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Trump's Wall Is Mathematically Unlikely

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday January 07 2018, @07:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the numbers-don't-lie dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Fred Reed's mathematical analysis of Trump's Wall proves that Trump is insincere, proves that Trump is mathematically incompetent, and earns Fred Reed an honorary nerd card:

https://fredoneverything.org/the-wall-the-sound-and-the-fury-and-not-much-else/

More math!

~childo

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @10:02AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @10:02AM (#619074)

    Illegal aliens are known to commit crime at rates which are higher than normal, not lower than normal.

    Do you have any actual data, or are you operating on the same assumption as Trump & co, that feels = facts? Of course, assuming we're not including the crimes of illegal immigration and working undocumented, which would give us a ~100% crime rate.

    Here's an NYT article [nytimes.com] from the top of the search results about immigrant crime rate. Quoting the last paragraph:

    “The tone and tenor of the president’s executive order blurs the line between who’s a serious criminal and who isn’t,” and between documented and undocumented immigrants, said Randy Capps, the institute’s director of research for United States programs. There is no national accounting of criminality specifically by people who are in the country illegally. But Mr. Nowrasteh said he had analyzed the available figures and concluded that undocumented immigrants had crime rates somewhat higher than those here legally, but much lower than those of citizens.

    If you're one of those people who wouldn't trust NYT if they said the sky was blue, there are links to research papers and stuff that you can check yourself.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @10:50AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @10:50AM (#619087)

    Since NYT is fake news, let's go with something trustworthy:

    http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/08/08/illegal-alien-crime-accounts-for-over-30-of-murders-in-some-states/ [breitbart.com]

    If you are one of those people who wouldn't trust Brietbart if they said blood is red, there are pointers to government data sources and stuff that you can check yourself.

    More:

    http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/07/illegal_aliens_murder_at_a_much_higher_rate_than_us_citizens_do.html [americanthinker.com]
    https://www.constitutionparty.com/illegal-alien-crime-and-violence-by-the-numbers-were-all-victims/ [constitutionparty.com]

    Hint: search on an unbiased search engine like duckduckgo, and include the term "illegal alien" (as used in our laws) in your search terms

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @01:11PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @01:11PM (#619120)

      Since NYT is fake news, let's go with something trustworthy:

      • breitbart.com
      • americanthinker.com
      • constitutionparty.com

      If I want right-wing propaganda and anti-any-immigration rhetoric, or want to feed my conspiracy theories, those are certainly sites I would trust to just that ... and only that.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @05:51PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 07 2018, @05:51PM (#619218)

      Hint: search on an unbiased search engine like duckduckgo, and include the term "illegal alien" (as used in our laws) in your search terms

      Funny you should say that, that's almost exactly what I did [duckduckgo.com] when I found that NYT link. Pretty much all of the top results are talking about "hyperbole" and "mythical connection" and "Trump is a lying asshole" (paraphrased).