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[–] 159 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Clockboy was the biggest crock of shit.

The kids dad put the thing together and prompted the kid to get in trouble with it for lawsuit bait and to boost his political career.

It wasn't even impressive he literally just took the guts out of a RadioShack digital clock and taped it inside a pencil box.

It was 100% low effort bait, it was literally a timer sticking out of a briefcase shaped pencil box that's obviously supposed to look like a bomb.

He didn't even get in trouble for having it, he got in trouble for repeatedly pulling it out to disrupt class.

The family got a ton of free shit then a year later tried to sue the city for 15 million and some conservative talk show hosts, all dismissed.

They then accepted a scholarship to a school in Qatar and moved there in 2015.

This is such a good example of the dumbass culture war shit that drove people to trump.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago

    I've been saying this since day one! It always seemed like a huge scam to me. Just trying to bait racial tension for personal gain. And yeah, it was just a normal digital clock that got taken out of the shell. The news was saying he made it himself, but it was obviously a mass-produced item.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Do you have any documentation for this?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    I had direct connections to this incident (friend worked at the school), and this is pretty much exactly what happened. The only reason it was an issue in the first place were the zero tolerance policies in place that required action to be taken. Whether the family did it on purpose, no one really knew, but everyone involved certainly was thinking it.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    lmao totally the ‘culture war’ and not decades of racism

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Decades of racism drove people to trump? I don't think so

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Oh yes... when racist pieces of shit noticed it was OK to air their BS and wear it proudly after Republicans send the message that this is OK now... they feed off each other

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    How is that different from Republicans at literally any other point post 1960?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Dude, the difference is the scale... back then they could hint at it, if they overdid it, that was a career ending mistake

    Now all safeties are off... they literally compete to see who says they worst racist shit

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    "Dude, the difference is the scale... back then they could hint at it, if they overdid it, that was a career ending mistake"

    That's really more like a 15 year window because I remember the 90's and early 00's and by today's standards, people were racist as shit and it was considered acceptable.

    Literally watch any comedy from that time and you'll quickly learn how different the discourse was.

    In the past 5 or so years it's swung back super hard, I'll give you that, but PC culture as you're describing it had barely started in the 90's and really only got off the ground in a way you would recognize in the mid-late 00's.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    That’s really more like a 15 year window because I remember the 90’s and early 00’s and by today’s standards, people were racist as shit and it was considered acceptable.

    Well, the Mango Mussolini nightmare started 10 years ago or so... so not too far off

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