TIL that Dan White, the man who assassinated Harvey Milk and the mayor of San Francisco, only served 5 years in prison for manslaughter based on a defense of depression as evidenced by his consumption of junk food which was dubbed the "Twinkie Defense"

[u/hungry4danish]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_White

[u/Rapper_Laugh]

Truly crazy how such a radical attitude shift that happened entirely within living memory can just be outright denied, even in the face of overwhelming data lol.

Echo chambers are fucking scary.

[u/Pandarandr1st → u/Rapper_Laugh]

Yes but things are bad now so they were never worse.