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    SyscrushGlenn Greenwald, co-founder of The Intercept
    9/16/15 12:57pm

    It’s also the end result of hiring teachers and cops who are dumb as shit.

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      OhioGrownSyscrush
      9/16/15 1:00pm

      Well..the ones dumb enough to go into professions that are under constant attack, not via bombs, but paycuts, pension theft, cutbacks, and deemed lazy moochers.

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      RustyS05OhioGrown
      9/16/15 1:02pm

      In what world are police under constant attack? To imply they’re not given whatever they want financially is absurd. Very few professions allow one to make 100K after a few years service and zero college degree.

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    mtdriftGlenn Greenwald, co-founder of The Intercept
    9/16/15 1:24pm

    Obama on it:

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      BurnedAtTheSteakmtdrift
      9/16/15 1:34pm

      I cannot WAIT for the ensuing shitfit from the right.

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      InterplanetaryBurnedAtTheSteak
      9/16/15 1:42pm

      Oh it’s happening right now and it’s quite amusing!

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    DoctorNineGlenn Greenwald, co-founder of The Intercept
    9/16/15 1:09pm

    I don’t know what’s worse. That these ‘teachers’ are so stupid, that they can’t tell the difference between a clock and a bomb. Or that these poor kids have to endure the torture of ‘instruction’ by such mentally challenged ‘teachers’. Jeebus.

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      mazzieDDoctorNine
      9/16/15 1:14pm

      Look at the bright side though, being led out in handcuffs is going to earn this kid levels of cool and badassery that a kid who designs clocks in his free time could have never achieved otherwise.

      That’s about the only bright side.

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      TheCarsonUltimatumDoctorNine
      9/16/15 1:26pm

      You know what is ridiculous: Most likely this kid has to walk into class next week with the same teachers. That sucks.

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    CatdogWhispererGlenn Greenwald, co-founder of The Intercept
    9/16/15 1:06pm

    “police say they may yet charge him with making a hoax bomb — though they acknowledge he told everyone who would listen that it’s a clock.”

    On a related note, I had a sandwich for lunch. It was sliced bread, so my co-worker thought I had a knife and phoned the police. Upon realizing that I only had a pre-sliced sandwich, and that there was, in fact, no knife to speak of, they graciously only charged me with attempted murder.

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      Deeply Moral NihilistCatdogWhisperer
      9/16/15 1:22pm

      Admitting to a mistake emboldens our enemies.

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      Bronze Sebs FeverCatdogWhisperer
      9/16/15 1:58pm

      Well, if you couldn’t give a “‘broader explanation’ as to what a sandwich, or a clock for that matter, would be used for, I don’t know what else you could expect. These things require explanations!

      In Texas, apparently.

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    RobNYCGlenn Greenwald, co-founder of The Intercept
    9/16/15 1:09pm

    I guess every person who had this as a kid would have been arrested for bomb hoaxes.

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      Emerald D.V.RobNYC
      9/16/15 1:29pm

      First they came for chemistry sets...

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      Mercury: The Sweetest Of The Transition MetalsRobNYC
      9/16/15 1:42pm

      I loved that thing!

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    gramercypoliceGlenn Greenwald, co-founder of The Intercept
    9/16/15 1:29pm

    I wonder, didn’t anyone at the school talk to the Engineering teacher? Didn’t he vouch for the fact that it was just a clock? I mean, the Engineering teacher did tell Mohammed not to show the clock to any other teachers (imagine what the everyday atmosphere must be like in that workplace!). So, it seems likely that the student would say, ‘No, go ask Mr. Peabody! He already checked it out! It’s just a clock — he’ll tell you.’ And then, they go ask Mr. Peabody and he says it’s cool, and they drop the whole thing.

    So, did they not ask the Engineering teacher? Did they not care when he said it was just a clock? Or did he not defend the student?

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      BurnedAtTheSteakgramercypolice
      9/16/15 1:38pm

      My impression was that he did not defend the student, because the first story I read on it said that the police report listed three teachers as complainants.

      But that might be unfair. It doesn’t give names or say which classes those teachers were from. So I don’t know.

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      gramercypoliceBurnedAtTheSteak
      9/16/15 1:40pm

      Yeah, it'll be interesting to watch this play out in that point. Imagine if it was you and you didn't speak up. Not sure how somebody could live with that.

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    filmgirlGlenn Greenwald, co-founder of The Intercept
    9/16/15 1:10pm

    Ahmed had maintained that he built only a clock, but said the boy was unable to give a ‘broader explanation’ as to what it would be used for.”

    Oh I don’t know a CLOCK. wtf is wrong with Texas.

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      mazzieDfilmgirl
      9/16/15 1:15pm

      The only correct answer to an adult asking what a clock is used for is “I’m not going to dignify that with an answer.”

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      filmgirlmazzieD
      9/16/15 1:19pm

      Or...to tell time duh (said as a 14 year old with an attitude).

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    toothpetardGlenn Greenwald, co-founder of The Intercept
    9/16/15 12:59pm

    Doesn’t look like the kids in the STEM ad at all.

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      DoctorNinetoothpetard
      9/16/15 1:10pm

      Needs some ice-blue contacts and a dye job. Fit right in then.

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      The truth is out there.. (in the grays)DoctorNine
      9/16/15 1:33pm

      And a big jar of mayonnaise!!

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    UngratefulDeadGlenn Greenwald, co-founder of The Intercept
    9/16/15 1:02pm

    One crazy thing about this is that, pre 9/11, one of the most common stereotypes of Arabs (yes, I know this kid was Sudanese, but let’s not give the racists too much credit here) in America was actually “they’re good with electronics”. Boy, those must have been the days.

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      1llamarampage will write againUngratefulDead
      9/16/15 1:23pm

      The majority of Muslims in original-flavor Sudan are in fact of Arabian, not African, descent, and would be really offended if you described them as “African” in terms of race and not geography, so you’re all good without qualifiers.

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      plights & gripes as bad as achillesUngratefulDead
      9/16/15 1:26pm

      Not to ignore the thrust of your comment, but if he’s Sudanese then he’s likely Arab. Your point about giving too much credit stands, though; in this case, we can chalk it up to a lucky guess.

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    AuntEggmaBlowtorchGlenn Greenwald, co-founder of The Intercept
    9/16/15 1:21pm

    We really do deserve Trump as our president. He’s the most like us, really—or at least the most like our international image. We deserve him.

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      Armageddon T. ThunderbirdAuntEggmaBlowtorch
      9/16/15 1:26pm

      We certainly earned him (with our collective disinterest.)

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      Jerry-NetherlandAuntEggmaBlowtorch
      9/16/15 1:44pm

      He’s the blowhard uncle we see only at Thanksgiving. We all have one.

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