• hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Nick Shirley, the “Minnesota Somalian daycare fraud” guy. If you watch him talk, or do much of anything, it is pretty clear he’s not particularly sharp.

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      He did an interview with channel 5 and called out Andrew Callahan afterward saying they chopped the interview to make him look bad. Andrew responded and explained that they edit interviews in such a way to make them smoother without stops to clarify questions, ums and ahs. He also provided behind the scenes footage. This Nick Shirley guy isn’t very articulate or well versed in what he claims to be.

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          I tried to watch that interview (not this well-deserved rebuttal, the original) and just couldn’t force my way through about half, wherever the (dumbass) Brazilian favela story ends. Despite Callaghan and team’s sincere efforts, Nick just comes off like the fucking moron he is.

          Ignorant about the things he himself has chosen to squawk about, while also truly lacking the mental “equipment” to engage with the topics in any complexity.

          Like, any complexity, he seemed completely unable to manage the difference between the ideas “95% of Somali immigrants are law-abiding” and (his claim) “89% of fraud in Minnesota is committed by Somalis”. Those can actually both be true and they aren’t even very complicated but it was too much for him.

          To be clear I’m not weighing in on those stats whatsoever, just the fact that he could not navigate the nuances between them at all.

          He’s not just wrong and hateful, he’s fully incapable of understanding the exact phenomena that he somehow feels called to scrutinize and then scream about. He doesn’t realize that “real” conversation on the topic would go completely over his head, he’s so foolish that he can’t even see how out of his own depth he is.

          I’d love to just call him a clown and move on but his flavor of horseshit is SO dangerous these days, as we see!

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          This is fantastic. Just goes to show what kind of people that Shirley guy surrounds himself with already. He probably believes that being interviewed should only reflect the views he agrees with and not be a fair nuetral ground where if you fuck up then you fucked up. The people he surrounds himself with all edit those parts out which is half the problem on it’s own. I always liked Andrew for that reason, he definitely never seemed to take 1 side and has no problem showing captured footage of you making yourself look bad.

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      Holy shit, the dude grew up in a place called Farmington.

      That’s the most made up sounding place name I’ve ever heard.

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        It’s a exurb on the outskirts of Minneapolis. Mostly oil refineries but has a private high school with a really good hockey team.

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              That’s a name I haven’t heard in a very long time.

              I met my first love in that world. We lived in the wilderness and made a humble living fishing for crabs. One day I came back from the bank and found her missing, her items in a bundle, signs of a struggle, no replies in her PM. I searched the wastes for days, taking on multiple PvPs for any info about her. Finally, giving in to my grief, I set sail for Teardrop island to begin my fishing career anew, and when I stepped off that boat: - lo - there she was, garbed in fishwife attire, macking on that wretched curr McDichel as he enticed her with promises of boats and cider.

              I haven’t logged in since.

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        To be fair, all names are made up, and not just for places. But yes, Farmington is a little more simplistic than say Louisiana.