U.S. Politics

[Miamipuck]

Clock/Watch building can be a pretty lucrative career.

[Tommy]

BTW it's funny how they thought an actual terrorist would build a clock bomb like you'd see in corny action flicks.

[Ignatius J Reilly]

The school is perfectly in its right to overreact and freak out about a potential safety issue.  It's kind of the job of the police to ground things again.  Aside from the suspension, it's hard to criticize the school's initial reaction TOO much.  It's likely true that more leeway would have been given to a white kid, but I have no idea how that discussion went.

[Tommy]

The school is perfectly in its right to overreact and freak out about a potential safety issue.  It's kind of the job of the police to ground things again.  Aside from the suspension, it's hard to criticize the school's initial reaction TOO much.  It's likely true that more leeway would have been given to a white kid, but I have no idea how that discussion went.

Impossible to say, but you know the "racist America is at it again" crowd will light excrement up again. Only saving grace is that the cops here were black, and black cops can't be racist, so...

[Badger]

Hahaha.  It's Texas.  Nothing will be done.

I mean vigilante shaming, like the lion hunting dentist got.

[Johnny English]

He has already received invitations to visit the White House:



and Facebook:

Mark Zuckerberg
30 mins · Palo Alto, CA, United States ·
 
You’ve probably seen the story about Ahmed, the 14 year old student in Texas who built a clock and was arrested when he took it to school.
Having the skill and ambition to build something cool should lead to applause, not arrest. The future belongs to people like Ahmed.
Ahmed, if you ever want to come by Facebook, I'd love to meet you. Keep building.

[Ignatius J Reilly]

^Ok, I'm done feeling sorry for him.  On to the next outrage.

[NDMick]

Time to make some clocks to meet Leaders of the World and billionaires, then walk into a school.

Be right back.

[NDMick]

That was quick! I'm gonna meet Obama and Elon Musk next Monday!

Hope my black eye disappears before then.

[Badger]

^Ok, I'm done feeling sorry for him.  On to the next outrage.

This isn't about making him feel better, I want to see the people who fucked up feel bad.

[Derek Smalls]

Does the Republican debate belong in this thread or in a thread about Comedy Central.

[Tommy]

TIL that debate viewing parties actually Fuckn exist. How sad.

[Badger]

Does the Republican debate belong in this thread or in a thread about Comedy Central.

Neither.

[dcm1602]

He has already received invitations to visit the White House:



and Facebook:

Because the secret services is going to be cool with someone named Ahmed Mohamed bringing this into the White House  to show the gosh darned president



Is it messed up? A little. Is racial profiling involved ? Almost certainly (to an extent)

But what do you think would've happened if he tried getting on a freaking airplane with something like that ?  Hed be in freaking Guantanamo or some excrement

Cant blame the school for doing what they did.

Nobody knows what a bomb looks like in real life. But thats exactly what a bomb looks like in the movies. And everybody knows what a clock looks like, and that looks absolutely nothing like one

[Badger]

The teacher overreacted like a dickhead but TSA would have been ten times worse.