Joe Ceballos — a longtime Republican and the mayor of the small Kansas town of Clearwater — is now confronting felony voter fraud charges and the possibility of being deported by the very presidential administration he supported. Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach (R) announced the charges just one day after Ceballos won reelection in Clearwater, a community of 2,653 residents…
Look, I get it, I really do. It is nice to vent and see leopards eat the faces.
“Ignorance is no longer an acceptable excuse.”
I agree. But for me, that perspective only applies when I’m talking to someone directly either in person or online. But I also don’t get schadenfreude when it is pretty clear a total stranger in an article had no idea what was going on, and is trapped by a system that failed them decades ago.
People who licked store shelves in April 2020 to “own the libs” now that is schadenfreude.
My original post wasn’t to excuse his ignorance either. I wanted to raise awareness of the nuance of the guy’s situation. Several comments at the time clearly showed that it wasn’t read. We have a real problem with people commenting on headlines and not taking the time to read.
Lastly, in my opinion, this is pretty shitty leopardsatemyface content. If I went to another country and broke a law out of ignorance, it is one thing to be punished for it, it is another thing to be mocked.
No. Ignorance is no longer an acceptable excuse. Just because ypu dont care about politics doesnt mean politics doesnt care about you.
Look, I get it, I really do. It is nice to vent and see leopards eat the faces. “Ignorance is no longer an acceptable excuse.” I agree. But for me, that perspective only applies when I’m talking to someone directly either in person or online. But I also don’t get schadenfreude when it is pretty clear a total stranger in an article had no idea what was going on, and is trapped by a system that failed them decades ago.
People who licked store shelves in April 2020 to “own the libs” now that is schadenfreude.
My original post wasn’t to excuse his ignorance either. I wanted to raise awareness of the nuance of the guy’s situation. Several comments at the time clearly showed that it wasn’t read. We have a real problem with people commenting on headlines and not taking the time to read.
Lastly, in my opinion, this is pretty shitty leopardsatemyface content. If I went to another country and broke a law out of ignorance, it is one thing to be punished for it, it is another thing to be mocked.