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I feel like I constantly give people the wrong impression about my behavior. I do find it to be an important thing to try and correct misinformation because of how easily that spread, but I don't just go around correcting things and being an asshole about it. I do try to get the right info into everyone's hands, but will only treat people like assholes when they use misinformation to be assholes
Like, @FreedomCricket said it was 4am, so why not just wait longer, and my response was just correcting that was an error in the article and where the 4pm was noted in the report on video evidence, and not jumping down his throat. But earlier when @TrueBias incorrectly said it was 4am (before that article with the misinformation came out) and used that to further call the testers assholes and excusing the behavior, I corrected it and called him a big dumb bitch. Now, I didn't think truebias was being particularly egregious or anything, so I threw a little wink emoji at him too so he could get the feeling I'm not actually pissed and that I'm just trying to get him to realize the error, and there's no hard feelings.
But the problem is, because this forum is filled with people who can't be bothered to read and spout wrong info AND are assholes about it, I take that as full invitation to go shitting on heads. And the fact I do that so rampantly is gonna make me look emotionally biased on this topic because I'm mostly shitting on the heads of people defending Jon. That's not because of bias, it's just because that side is, ironically, the ones that usually can't be bothered to read and spout off wrong info AND are assholes about it.
I don't pretend to know what happened, and I don't even pretend to think he did something incredibly criminal here (except maybe the temporary theft of her phone, but that's hardly even petty misdemeanor). I do know that Jon is a proven asshole regardless of this situation being true or not, but his guilt here is still well up in the air for me. I even stated at one point:
Basically I'm saying that even being arrested (or in this case, getting a summons, which is a charge but not necessarily an arrest) doesn't particularly strongly imply guilt in a case like this either. But the problem is, it certainly implies it more than Jon's video implies his innocence, and yet people act like that's the smoking gun to prove he's safe. And the absolute morons who think that aren't going to read my post above giving a balanced view on the establishment of guilt during an investigation, they're just gonna see my reply telling them they're fucking dumb for thinking a high five is gonna get a case thrown out.
It's like when the political sphere keeps shifting so that a moderate view ends up looking biased, cuz there's too many extremists around. Just in this case, it's the extremely stupid.
