• Scrubbles ( scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ) 
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    3 years ago

    There’s a weird right-wing push to punish Baldwin and I honestly don’t know why. I know this because my dad is full MAGA nut and in between ramblings about Michelle Obama being a man and Jesus having returned already he talks about how Baldwin should go to jail.

    From what I’ve read, it sounds like it was an accident. There was a settlement, apologies were made, and safety standards are being bolstered. Unless the “new evidence” is “Baldwin knew it was loaded” and there’s rock solid proof, I don’t know what is expected here.

    • Him being a producer on the film does give him a bit more responsibility towards the process and protocols on set that led to such an incident, but I still don’t think they have enough to convict here.

        • synae[he/him] ( synae@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
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          3 years ago

          IIRC the armorer responsible for the weapons management was extremely negligent (facing charges of her own), and that is part of what the other crew raised issues with re:safety.

          IMO if the producer (Baldwin) ignored those specific warnings, he should be held partly responsible. This gets confounded further since he also fired the gun.

    • You know, I don’t believe anyone is too far gone. With very few exceptions. I was pretty right-wing at some time in my life and I came back from it, so I do believe in redemption. I do believe that we get to come back from this. But if you end up to a point where you will go on tirade about how Michelle Obama is actually a fucking man… you’re too far gone, you’re one of those exception.

      • I cut my dad off years ago because of what he thinks.

        I asked around a while ago about the Michelle Obama thing. It turns out it’s pretty common in extreme right groups that they think this. The underlying issue is that they can’t believe a woman, especially a black woman, can handle herself with such grace. So they just assign that she must be a man. Not consciously of course. They are just so fragile that it’s all they can do.

    • From what I’ve read, it didn’t sound completely like an accident to me. Working conditions were apparently so bad that the camera crew had walked off the set earlier that day. Non-union replacements were brought in, which is why safety standards were low and the set was chaotic.

      This was a labor dispute, and Baldwin was careless with safety in order to avoid the costs of providing decent working conditions and pay.