of 'em.” The two started down the hall. “So,” Jason spoke up. “You like music?”

“Music kept me sane during medical school. I listened to it while I studied. I still listen to it whenever I need to relax, or feel energized, depending on the genre.”

“Me and Penn listened to a lot of music growin' up,” Jason remarked. “It's why I thought up the bet; thought it would help distract her.”

“It was a good idea.” Salim eyed him curiously. “You grew up together?”

Jason's lips quirked up in amusement. “Since the day I was born.”

Salim couldn't find the words. It was obvious now that he thought about it. The way they talked to each other, the similarities in the face and hair, why Jason always shied away whenever Salim examined Penny. Brother and sister. Salim felt like an idiot for not seeing it. They continued on to get snacks, his mind working through the information.

She's just his sister. The thought made him happy, but also strangely nervous.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Marina Dunbar and Edward Helmore at The Guardian:

A Manhattan jury has acquitted Daniel Penny in the subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely at the end of a weeks-long trial that sparked a fierce debate about whether the defendant was – as others put it – a “vigilante” or a “hero”.

Penny, a 26-year-old former Marine who is white, was charged in the death of Neely, a 30-year-old unhoused Black man, which occurred on a New York City subway train last year. Penny held Neely in a lethal chokehold. Penny was charged with second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide following Neely’s killing, which received widespread attention. Both charges carried the potential for prison time. On Friday, the jury in the case said it had been unable to reach a verdict on a charge of manslaughter after more than two days of deliberations. Judge Maxwell Wiley dismissed the charge and directed the panel to consider the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide. Penny was acquitted of the lesser charge after two hours of deliberations on Monday. In the courtroom, there was a burst of applause from Penny’s legal team, and the defendant was hustled out of the courtroom through a side door.

But Neely’s supporters audibly lamented the outcome, including some who were reported as visibly crying. Earlier Monday, Penny’s defense team said they were concerned about protests outside the lower Manhattan criminal court, claiming that jurors were able to hear chants of “subway strangler” and “murderer” as they deliberated. Wiley said there were protesters from both sides outside. Penny’s acquittal is a significant blow to the reputation of Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, who brought charges against him as protests over Neely’s killing mounted. Penny, 26, was accused of placing Neely, 30, in a chokehold as Neely acted erratically on an F train in SoHo on 1 May 2023.

[...] During the trial, jurors heard from more than 40 witnesses, including passengers who recounted that Neely had shouted he was “willing to die and go to jail” and “someone is going to die today” before Penny restrained him. Another woman on the subway train said she feared for her life after hearing Neely’s “satanic” rant. But no witness claimed that Neely physically touched or lunged at a specific person. The outcome of the trial is unlikely to resolve a debate in the city over safety in the subway and the fate of a troubled man who had clearly been let down by New York’s healthcare services.

What an egregious disgrace of a verdict this is. Daniel Penny gets let off for choking Jordan Neely to death.

[youryurigoddess]

Edinburgh epitaphs

I can see that the topic of the poems on the Archers mausoleum has resurfaced again in the meta parts of the Good Omens fandom, so I’ll add my slightly rusty (it’s really been over a year, gosh!) two pennies from Twitter to the other mausoleum clues.

The first thing you might notice about this construction is the Archers relief over the door — not a family name of the owners, but an obvious reference to the founding fathers of the legendary British filmmaking duo Powell and Pressburger. The other reliefs at the entrance to the mausoleum though? Their symmetry and content is also not accidental. Nothing in Good Omens is.

Taking into consideration the classical left-right positioning of our (married/divorced/ineffable) couple, one of the poems seems very much intended for Aziraphale and one for Crowley to read and ponder in a (plus minus) 200-years-long perspective. Facing the entrance in their typical configuration, Crowley would stand closer to the left poem and Aziraphale the right one.

On Aziraphale’s side there’s an excerpt from Walter Scott's poem “Love” which covers what we already know (and want him to understand asap) at this point: the answer to every question and the highest authority — surpassing even the saints, angels, and heaven in general — is love.

The same sentiment is mirrored by the moral of A Matter of Life and Death (1946), “Nothing is stronger than the Law in the universe, but on Earth nothing is stronger than Love”, the most openly referenced Archers’ work within the Good Omens context ever since S1. It’s almost no wonder that this short poem is quoted even on the script level:

The Judge: “Members of the jury, as Sir Walter Scott is always saying... ‘In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and saints above; For Love is heaven, and heaven is Love.’ Will you please consider your verdict.” (A Matter of Life and Death, 1946)

Walter Scott’s poem on the back of Michael Powell’s (1905-1990, “Film Director and Optimist”) gravestone.

Obviously, at this point no one reading this will be surprised to learn that the second relief — the one on Crowley’s side — is a copy of Pressburger’s gravestone poem, Rudyard Kipling's “If—”.

Three lines of Rudyard Kipling’s poem on the gravestone of Emeric Pressburger (“Novelist, Screenwriter, Born Miskolc, Hungary, 1902-1988. Requiescat in pace”).

In Crowley’s context, especially in S2, the full poem could allude to his power of imagination, but also patience and hope in a most vulnerable moment… as a means to achieving maturity? Or rather… humanity?

Was this intended to be a commentary on the upcoming confrontation, or maybe a solution to their individual crises and plot points from the next season? I can’t wait to read your opinions on the matter!

By the way, have you noticed the mausoleum pillars being the same as the bookshop ones? It seems to be another deliberate choice, hinting at the function of the bookshop as Aziraphale’s personal moral compass — what happened in the Archers’ mausoleum similarly helped him find his way, as the title of the episode suggests: he knows where he’s going. Like the English heroine of the Archers’ movie under the same title, he learns on his journey to Scotland that he doesn’t want the things that he thought he wanted, and distances himself from Heaven and its policy to be even closer to Crowley and Their Side.

[anexperimentallife]

I've had to spend over $700.00 on disability aids over the past several months. And this is with me trying to hold off until the need is undeniable and/or Zoey verbally kicks me in the butt to get me to do it, because I'm always like, "But that's money that could go to paying off debt, or that could be saved up for surgeries!"

Also I just limped to the end of the balcony without my crutches to take pictures of the fog, and had to lean heavily on @thesurestthing to get back inside. Now I'm laying in bed with a giant ice pack on my hip.

I have a hip brace coming in, and a referral to a rheumatologist, but I already know the verdict. This hip simply needs replaced. But it's going to be a while before we can afford that. Might end up using a wheelchair before then.

But hey, Penny/Zoey is taking wonderful care of me, and Baby El is doing her best. (But @geniussheepworld has ABANDONED us! Just kidding--she's visiting her family for a few days.)

Also, check out this fog as compared to our normal view! Yes, these are both taken from about the same place:

And here's what we see right outside our front door: