Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
from the say-it-again dept
This week, both our top comments on the insightful side come in response to our post about the misrepresentation of Ben Franklin’s opinion on content moderation by private platforms. In first place, it’s an anonymous commenter with some clarification:
So you, too, are unable to comprehend pretty basic sentences. Franklin is explaining that he can choose who to host and who not to host, and that means he gets to decide. He says that he would still print for those he disagrees with, but not distribute or promote their works.
In second place, it’s MrWilson with a different version of the same clarification, responding to someone who raised the above as supposed evidence that he opposes content moderation:
You’re confusing his willingness to print something with which he disagrees for money for a belief that printers should be forced to print anything anyone wants printed for money. The first is still a recognition of his right to moderate his practice. The second is authoritarian.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from That One Guy about the latest study showing that throwing money at cops doesn’t reduce crime:
You say ‘Extra training budget’, they hear ‘Even more settlement funds’
Probably the biggest problem with the idea of ‘more money in police pockets = better police work’ is that that requires them to want to improve. No amount of extra budget for ‘training’ for example is going to help if it’s not taken advantage of or is just ignored because following the rules/laws is ‘too much work’ and it’s easier to just violate rights/laws and throw taxpayer dollars at the resulting lawsuit(s) via ‘we admit to no wrongdoing’-settlements.
Next, it’s an anonymous comment about the latest in the deluge of hopeless and evil culture-war legislation from the states:
The worst thing about performative legislation like this?
It only stays “performative” while we keep our eye on it. The moment we decide we’re “to tired” to denounce this sort of crap is the moment where the crap starts to gain traction and become less performative.
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is an anonymous reply to someone yet again asking the tiresome question of what a particular post has to do with “tech”:
What has truth social got to do with the truth?
In second place, it’s an anonymous reply to some nonsense conspiracy theory:
Yeah, happens all the time, right after they take everyone’s guns and put the entire population into one giant FEMA camp, while using HAARP’s weather and mind control rays for fun and profit. Something about silent black UN helicopters.
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with radix and a comment about the guy who doubled down and refiled his roundly rejected lawsuit against women he dated:
Imagine thinking a federal judge is just a fancy-robe-wearing intro-to-law tutor who isn’t so much “rejecting your suit completely” as much as “redlining a first draft.”
Finally, it’s ThatOtherOtherGuy with another comment about state attempts to ban porn:
Easy Workaround
I’m going to build a gun that plays porn.
I dare anyone to try to make it illegal or regulate it without running up against the NRA and 2nd Amendment fanatics.
That’s all for this week, folks!
Comments on “Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt”
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Just more of the same anti-police hate speech this site has become notorious for… 🤮
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Just more of the same moronic drivel that this Anonymous COWARD has become notorious for…
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“If police get more money, they should be expected to justify it with results” = “anti-police hate speech”?
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Don’t play dumb, PaulT. You know exactly what’s hateful about the editor’s highlighted comment.
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Not unless you think that valid criticism equals hate.
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THERE IS NO VALID CRITICISM OF THE POLICE!
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…said no human, ever.
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If valid criticism DID equal hate, then every time a cop says someone broke the law – in a spoken statement, a written press release or even just making an arrest – that cop would be guilty of hate speech.
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What’s hateful is your deranged lies.
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Sucks to be you white boy!
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…hallucinated nobody mentally competent, ever.
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I did some quick research and I think I figured out your problem.
“What are the ingredients of shoe polish?…The absolute very most common elements are in fact lanolin, turpentine, wax…”
“Turpentine, although more expensive, is favored for its “shoe polish odor”.”
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Stop licking the boot and maybe your brain fog will clear up.
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you know… you can just choose to stop reading Techdirt. it’s called freedom of choice
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And here you getting clowned by us on the daily…
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"to tired"
The same sort of things happened with wokeness. It was allowed to infiltrate government, media, and academia while not enough people were aware of its evil enough to try to stop it. The same thing happened in Israel, where Palestinian terrorists were allowed to build their infrastructure while being complacently ignored. The same thing happened with Trump, where liberals stuck in their echo chambers failed to notice his growing appeal to people outside of them. The same thing happened with abortion, where women assumed that their liberty was unassailably assured by Roe.
You can’t rest in culture wars, because the other side doesn’t rest.
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Sorry bro. You appear to be confused. Foxnews forums are
<——— that way.
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Actually, they’re —> that way.
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And this “wokeness”—is it in the room with you right now?
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It’s on my TV, my books, and my internet, and the universities in my city, so close enough.
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And what has this “wokeness” done to personally harm you? Has it physically assaulted you or threatened to assault you?
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It has assaulted truth. It lies about history, about race, about immigration, and about human physiology. Its proponents want to force people to affirm those lies. Wokeness will lead to disaster for America the way that Lysenkoism and communism in general led to disaster for the Soviet Union. Because no matter how many people loudly proclaim lies, the universe goes about asserting its reality without caring what people wish it to be.
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Yes, but has this “wokeness” physically assaulted you or threatened to assault you?
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Donald Trump has not physically assaulted me or threatened to assault me either, but that hardly matters to his being a bad thing for America. On the other hand, the woke filth cheering for the murder, rape, and kidnapping of Jews isn’t that far off from actual physical assault, if not directly at me then at my coreligionists and my secondary homeland. So the answer is a qualified yes.
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And did you report this “wokeness” to the proper authorities? Did you or a trusted third party take pictures of the marks left by its assault on you?
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Go Stephen! Stephen T Stone that straight scumbag! Aw fuck yeah!
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Can’t even keep your fucking cover story consistent now, Hyman?
Or is the worship of what could be called an apartheid state something that’s permissible under your eternally shifting definition of atheism?
Your “coreligionists” have been told in 1967 that their military takeover of the region was illegal. And yet nothing was done save for the Arab states fighting a losing war AND funding Hamas.
Being told to follow the fucking rules isn’t a threat, Hyman.
IT’S HOW TO FUCKING FUNCTION IN A COMMUNITY. SOMETHING YOU CLEARLY DON’T FUCKING CARE FOR.
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You can keep writing in bold capitals. Israel will keep killing Palestinian terrorists and the people they hide among.
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Making fun of straight white trash like Hyman gets me so hot. Please don’t stop. I’m almost there. Mmmmph!
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Yeah, you should really pay attention to the second half of your last sentence. Kind of blows most of your preceding claims out of the water.
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Can you show us on this gender-neutral doll where Woke touched you?
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So you admit you have nothing to show.
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How does that old saying go? You know the one y’all used to be so fond of.
Oh right.
America, love it or leave it.
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“BoTh SiDeS!!!111” – Every cryptofascist ever
"Wokeness"
They fear “wokeness” because the slumber of ignorance and bigotry is so much more appealing to them. Very well, then, I say LET LYING DOGS SLEEP.