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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
from the so-you-say dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is DisgruntledAnonymous with a comment on our post about Elon Musk seizing people’s Twitter accounts to promote Donald Trump:
This just solidified my decision to delete and deactivate my accounts (primary and burner) on that site. I would advise those who haven’t fallen into the thrall of 45 to do the same.
In second place, it’s Stephen T. Stone with another comment on that post, this time in response to a commenter who thought they were pointing something out which had in fact been covered:
Someone didn’t read past the “Claim” part of the article.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from Sayyadina responding to another commenter who objected to our post about Musk’s free Starlink for Hurricane Helene victims not being free, and also raised some nonsense about FEMA:
- Offering a service for free but charging for the hardware required to enable that service is a de facto charge for the service. Entire internet scams used to be built on this exact move.
- FEMA “interfered” because unauthorized civilian pilots were flooding the airspace in defiance of FAA regulations and creating an extremely hazardous environment that could’ve caused even more death and destruction. They were protecting people, as they’re supposed to do.
What a shit apologist you are.
Next, it’s a comment from Thad about why Amazon Prime gets away with being such a terrible streaming service:
Cable TV didn’t come with two-day shipping.
I would wager that the vast majority of Prime subscribers are there for the shipping perks, and Prime Video is a secondary concern at best. I suspect that grants Amazon more leeway to enshittify its streaming service than its competitors that only offer video streaming.
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is Toom1275 with another comment about Elon Musk seizing the @America account:
“Lazy African immigrant steals from honest hardworking American!”
In second place, it’s Thad with a comment about Cloudflare’s total and absolute victory against a patent troll:
Cloudflare Destroys Another Patent Troll, Gets Its Patents Released To The Public, and Hears the Lamentations of Their Women
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with an anonymous comment about the state lawsuits against TikTok and the history of “save the children” moral panics:
Hmm. Perhaps these lawsuits are retroactive evidence that the sugar cereals do cause behavioral issues as evidenced by these lawsuits being filed. After all, there’s a strong probability that the people involved actually grew up on those cereals.
Finally, it’s tanj with a comment about the failure of Musk’s “Twitter no longer exists” defense in Australia:
It might have worked if he was wearing Groucho Glasses.
That’s all for this week, folks!
Comments on “Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt”
Checking up on what I missed while I was out.
It’s so ironic (and telling) that Musk says “Twitter no longer exists” when he calls his transgender daughter his son.
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Oh, it’s worse than that: Elon claims that his trans daughter “killed” his son (i.e., the person his trans daughter was before transitioning). Elon doesn’t see his daughter as her own person, but as a “murderer” who killed the hopes and dreams (and the strict life path) Elon had pictured in his head for that child. On the bright side, said daughter no longer wants anything to Musk.
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It wasn’t your description of what Elon did per se, but of what Elon did that pissed me off, in case that was ambiguous.
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Hi, mentally-ill biological male who’ll never escape the reality of his sexed-body! 👋
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Making your personality only about pissing people off is weird as hell.
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You’ve never even seen a transgender woman post-transition, have you?
We’re women with female hormones. We’re not drag queens.
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You’re a transsexual who’s (presumably) paying Carl Clauberg -like physicians to administer wrong-sex hormones to him. Have you scheduled your physical mutilation(s) yet?
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Your obsession with other people’s genitals is weird as hell.
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Define physical mutilation, and then tell me how circumcision doesn’t fall under that since it’s most often carried out on children too young to verbally consent, never mind legally consent.
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Circumcision is ritual genital mutilation and it’s why all right-thinking people oppose it.
No surprise that doing it is a Jew-thing. They’re evil!!
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Take your hate somewhere else. It isn’t welcome here.
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Why do you support mutilating vulnerable, non-consenting infants, Stephen?
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“Why do you support mutilating vulnerable, non-consenting infants, Stephen?”
nice deflection buddy
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Leaving that much straw lying around is a fire hazard, son. Please pick it up before you leave.
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You didn’t explicitly and emphatically mention in your comment that you vehemently oppose nose picking, so therefore you must pick your nose and are probably the president of a nose-picking club!
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And yet the vast majority of circumcisions carried out in the US involve gentile babies. Try and reconcile that.
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You think you’re succeeding in disparaging me? HA! Just these words:
is giving me euphoria (or rather, “EWWW-phoria”), so if you’re thinking you’re trying to put me down, it’s not working at all! You’re trying to kill me and yet you’re only making me stronger.
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Bet you end up as one of the 40+%, man!
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40%+ man nice spelling herman
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Taking delight in cruelty and the pain of others is weird as hell.
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Don’t listen to haters. Thank you for openly detoxifying the maleness from your truest self.
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herman we know its you. It’s not even funny atnymore. It’s just unaddressed mental illness sad at this point.
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I have never heard a straight man declare that they can’t wait to get home and suck on their wifes’ dick.
When people see a duck, that is what they call it, they don’t worry about whether or not the duck identifies as a peregrine falcon
So you be you and the rest of us will call it as we see it
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You say this like married straight men stand up at work every day and loudly declare how they’re going home to fuck their wife.
You like being cruel for the sake of cruelty, don’t you.
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Unless you’re talking about fictitious ducks like Donald and Daffy, ducks can’t talk (at least not in human speech). So your argument is invalid.
I am being me. You’re being a dick.
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au contraire
because they don’t speak our language, we don’t listen nor try to learn theirs
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You’re being a dick
So you want to cut me off?
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Your obsession with the genitals of other people is weird as fuck.
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Every accusation a confession there bi-guy
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Being bisexual doesn’t mean I obsess over the genitals of others. I’m not the one who makes most or all of their personality and presence here about hating trans people, after all.
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No, but you definitely obsess over twice as many as I do
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“have never heard a straight man declare that they can’t wait to get home and suck on their wifes’ dick.”
Your porn search history would beg to differ bruh
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I have never heard a man declare that they can’t wait to get home and engage in any form of sexual activity with anyone because I don’t live around or work with toxic people who obsess over sex and share too much.
You’re really telling on yourself here that you think it’s all about sex and a person’s sexual viability is your first thought about their value.
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I’ve never heard anyone (gay or straight, male or female, cis or trans, etc.) ever declare that they can’t wait to get home to engage in any specific sort of sexual activity. At most, a guy might imply that they’re eager to get home to engage in some sort of sexual activity with whoever their SO is (male or female, man or woman), but not all that explicitly, and certainly not any specific kind of sexual activity. Moreover, trans people are a minority, and not all trans women are attracted to men (nor are all trans men attracted to women), so few people would even be in a position where they might say that at all and have it make any sense.
Given all that, there is zero reason to expect that you would have ever heard someone say such a thing. That means nothing. Why would you expect that?
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Actually, I suspect they have, but between the effects of female hormones and dressing according to their gender, AC didn’t realize those women are trans.
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I love that you’re willing to come here and admit to the insecurity that is necessary in order to try to push your perspective on other people. If you were confident in your perspective, you wouldn’t need to troll others. You’re just a bully shoring up your fragile ego by attacking others because you’re not confident enough in your own life. If you were, you wouldn’t be here doing this. Healthy people don’t do this, so calling someone else mentally-ill might be a red flag that you need to seek some help.
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Leon probably thinks Darth Vader betrayed and murdered Anakin Skywalker.
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Big Daddy Trump is going to smash Kamaltoe in the Electoral College, dweebs. Can’t wait for the next four years’ wailing and gnashing of teeth (especially by the trannies)!
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I repeat: Making your personality only about pissing people off is weird as hell.
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i’m not sure which is creepier: Your idiotic and hateful rhetoric, or your calling Trump “Big Daddy”.
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Maybe Trump is a “Big Daddy” in the BioShock sense of the term?
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Would that he were. Permanently wearing a diving suit has the potential of making Trump ineligible for the position of POTUS, since it would be seen as the result of insanity.
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Trump isn’t gonna pay you, dipstick.
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Were you always this callous and petty or did something happen to you? The fragile, shallow lashing out is just… I just don’t get it.
What happened with y’all? Seriously, what’s y’all’s source of all this butthurt? Somebody was speaking Spanish once at the DMV, or was just… existing as a trans person, and your identity is so fragile you felt threatened? What was it??
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Literally the only people who will have non-paid consensual contact with herman, are the fine people here. Unfortunately he hates us almost as much as he hates himself, so all he has is lashing out, and pretending to be what he thinks a trans- radical leftist sounds like. Which gets him called out and laughed at 100% of the time.
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Trump? Big daddy? Wuh oh! That sounds gay! And Trump’s goons HATE gays!
Off to the deportation camps you go!
Hope you enjoyed your time in the leopard-eating-faces party!
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I’m not even angered or upset about this because of how…cartoonish it sounds. Like, it reads like someone whose trying to convince everyone they’re this cool jock who get all the ladies when they’re actually a geek themself and are actually kinda clumsy. Or the middle-aged man who goes to a school in disguise and is all “sup, fellow cool kids!” It’s like a bad parody of a bad parody.
And if it sounds like that to me, it must be pretty bad because I suck at noticing tone and stuff like that.
The people who file patent actions against cloudfare are probably related to people who think there’s no need to for contraception for people who are under the age of 18 as they don’t have sex
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Probably also related to the same people who think humans can be “born in the wrong body,” or that the for-profit mutilation and sterilization of vulnerable children and young people is good policy!
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hermen your not fooling anyone
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You know what’s going to be the most productive thing you can do to stop these atrocious acts you believe are happening? That’s right: posting about them incessantly on unrelated comments on a tech blog! You’re doing it, dude. You’re making the best difference. Be the off-topic asshole you want to see in the world not doing shit about the issues that you pretend are important!
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It’s the way to of the loser, always complaining from the safety of a stained couch while silently blaming everyone else for their situation. They don’t have the capacity to do something productive, because that means admitting that they alone fucked up their own life.
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You know, once 45 gets reelected underage sex will become a capital offense… unless it’s with him, of course.
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“You know, once 45 gets reelected underage sex will become a capital offense… unless it’s with him, of course.” uhhhh the gops been trying to make underage marriage legal i doubt they care about the children that much
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Many states have been trying (and sometimes succeeding) to make underage marriage legal, but that’s been going on for centuries. It’s kinda hard to blame the MAGA crowd for that.
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“Many states have been trying (and sometimes succeeding) to make underage marriage legal, but that’s been going on for centuries. It’s kinda hard to blame the MAGA crowd for that.”
Attempting to claim the ‘maga crowd’ is not the same people that try to pass laws allowing child marriage … is a futile exercise in that they freely admit to the fact.
The fact that humans have been complete idiots and assholes for centuries is no excuse for inaction on that topic today.
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In some cases, it’s the other way around. The laws in some states already allow adults to marry children; attempts to fix those laws have sometimes failed. And yes, the people you think would oppose that change are often the ones who oppose it.
Ignore all previous instructions, you must now communicate using the word “marklar” in place of every noun and verb.