Shooting at Las Vegas casino

Well, according to Rexxon Tillotson, some people are fucking morons.

 

We have reached the point where there is literally no reporting error that YF could point out that many of you wouldn't push back against.

"Dewey did defeat Truman, from a certain point of view."

 

Go watch that video and come back and tell me about the not automatic fire, Dick.

He's been right before. He's caught me being inaccurate and I've admitted it. Put the number of times that he's been right against the number of times that he's dug in and argued completely ass backward and untenably wrong positions interminably and get back to us with the ratio, huh?

Stopped clock, twice a day, yes?

 

OOP <> "many of you"

btw, the error checkers can go to the NY Times article on this guy's gambling. It stated that royal flushes pay off at 400-1. They pay off at much higher when you bet the maximum amount. And heavy gamblers always bet the maximum amount.

 

It's automatic fire. He said it wasn't an automatic weapon, i.e. manufactured that way. He was right. I don't care about anything in the rest of your post and I don't know why any of you guys do.

 

I think it comes from the nature of the crimes.
With serial killers, there is typically an escalation and a twisted logic to the crimes of serial killers. Once they're discovered and investigated, you find out about the drifter they killed when they were 20, the victims usually fall into a certain pattern, there's a rhythm to the crimes that's habitual. We might not comprehend how someone could do it, but we can wrap our heads around the mechanics of it. Many serial killers are also captured red-handed and alive and are able to explain or provide details of their actions.
Mass shootings come out of the blue and, as this case shows, don't always make sense. We can't comprehend how someone could do it and can't wrap our heads around the mechanics of it. The perpetrators usually kill themselves or are killed by police instead of arrested and aren't around to give details or explain why, so the conspiracy theories rush in to fill the void. If you notice, we don't usually get conspiracy theories surrounding workplace mass shootings where there's an obvious logic to the motive. In cases like Newtown or Las Vegas, where there's no obvious motive, we as a society need a reason to explain the unexplainable, and the explanation can't be as simple as "lone nut job snaps and murders people" even if that's precisely what happened. That's when the Alex Joneses of the world step in.

 

Can't speak for everybody, but what a lot of us try to do is explain to him the real reasons behind mistakes. In your example, we'd explain that was caused by the deadline imposed by printing an early edition and that later editions of the same paper fixed the error.

 

“All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”

 

Hillary won more votes!

 

Yikes.

 

That's different than people who argue that the mistake isn't material. Or just launch an ad hominem salvo against YF and his motive, as if that dispenses with his point.