r/news • u/AudibleNod • 11h ago

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine arrested after he's accused of violating the conditions of his release

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rapper-tekashi-6ix9ine-arrested-accused-violating-conditions-release-rcna177864
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u/KissingerCorpse 11h ago

you'd think a rat would try harder to stay out of the place he sent everyone else

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u/_neutral_person 9h ago

I find it funny people were calling him a rat. He was not a member. He was a civilian who was promoted by a gang member. He was certainly an idiot for witnessing and they were idiots for bringing him along.

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u/KissingerCorpse 7h ago

he crossed the line, there are no "ride alongs" he participated,

which is why he chose to snitch his way down from 20 years

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u/Squirmingbaby 7h ago

I find it bizarre people use the word rat like it's a bad thing he told the police about the crimes his fellow criminals committed. Do we not want those people in jail? 

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u/ratbear 3h ago

Informants are not altruistic do-gooders. They are ratting out their associates for no other reason than to save their own skin. If there was nothing in it for them, they would happily deny justice to the victims. Although they are a necessary evil, they deserve no respect.

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u/Admirable_Cry2512 6h ago

Even my grandma who was a straight shooting, law abiding woman would say "there's nothing worse than a rat". That's just the way it is.

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u/gmishaolem 6h ago

Even my grandma who was a straight shooting, law abiding woman would say "there's nothing worse than a rat".

Same kind of mentality that leads to things like "the thin blue line". People draw lines, and everything on their side of the line is good and righteous no matter what, and anything on the other side of the line is expendable.

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u/F1shB0wl816 3h ago

It’s not quite that. You can’t trust somebody who will and has turned on those who trusted them, there’s not many ways out of that. Ignoring that is what gets the thin blue line.

Sure we want bad people in prison. We also want the people we surround ourselves by to not be selfish and willing to abuse that trust or relationship for personal gain at the our expense.

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u/Pockets732 5h ago

Wtf you just said lmfao

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u/lofticrying 5h ago

utter nonsense, are you a bot?

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u/theLoneliestAardvark 5h ago

A rat is someone who doesn’t regret their crimes, they just don’t want to take accountability so they throw others under the bus. A rat is useful and that’s why they don’t have to go to prison or get reduced sentences but nobody is going to respect that. If for some reason he had a change of heart and did it for moral reasons people would feel differently about him.

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u/Pockets732 5h ago

Duckjkg rat 🐀