Patton Oswalt
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They're not contributing anything, so I'll take something.
So the fact that she was able to do something to put the focus on the people that are trying to bring justice to the powerless, or the voiceless, in this case the dead, or the people that survived,
or, you know, survive to testify and and still put themselves at risk with these because a lot of these if you really look at the Ted Bundy case, like the way that he was treated, like, oh, my God, it's so tragic, this bright young guy with a
Could have been a lawyer.
He was a fucking idiot.
He flunked out of every, but he's a good looking white guy.
And everyone's like, oh my God, we got, you know.
And when the judge sentenced him, he's like, I feel terrible.
Like, you know, you just took a wrong path, buddy, but I would have loved to have had you in my court.
Like, can you imagine being one of the survivors going, what the fuck is going on here?
This guy is getting all the...
You know, and his final statement was like, this is like a Greek tragedy, you know, like the wrong guy.
You're like, what fucking world are we living in?
I mean, one of the reasons I think we love mysteries is because at least the ones who have a solution and we can see, oh, there was a form of justice was served here because right now in our world, very blatantly and very in our face and very flagrantly, justice is not being served and evil, opportunistic,
just weak villains are being rewarded day after day after day.
And no one seems to be willing to do anything about it.
So yes, I'll take a fictional world where yes, even though evil's done, evil gets punished.
People need that.
I mean, I had a lot of help from other people that had gone through this, you know, the grief group that I went to, and they just said, this is going to sound really weird, but
Right now, all you feel is despair, and that's all you feel like you can feel.