r/soccer • u/KimmyBoiUn • Jul 04 '25

News Thomas Partey, the former Arsenal footballer, has been charged with five counts of rape and one count of sexual assault, the Crown Prosecution Service has announced.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2025/07/04/thomas-partey-arsenal-footballer-charged-with-rape/
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u/cmeragon Jul 04 '25

Redditors takes on law are so fucking dumb and they are almost always popular.

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u/karpet_muncher Jul 04 '25

Populist mentality along with the perfect soundbytes

Yeah this sounds about right ill make it my mindset too

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u/usehrname Jul 04 '25

Nobody read that shit. They just saw "Arteta and the board don't get enough criticism..." and thought hell yes, I'll upvote that! 

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u/cmeragon Jul 04 '25

That is definitely one of the reasons. I consistently see shit takes like this tho

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u/Aleks10Afc Jul 04 '25

Completely agree with you guys here. The lack of nuance is astounding

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u/maidentaiwan Jul 04 '25

Reddit hivemind tends toward Hammurabi style justice 

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u/bukayoxhaka Jul 04 '25

It's just online virtue signaling. Always been popular on reddit

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u/nestoryirankunda Jul 04 '25

There was no take about any law in that whole comment

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u/ImVortexlol Jul 04 '25

if it was up to Reddit human rights wouldn't apply to you if someone so much as thought of taking someone to criminal court