Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
from the said-and-done dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Mithras with a comment about the “Patriot Reporter” and his claims about his wealth:
$5 million a month…
But he needs a sideline as a realtor?
That’s really making me doubt the $5 million a month.
In second place, it’s That One Guy with a comment about the FOP police union endorsing Donald Trump:
‘We are staunchly against criminals and criminal actions! … that aren’t on our side.’
Nothing like a union for law enforcement officially endorsing a convicted felon for office to give away the game on how much they actually care about upholding the law and how they are super-duper against those that break it.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with an anonymous comment about the problem with government plans to take money from tech companies and give it to journalists:
This is the flaw in the entire concept. Having the government, any government, distributing money to support “journalists” is an open invitation to every kind of grift. “Big guys” have a staff of writers, and access to experts, who can write elegant proposals demonstrating why they can put the money to “best use,” but their definition of best use is likely to be their pocketbook. The journalists we’ve lost are the crusaders, those who diligently follow specific government and business activities and courageously expose fraud, waste, special interests, and stupidity. No government agency is going to support those annoying troublemakers!
Next, it’s another anonymous comment, this time on our post about a David Bowie song being removed from Alan Wake, in response to another comment about how this kind of thing is expected:
Sure. But it should never be a thing in the first place.
Imagine if to rerelease any Queen song, because of contract, that they had to have Bowie’s part’s taken out.
We do not do this for other type of work other than music either. CG, video game art, art in general, sound effects even, and so on do not have this idiotic problem.
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is That One Guy again, with a comment about Mark Zuckerberg’s vow to stop apologizing to bad faith politicians:
Five minutes later…
Zuckerberg: I am done apologizing to bad faith actors for things that aren’t actually my fault or the fault of those that work for me!
Politician: Boo!
Zuckerberg: Ah! I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I promise I’ll do whatever you want me to and get right on fixing whatever you want me to which I’m sure you’re right in blaming me for, just don’t do the mean face again!
In second place, it’s an anonymous comment about the call for warning labels on social media:
I don’t see why you would oppose this idea.
They put Surgeon General labels on cigarettes and everyone stopped smoking almost immediately.
They started requiring nutrition labels on food and poof! not only did obesity disappear, so did all those unhealthy fast food restaurants.
They put explicit language warnings on Rap albums and that whole genre of music folded up and found real jobs.
Warning labels are magic! If anything might be double-plus ungood, just add a warning label and problem solved.
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out Nick-B and another comment about the Alan Wake song removal:
David Bowie would NEVER have written the song Space Oddity (1969) if he knew that a game released in 2010 would be allowed to have the exact same song playing over the same end credits 14 years later.
/s
Finally, it’s one more comment from That One Guy, summing up what happened with Utah’s protect-the-kids law:
Cox: We’ll see you in court!
NetChoice: Yes, you will.
Cox: Wait, no!
That’s all for this week, folks!
Comments on “Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt”
Being exposed to Cox is harmful to children.
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Well, obviously! Just look at his name!
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By god, it’s been right infront of us all along!
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That’s the joke.
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It went over my head. Me stupid.
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Sit up a little higher
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Samuel Abram: Joins in with obvious joke.
Techdirt Chuclefucks: *whooooooosh!*
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Wow. Democrats again tried—and failed—to assassinate Donald Trump!!
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Wow, trolls tried to blame a party for the acts of an individual who wanted a Haley and Ramaswamy ticket. It’s like you won’t let slip any opportunity to blame Democrats for the actions of conservative gun nuts.
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Democrats are the party of political violence.
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Republican policies have resulted in the easy availability of the AR-15, which has been the weapon of choice for mass casualty shooters in recent years.
Republicans have been whipping up anti-immigrant sentiment—aimed of people of color, naturally—to the point where bomb threats to Springfield, Ohio have resulted in school lockdowns and the closure of City Hall.
Republicans have done the same thing to trans people, such that children’s hospitals that provably never treated trans children with surgery had bomb threats called in on them.
The current leader of the GOP instigated a riot at the U.S. Capitol with the intent of disrupting the certification of a free and fair election. He has promised to pardon those rioters. He has implied that more violence will take place if he loses this upcoming election.
If a party of political violence exists in the U.S., it is the party whose rhetoric and policies instigate and perpetuate violence. By and large, that is the GOP.
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Democrats know they can’t win at the ballot box, so they’re literally trying to kill the Republican challenger.
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Republicans realize they have the possibility of losing, and thus have resorted to petty terrorism and pogroms aimed at anyone who isn’t straight, white and slobbering over Putin’s needledick.
Even Putin is so disgusted at this flagrant show of simping he “endorsed” Kamala Harris.
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didn’t putin throw people who supported him way to much into the gulag too
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Bruh “the ballot box or the cartridge box” Is a MAGA thing.
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Sure, just like Democrats couldn’t win in 2020. Keep telling yourself that.
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If Deep State Democrats don’t succeed in killing Trump before the election, he will win the Presidency.
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Doh! The Derp State is at it again with their devious tricks! Whatever will our noble hate-filled fascist bigots do in the face of voters not liking an aging, pants-shitting megalomaniacal dementia patient?!?
::que Benny Hill music::
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If voters didn’t love former President Trump, Kamaltoe’s allies in the IC wouldn’t be trying to kill him.
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buddy no one wants your hate filled bullshit and we know your bullshiting
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Hey, I also enjoy playing Cards Against Humanity!
If Martians didn’t love Trump, then JFK’s zombie corpse wouldn’t be trying to kill him.
If a Satanic death cult from a remote island in the arctic didn’t love Trump, then seagulls with stolen French fries wouldn’t be trying to kill him.
If Obama’s tan suit didn’t love Trump, then your mom wouldn’t be trying to kill him.
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Donald Trump instigated a riot-turned-insurrection in 2021. He still makes jokes about the violent attack against Paul Pelosi that his rhetoric helped instigate. You can find tailgate covers featuring imagery of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris being hogtied, which is not only expressing the idea of kidnapping either Biden or Harris, but is surrounded by pro-Trump messaging. Republican policies and rhetoric around the Second Amendment are designed to make massacres more likely to happen and less likely to be prevented by even halfway-decent gun control laws—“a fact of life”, as JD Vance would put it.
Show me any sitting Democrat lawmaker who condones, espouses, and/or shares any kind of violent imagery/rhetoric targeting Republicans. And no, Democrats saying “Donald Trump is a threat to democracy” doesn’t count.
Also: What proof do you have that this new shooter is a Democrat supporter?
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You probably blame rape victims for dressing like dumb sluts and being cock-teases.
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Mark you this, Bassanio,
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart:
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
-William Shakespeare, ‘The Merchant of Venice’
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The only person to blame for a rape is the rapist. They’re the one who made the decision to violate someone else’s bodily against their will for the sake of selfish hedonistic pleasure. How a given person dresses or acts doesn’t excuse or absolve someone else of raping that person. Anyone who thinks otherwise is little better than the rapists they’re implicitly trying to defend.
And by the by, that deflection does nothing to address the comment to which you replied. Which Democrats have espoused violent rhetoric equal to or worse than the violent rhetoric of Donald Trump and his GOP cohorts, and what proof do you have that the man arrested today at Trump’s golf course is a Democrat supporter?
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The latest Trump assassin donated to ActBlue 19 times, has a Biden/Harris sticker on his truck, & vehemently hates Trump. His political ideology couldn’t be more clear!
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Have you stopped beating children yet?
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you can shut the fuck up now just becuase there part of a ideology doesn’t mean everyone in that ideology is like that
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You sound like a violent person who probably supports assassinating one’s political opposition.
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you sound like your deflecting the question with insults
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this is your 2nd deflection in a row
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Not the AC you replied to, but the suspect in the latest assassination attempt apparently voted in North Carolina’s Democratic primary in March of this year, which I would say is sufficient to count as a Democrat supporter.
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It’s important to note that while North Carolina doesn’t have fully “open” primaries, they are functionally open since the Democratic and Republican Parties have allowed unaffiliated voters to vote in their primaries since the 80s and 90s. Some voters will intentionally vote in a primary for a weaker candidate who they want their preferred candidate from another party to win against in the general election. So you can’t assume that a vote in a primary election is in fact support for that party.
And some people who are supporters of a party will vote in the primary for a losing candidate and then not vote for the party candidate who beat them in the general. There are going to be plenty of Republican voters who don’t vote for Trump in November.
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Right now, North Carolina is a swing state where Republicans and Democrats are currentlyy tied in the polls, meaning that right now, every vote for the Dems is support for them. But you knew that, didn’t you?
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You completely missed the point of my comment. Reread it. Votes in the primary don’t carry over to the general election, so no, every vote in the primary is only relevant for who runs in the general election and is not necessarily support for the Democratic Party itself or the candidate who won the primary.
You also can’t assume you know why voters voted. Not everyone votes for the same reasons. Not everyone votes for people they support. Not everyone votes for members of parties they support.
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This is going to age like milk in a sauna.
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This is aging excellent.
At least you tried.
“But he needs a sideline as a realtor?
That’s really making me doubt the $5 million a month.”
So, without the realtor job, you believed he was making five million per month? I have an election to sell you.
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Seeing as we are unfamiliar with sarcasm, I shall close the register at this point.
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if trump cannot get fair use stick, https://torrentfreak.com/eddy-grant-wins-trumps-fair-use-of-electric-avenue-was-anything-but-240916/ , what chance do ordinary citizens have against the copyright infringement determination?
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You the president of Incel Copyright Shills For Trump? Or just a member?
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Trump’s team used a work for a campaign video, which isn’t fair use. This should be a lesson for you on where some of the limitations of fair use do actually exist. You could learn these lessons from studying caselaw. Well, other people could. You seem incapable of learning anything even when the reality is presented to you multiple times.
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That’s not quite right. Yes, Trump’s team’s use of a particular song was judged to not be fair use, but that doesn’t mean all use of songs in campaign videos are never fair use. That’s why fair use is decided on a case-by-case basis.
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This. If a pop star turned politician was running for a particular office, it would be fair use for their opposition to use one of their songs to criticize them.
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I said that “Trump’s team used a work for a campaign video, which isn’t fair use” because in this instance, it wasn’t. I didn’t say, “Trump’s team used a work for a campaign video, which is never fair use.”
It wasn’t a fair use because, as the article Terop posted, “The animator didn’t ask Grant for permission and when the Trump team spotted the animation on Twitter, a decision was made to post it on Trump’s Twitter account, also without asking Grant for permission.”
My statement wasn’t a general declaration of what is or isn’t fair use. It was a direct response to Terop pretending that Trump was given a bad judgment in court. Trump’s use wasn’t fair use, so it shouldn’t be surprising he didn’t win in court. But Terop has a twisted, delusional view of US copyright law, a documented complete lack of knowledge of the public domain, and a fan fiction series of copyright maximalist fantasies.
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Exactly, and it was thus a general statement. What you should have said was, “Trump’s team used a work for a campaign video, which wasn’t fair use in that case,” but you always have to argue against what someone else says, regardless of how correct it is, just like you did above.
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Not in the context of what I was replying to. If my statement was just a general statement, it wouldn’t have been in response to Terop’s comment. You should read Terop’s comment, then mine, and hopefully understand the history of Terop’s failure to understand copyright law. I didn’t write that statement to you, so your interpretation of what I meant is irrelevant.
If I were speaking generally, yes, but I was responding to a specific comment about a specific scenario. The “in that case” part is implied in the context.
I disagree with people telling me what I meant. I clarify misunderstandings. You see to think you are the arbiter of truth on subjective matters. That’s a weird stance to take.
The law enforcement pipeline
The police unions have been, as we’ve watched right here on TD, the freikorps to Sturmabteilung to Sicherheitsdienst pipeline.
(Note that the pipeline of the German Reich was not quite as direct. In the summer of 1934, the Sturmabteilung were long-knifed by the Schutzstaffel, a competing NSDAP paramilitary group, which supplanted Röhm’s Brownshirted stormtroopers. Heydrich started the Sicherheitsdienst as an intel-gathering secret-police subdivision of the SS. As part of the enemy within narrative of the fascist movement, Heydrich’s SD began rounding up undesirables into detention centers. Expansion of this due to overcrowding created need for the concentration camp system, the ghettos and eventually the extermination machine of the Holocaust.)
So yes, the Endlösung der Judenfrage is the final destination of the police pipeline, and in the US it can totally happen here… Is already happening here…
Looks from BBC to American media landscape back to BBC.
This kinda feels like the Republican response to healthcare policies that work in every developed country except ours.
on the topic of social media and bad faith politicians...
… did everyone see that Thierry Breton has “resigned”?
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i had not, thanks.
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You can’t fire me; I resign.
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i almost wrote that he “got resigned” but i wasn’t sure if people would get that reference.
but, yeah. you can’t fire him, he quit.