Post hoc ergo propter hoc
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Yep. The Texas Statute is a Logical Fallacy
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He was sentenced to ten years probation and was supposed to check in monthly with his probation officer. A video surfaced on YouTube showing him drinking (a probation violation) and so he disappeared with his mother.
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Then heās an asshole.
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Nor would they give a shit that this distinction shouldnāt be relevant.
Hey, donāt endanger Texas Truck Nutz.
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We should get @OtherMichael to create a bot to write these sorts of stories, and then we can all weigh in on which are going to happen next. It doesnāt seem like there are too many variables. Insert minority, gross overreach by authority figure, statistical weight for geographic region, etc.
It would probably be too easy. These situations are starting to sound like fear of āthe otherā mad-libs.
Honestly, Iām damn tired of hearing about crap like this.
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Waitā¦arenāt YOU in Texas?
Yeah, there is more than enough Bubba Dumbass driving loud mufflerless white trucks around here!
(gif of a high-five)
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Not really. This is the affluenza kid. He was too affluent to be responsible for his actions.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/18/460120603/manhunt-underway-for-affluenza-teen
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Does anyone else get the feeling that Texas and Florida get together late at night, get really drunk together, and try to figure out ways to bring down the general social awareness level of the US as a whole?
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Shared anatomy?
Well, if Florida is the flaccid penis of America, then perhaps Texas can be the sagging ballsack.
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would the story be any less offesnsive if the kid were muslim rather than Sikh?
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Itās kind of the perfect storm - bullying, corruption, bigotry, and the idiocy of āzero toleranceā (and other senselessly rigid) school policies.
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Iāve so far avoided commenting on this. Racist crazy is far from confined to the United States. But to me what this is actually exposing is a terrible level of technical knowledge among educators and police. Itās actually an indictment of the US educational system. I donāt just mean recognising a solar charger, I mean sleeping through classes on civics (but then Trump presumably went to very expensive schools that failed to teach him the basics of the Constitution) and, apparently, the understanding of English.
Scott Adams (who has been coming in for a lack of flak recently) had a riff about all the intelligent people going to live in Switzerland away from the idiots. The problem with this is that in places like SF you are getting just such an IQ aristocracy but they still manage to be sexist and sociopathic.
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You may call it a āpotato gunā, I prefer to think of them as ādead rat launchersā.
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Thank you for coming here and sharing this great wisdom. How long shall we enjoy your presence?
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When the clock kid decided to sue the state my thoughts were " this is a bit over the top".
But after reading this guys case, I think they should sue the fuckers doublebigtime - is that newspeak enough for yer?
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Itās possible your arse is on fire. What are you gonna do if no-one tells you?
