The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[Taxman]

This story sounds like America

[djchameleon]

Originally Posted by Vanilla

Shouldn't this headline be in past tense?

Yep but I didn't make the headline. They were so excited they forgot to change kill to killed.

You still understand that it was in the past though.

[Plankton]

Not really a "I can't believe" story, but very interesting just the same:

The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by butthead aka 216

thats badass. cheers to them


theres a story that just happened on election day. a white guy basically misled voters to believe he was black and won the election in a black jurisdiction or whatever. i think his name was dan wilson or somethin. i just find that hilarious

Originally Posted by djchameleon

ROFL what a douche. I just looked it up. Dave Wilson.

Huge Anti-gay republican.

White, Anti-Gay Republican Wins Local Election After Pretending To Be Black

Baha. Baha. Bahahahahahahahahaha! That's what you dickbeaters get for being from Texas.

#davewilson4prez

[Mr. Charlie]

$83 million for a rock. A bloody rock.

BBC News - Pink Star diamond fetches record $83m at auction

[Freebase Dali]

Originally Posted by djchameleon

ROFL what a douche. I just looked it up. Dave Wilson.

Huge Anti-gay republican.

White, Anti-Gay Republican Wins Local Election After Pretending To Be Black

In the video, the guy makes a good point about research and knowing who you're voting for.
At the same time, it does say a lot that all it takes to win an election in a black majority is to be black or not white. There are some black Republicans. Might pay to vote based on record and social/political ideology rather than skin color...

[Scarlett O'Hara]

Originally Posted by djchameleon

Yep but I didn't make the headline. They were so excited they forgot to change kill to killed.

You still understand that it was in the past though.

Oh not you, I mean't the person who wrote it.

[djchameleon]

Originally Posted by Vanilla

Oh not you, I mean't the person who wrote it.

Gotcha.

Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

In the video, the guy makes a good point about research and knowing who you're voting for.
At the same time, it does say a lot that all it takes to win an election in a black majority is to be black or not white. There are some black Republicans. Might pay to vote based on record and social/political ideology rather than skin color...

Not necessarily, the whole all it takes to win an election in a black majority is to be black or not white.

In this case specifically, the guy that he was running against was black. So it was "two" black people running for the same position not just a "oh he's black let's vote for him".

The aggression of his marketing campaign and the deception that he went through to make it seem like he was a friendly candidate to vote for is the big issue here. It's actually the main reason he won. I do agree that most voters are slow and just end up voting based off of ad campaigns.

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by Vanilla

Shouldn't this headline be in past tense?

No. That's a pretty standard way of writing a headline, at least over here.

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

In the video, the guy makes a good point about research and knowing who you're voting for.

Indeed. They got who they deserved, which is in this case a lying, homophobic scumbag.

I honestly don't know how to say that in a way that doesn't make it look like I'm making a joke about Republican politicians in general, but I actually wasn't.