Eh, I just like chuckling at the insanity of the story given even the most tangential of opportunities.

I don’t get why anyone involved in an actively planned murder ever needs to be allowed to walk free again.

You kidding?

Whether a woman knows she’s being recorded is not the issue. Whether she consented to posting is

Yes, they are. For starters, many addicts in the favelas do spend what little money they have or obtain on drugs, but also, to the extent they’re exchanging labor for drugs, they’re just cutting out the middle man “cash” in what is otherwise the same relationship.

And yet here we are in a situation where people are drawing comparisons to him anyways.

Well, for starters, I tend to laugh at any usage of “#team[whatever]” that is serious, considering the origin of the tag.

Dude’s got his lies, his damn lies and his statistics.

Dominic West was great and I wouldn’t trade his run as Jimmy McNulty for anything, but if I had to put money on who the average metropolitan mid-grade detective looked more like ... It’d probably be the guy who was overweight, middle-aged and Irish/Scottish-American.

Or this guy.

And to the extent you don’t want to lionize him for doing this, that’s fair.

This is, sadly, a deeply incorrect statement. Plenty of poor people in the favelas are users and addicts.

This whole “expose” is classic “Limit 10 per customer” sort of marketing on their part.

I’ve also wondered, in cases where kids are deeply unbalanced for other reasons, if violent video games (or really, violent media in general) don’t serve so much as an outlet as they do a fertilizer for the imagination going to dark places.

If they didn’t arrest him?

Naw. Propaganda is bad for a lot of reasons beyond just the fact that it’s lying.

Gotta choose man. It’s either bad enough that you should burn it down or salvageable.

Not so many reasons that you should drum up laughably incorrect logic to support new ones though.

It’s a bit more cynical than all that.

Maybe his motives are great, but isn’t it really simpler to think that this is really: