As a high school EFL teacher, this tilts me almost as hard as blaming the Cherokee for their own genocide.
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I had to put the book down after that one. I’m honestly not sure I can continue. Genocide and genocide prevention is one of my pet subjects I’ve studied and read quite a bit on, and andrew jackson is my least favorite president other than our current one. So it was like a double whammy.
You got SMACKED UP!
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A mall cop maybe. Real cops have unions.
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But Mason has the soulless grit to brutalize people when they present evidence of his crimes.
Can we at least give him a probation run as the traffic guard outside Chik-fil-A?
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Do it for this thread! You’ve gotta be past halfway by now, right?
Unless I’m misunderstanding your point, you’re giving Mason, and real cops, too much credit.
I mean cops being unionized hasn’t stopped them from cracking many the skull of organized labor.
And as for Mason, are you assuming he’s not a giant hypocrite? Remember he worked for the govt and actually complained about the long hours and low pay. That’s right, Mason is the only govt worker in the history of the world who wasn’t overpaid and lazy, according to Mason. He would have no problems at all joining a union if it benefited him.
Like exactly halfway
If you mail me the book, I will carry this burden to the finish line.
I refuse to purchase a copy.
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I’ll mail it when I’m done, I was just gonna burn it otherwise. Like literally burn it.
Where I just had to put it down again, was where he expresses more disbelief at the story of Pope Joan than the story of david and goliath.
Pope joan was almost certainly fictional I just find this hilarious for some reason.
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I cracked the random quotes code
Our superior forum software even grabs the quoted sentence in the preview.
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I mean it’s not fucking hard, is it… I’m a bit of a dunce when it comes to this stuff and I can manage it.
Tom is a cat therefore Tom is an animal. (x = cat; y = animal)
not y implies not x → Tom is not an animal therefore Tom is not a cat. True.
not x implies not y → Tom is not a cat therefore Tom is not an animal. Oops.
Lol Sklansky. He is always trying to be so cerebral, and he gets that wrong while criticising other people for failing at logic!
Yeah it’s a pretty common mistake unfortunately. I see it among my students too.
Honestly the excerpts of the book are infuriating to read. It’s clear that the book was never proofread.
Is there a name for a disorder where a person assumes everyone must be too stupid to understand rather than they are not smart enough to explain it?
Arrogance.
Edit: Unless you mean me, I was just showing how I work it out because I always fuck these things up for some reason. I’m sure everyone here understands it!
There are typos and misplaced random quotes sprinkled throughout. Weird capitalizations or non-capitalizations of words too.
type-os though.
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There is absolutely no way this was proofread numerous times. Sorry. I’d bet my roll on it.
Probably outsourced to English as a 2nd language readers working for dollars a day.
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Dunning kruger effect
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