Defendants unmasked in court face cost of damage for allegedly felling famous 150-year-old tree (apnews.com)

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Imagine being an adult and thinking this is an acceptable thing to do. Why are there so many shitheads in the world?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Covid didn't do enough

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

So we still don’t know what the motive was?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Nope, as far as I'm aware a motive hasn't been made public. But I'm willing to chalk it up to some people just being miserable jerks.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

chock it up

Chalk it up?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Miserable jerks are definitely way more common than they should be but cutting a tree is a lot of work. It’s hard to believe they didn’t have some kind of motive beyond just stirring up shit. Maybe we’ll find out during or after the trial.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

They haven't admitted to doing it. One plead not guilty, the other entered no plea. I doubt there will ever be a good reason given, I struggle to even imagine any justification. Sometimes humanity really acts like a virus that earth needs to get rid of 🤷‍♂️

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Someone just ran over a fully grown tree on my street corner and I'm pissed

[+] [email protected] -19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Edit: Oh shit! SORRY! I looked at the little picture on my phone and truly didn’t see the balaclavas until I just opened the article up on a large PC screen now!

I’ll leave up my mistake (below) as a testament to my poor eyesight.

TBH I never expected the perps to be black. It will quite interesting to unpack their motives and put it into some historical perspective regarding purposeful, inadvertent or ignorant destruction by European colonial invaders in, uh… everywhere else in the world.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

TBH I never expected the perps to be black. It will quite interesting to unpack their motives and put it into some historical perspective regarding purposeful, inadvertent or ignorant destruction by European colonial invaders in, uh… everywhere else in the world.

Wanna know how I know you only glanced at the picture?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My little phone didn’t have the pixels to show the picture properly.

I’ve owned up to my mistake above.

And yes now that I look closer I can see their hands. Oops.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Good on you for owning the mistake. I will say that even if they were black the premise of your original argument provides no justification for what was done.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

And you shall know me by the trail of monuments to my own incompetence that I leave in my wake…

Now as to my ‘argument’; it wasn’t a justification, it was more a point of relativism and curiosity.

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