To me, this attitude is the opposite side of the same coin as my teachers in parochial school back in the day condemning books, movies, and music they considered too sexual. The horseshoe theory in action!

On r/skeptic, a lot of skeptics consider him more of a reflexive contrarian than an actual skeptic, citing his disbelief in climate change long after the evidence was in.

If someone is selfish enough to put their interests over those of the entire community, they do not deserve sympathy. It is not a matter of simply disagreeing with me. You are deliberately misinterpreting what I'm saying because it makes it easier for you to argue against me.

If they promote candidates who I feel will harm our community and our country, you're damned right they lose my sympathy. Faulkner has gone beyond trying to keep Abu Jamal in prison to actively promoting candidates who favor policies that benefit the rich at the expense of the poor, destroy the environment, and interfere with women's rights, all of which I would consider more important than someone who died over forty years ago.

My comment wasn't about her going to court. It was about her becoming a mouthpiece for Republican politicians. And let's be real: if her husband hadn't been a cop, Jamal, rightly or wrongly, would likely have gotten out a decade or two ago.

Frankly, I've lost sympathy for the widow since she's started exploiting her husband's death to promote the Republican Party. Mumia is guilty as sin, but that doesn't make using her husband's death for political points excusable. More to the point, as a Senator, Fetterman would have no power over the Abu-Jamal case one way or the other.