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The right somehow got even dumber about Ahmed’s clock

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Carl Beijer
Sep 18, 2015
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Earlier today I took up the excruciating chore of explaining that bombs have explosives and clocks do not, which is how we can always tell a clock from a bomb. This is not something that any adult in the universe actually needs anyone to explain, but I thought it was worth hammering home just how ridiculous a pretext this is for harassing and defaming a…

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