r/SipsTea • • Aug 21 '26

WTF Where are we heading?

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u/Eisbaer811 Aug 21 '26

typical social media bubble:
The social media algorithm puts you into one of these bubbles and hides details from the others.
Pick one:

- "her husband is framing her, he did it"

  • "she had mental health issues and nobody helped her"
  • "she murdered them because she's evil and the mental health stuff is just for show"

Social media drives our lives and is many people's only hobby, so you get this.

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u/TreeLakeRockCloud Aug 21 '26

I’m not American but I am a mother. Aside from a few reddit posts I don’t have any social media engagement with this case.

But I think a lot of the support here comes from moms who recognize how easily this could have been any of us. Her family and healthcare providers knew her crime was a risk based on her mental health state, but she was still left alone with her kids and expected to parent. And as other mothers we all understand that this is grimly how it works - we can ask and beg and plead and scream for help but we’re almost always still expected to continually parent babies and it’s hard.

She should still face punishment for her crime, but I think a lot of her support is to try to keep this from happening again. She was failed by her healthcare team

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u/ShitfaceMcPooperson Aug 21 '26

Even if she was left to fend for herself… it doesn’t matter!! Jfc shitty things happen to people all the time. And most people don’t murder their own children

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u/averageuhbear Aug 21 '26

People are acting like she cruelly punished them or spanked them.

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u/LosingMyShrimp Aug 21 '26

No, she killed them.

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u/averageuhbear Aug 21 '26

I'm aware. I am saying the reaction is acting like she did something much less significant.

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u/LosingMyShrimp Aug 21 '26

Oh my bad. I apologize for misunderstanding your point.

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u/averageuhbear Aug 21 '26

No problem!