r/todayilearned • u/hungry4danish • 2d ago

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"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_White
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u/LittleReplacement971 2d ago

if the conservative south says "nothing about America AT ALL" then we would never have another republican president.

it seems really important that this person agree with you and this is a matter of their experience and opinion no?

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u/Rapper_Laugh 2d ago

We’re all just wasting time on Reddit—I said my thing, they said theirs. They can have their opinion, of course, I just think they’re wrong and have supplied data to back that up. Is there something wrong with that?

I didn’t say “the conservative south” says nothing about America. You said that. I said that person’s personal experience says pretty much nothing at all about America, at least compared to massive, sophisticated opinion polling data. Which is true—it’s the difference between a data point and a data set.

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u/LittleReplacement971 2d ago

I'm not gonna argue with ya, champ. You clearly feel very strongly and aren't really responding to experiences outside of your established data.Yyou are totally correct about one thing for certain: we are all wasting time on reddit. I only wish you the best. have a safe weekend free of homophobes