If I had a bowl of skittles and told you just 3 will kill you?

Apophenia · Sep 20, 2016

BONECRUSHER said:
I say let all refugees come to the U.S., but only as many as citizens of the U.S. are willing to let refugees reside in their actual residence! This way, liberals can feel good about actually helping others directly...letting them stay in their homes...instead of always telling "other people" or the government to do the "helping". Liberals...this is a great idea for you to help humanity! If you agree...!
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This is called to walk the walk. Politicos usually don't have skin in the game. Shaaaame.

Covertibility · Sep 20, 2016

The White Race appears to be upset that reasoning is undermining their bigotry.

Hating on Vox by the fans of the ever accurate FOXNews,

The Greatest Pie Chart Ever:

8.6% > 8.8% and 8.6% = 9.0%

This one is a doozy, no y axis, says quarterly data yet they pick random months,

And of course, FDR wanted to privitize social security.

Keep America dumb, vote Republican.

piezoe · Sep 20, 2016

Covertibility said:
Donald Trump Jr.'s terrorist-Skittle analogy is completely wrong

Let’s do some Skittle math!
The image posted by Trump pictures a small bowl containing perhaps 100 Skittles. Assuming that three of said Skittles could kill you, eating a handful from this tiny bowl would, indeed, be risky.

Here’s the thing, though: The image drastically oversells the "risk" posed by these Skittles (read: refugees).

A report released last week by the Cato Institute measured the risk to Americans posed by refugees. The report found that an American’s chances of being killed by a refugee in a terrorist attack in any given year are 1 in 3.64 billion. America’s murder rate — at 4.5 per 100,000 capita — is about 163,800 times higher.

As the Washington Post’s Philip Bump points out, adhering to Trump’s analogy, a bowl with three deadly Skittles (refugees) in it would need to contain 10.93 billion Skittles. Bump calculated this to be the equivalent of 1.5 Olympic-size swimming pools full of the candy. This would equate to a bowl of Skittles roughly 246 feet long, 123 feet high, and 9 feet deep.

Below, Vox graphics editor Javier Zarracina has depicted what that bowl would look like. Donald Trump Jr. (6-foot-1) is included for scale, along with the original bowl in his tweet.

And just for fun, here is what this gargantuan bowl of Skittles would look next to Washington, DC’s (yuuuuge) Trump International Hotel:

According to Bump’s analysis, Wrigley produces 200 million Skittles a day. It would take the company 54 days to produce the number of Skittles necessary to fill this bowl — and only three would pose a risk.

Or you could think of it this way: You’d have to go through 202,407,407 bags of Skittles (each of which contains about 54 candies) in order to find the three individual pieces that are contaminated.

Trump’s tweet, much like the rhetoric of his father, insinuates that inviting refugees to the United States is a deadly risk not worth taking. But that risk, in reality, is infinitesimally small.

Note: Several readers have argued that Trump Jr.'s tweet solely refers to Syrian refugees. In that case: Since October of 2015, the United States has admitted roughly 8,000 Syrian refugees. Not one has committed an act of terrorism. That's zero deadly Skittles.

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Bravo!

Snarkhund · Sep 20, 2016

The Skittles analogy is brilliant.

Democrats still cannot explain how the USA benefits from muslim immigration or why we should be comfortable with open borders. They simply have no reason they are willing to share.

piezoe · Sep 20, 2016

fhl said:
I think his analogy is wrong, too.
There are a lot more than 3 Syrians who would like to kill us.
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That's certainly true. But the number willing to strap a bomb on their back is strictly limited, thank God! Why not just herd them all into someplace useless like central Arkansas and see to it they can't get out? (Please allow for the fact that the most disreputable asshole I have encountered was from Arkansas, and I am not referring to Bill.)

piezoe · Sep 20, 2016

Snarkhund said:
The Skittles analogy is brilliant.

Democrats still cannot explain how the USA benefits from muslim immigration or why we should be comfortable with open borders. They simply have no reason they are willing to share.
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If you are human, then it is natural to concern yourself with humanitarian problems. But what would you know about that!

futurecurrents · Sep 21, 2016

On the day that the news was reporting the bombing about thirty people were killed with guns. Never seems to get mentioned. I guess it's just normal. No big deal.

BONECRUSHER · Sep 21, 2016

futurecurrents said:
On the day that the news was reporting the bombing about thirty people were killed with guns. Never seems to get mentioned. I guess it's just normal. No big deal.
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I guess we should just get rid of all vehicles too! National Safety Council: 1.3 million die of road crashes each year...3,287 deaths a day worldwide!!! And you're worried about GUNS? People are driving a "GUN" everyday!

achilles28 · Sep 21, 2016

Safe zones.

Save Syrian lives. Save American lives.

Problem solved.

futurecurrents · Sep 21, 2016

BONECRUSHER said:
I guess we should just get rid of all vehicles too! National Safety Council: 1.3 million die of road crashes each year...3,287 deaths a day worldwide!!! And you're worried about GUNS? People are driving a "GUN" everyday!
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Need cars, and they serve a useful purpose. We don't need guns.