Dude has like 45k subs on YouTube. Fucking weird.

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    13 days ago

    John did his time and just wants to make art and music. He lives close by to me and keeps getting booked and then cancelled at local venues. It’s lame.

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      12 days ago

      Are we gonna gloss over the fact that he blamed Cancel Culture.

      I don’t think this guy knows what Cancel Culture is.

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      12 days ago

      Yeah if think about it he almost saved America, but like another person who I won’t name the fucker Regan lived. Wonder what world be like if he had been successful?

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        he almost saved America

        It would have been entirely accidentally, though.

        He didn’t shoot Reagan for being Reagan, he shot him because he wanted to impress Jodie Foster after developing an obsession with her (who’d been twelve when filming and was eighteen at the time of the attempt on Reagan’s life) after watching Taxi Driver about fifteen times.

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    I’ve been following him on Twitter for awhile.

    He sells bad paintings of orange cats that I desperately want to buy.

    He keeps booking musical shows and then having to cancel them once the venue discovers who he is.

    After Trump was shot at he made a statement condemning political violence

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      13 days ago

      His charges were reduced because his lawyers were able to make the case that he was schizophrenic.

      Pleading insanity became much harder in the US after that Hinckley’s case. The ruling was hotly debated.

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        He tried to kill the active President, not for political reasons, but to impress an actress who didn’t know he existed.

        Mans bat shit. Why on earth would the diagnosis of crazy be challenged?

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      13 days ago

      It’s technically possible to do that after committing any crime, but under super specific circumstances and it’s a far cry from a “get out of jail free” card.

      If you’re legitimately, actually insane when you commit a crime you’ll get sent to a mental hospital instead of prison. The catch is that the hospital will only release you if you’re mentally healthy. That can mean that a person who uses the insanity plea may spend more time in the hospital than they would have in prison.

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      Good. We imagine how our society would have less issues if we focused more on real rehabilitation and reintegration, and less on retribution and *heaping on more trauma.

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        For most crimes I agree.

        For murderers, pedophiles, rapists, drunk drivers, snd repeat assaulters I think it should be more about “we’re not reintegrating you back into society…at all. We’re just going to put you into a room and make it so you’re not a threat to society anymore”

        And considering his was against the president, I’m surprised secret service didn’t shoot him dead on the spot.

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    12 days ago

    “You rape one child and you get booed at the olympics!”
    – some hypothetical case, hopefully /s