Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
from the as-you-say dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is an anonymous comment about DOGE’s supposed savings:
It’s easy to afford a car and house when you don’t do any maintenance on it.
I’ve come to the conclusion that right wingers have no concept of short term vs long term costs.
In second place, it’s some anonymous speculation in reply to a comment about the “pedo guy” fiasco:
Knowing what I’ve learned about right wing projection over the past decades, every accusation being a confession and all, my feeling is that it’s for the better Elon was nowhere near those kids.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from Bloof about the disappointing media response to the White House banning journalists:
They alienated the left and center by trying to appeal to people on the right, hiring people who would see them shut down given half a chance. They thought they were following the Overton window, but instead they were helping to shove it further right with every racist, war criminal or scam artist they platformed and helped to normalise.
Next, it’s an anonymous comment about Twitter paying Trump millions to settle cases it had already won:
The thing about paying protection money is that once you start, you don’t ever get to stop.
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is an anonymous quip about the fact that OpenStreetMap hasn’t changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico:
Admittedly, most cars seldom get more than a couple lengths into the Gulf (by whatever name) before they stop.
In second place, it’s Strawb with a comment about the apparent corruption of the Twitter settlement payout:
I’m sure DOGE will sniff this out and correct it!
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we’ve got a one-two punch about the idea that “noone is above the law”, with MrWilson providing the setup:
Whoever this Noone guy is, he must be pretty happy to learn that he’s above the law.
…and an anonymous commenter bringing it home:
It’s a typo of Noonez. Last name Cow
That’s all for this week, folks!
Comments on “Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt”
to many Preachers preaching
Noticed that Many evangelicals are preaching Very Loudly and Choosing sides.
Can I suggest, that once a religious group Jumps into the Political Agenda.
TAX THEM. Post Tax them to the beginning of their group. Every piece of land and property.
It was decided long ago, that the nation would stay Out of religion, and religion should stay out of politics.
religion and politics Should be kept separate, and Personal. And never the twain shall meet.
Unless you Love Israel, Muslim nations and even CHINA and N. Korea.
remember 1 Size does NOT fit all. There isnt enough spandex to Make it fit.
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Speak up about it while you can online, before all comment sections and every small forum are eradicated in the worst-case scenario.
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dude stop and take break
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Go touch grass, my dude. I speak from experience when I say that being terminally online is fucking you up.
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Yes Hawley and a few other Senators want to be able to sue websites for hosting words that they don’t like
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Carr also wants to weaken it. All these threats to speech coming from every direction is giving me an enormous headache.
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*A headache that’s a whole lot worse for the people actually trying to run any sort of online community, to further add on.
Re: Unintended consequences
Calls to subject religious institutions to taxation, either as a milk cow for government or an in effort to silence them, will backfire.
It would be in the interest of faith-based institutions to convert to for-profit corporations. They already have worshippers who would support a move, as it would allow churches to be involved in enterprises such as running businesses, land development and even finances.
Offerings and tithes could be converted to memberships and be subject to contract law and collections.
Also, with Supreme Court rulings affirming First Amendment rights for freedom of worship, those would be retained on constitutional grounds even if the religious institutions convert to a for-profit corporation.
About that...
I’m kicking myself for making a typo of my own because Devin Nunes does not end with a Z
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Eh, the MAGA approach is to be confidently wrong and just keep asserting your chosen narrative. From now on, Devin Nunes has always misspelled his own name!
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FTFY
Dan fuckin Bongino.
At what point will the GOP Congress look around and realize they’re going to be judged as part of a moronic administration?
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The ones who cared are already gone.
Last Week Tonight
John Oliver gave Techdirt a shoutout in the latest episode of his show. The episode was about content moderation. Pretty cool.
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Suppose mainstream media paying a little attention to ones who actually know what they’re talking about, in the context of content moderation, is better late than never.
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And he dismissed the idea of section 230 needing to be amended or repealed.
Finally, a big media person with some common sense.
Since ‘doge’ is an old term for a (generally corrupt) politician, it seems that DOGE is well-named indeed!
I’ve come to the conclusion that about 2/3 of the American electorate has no concept of long-term anything.
It’s the only explanation for how Trump could run on “are you better off now than you were four years ago?” and win.
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Nah, that may have been the publicly claimed platform and the excuse used by those that voted for him but it was pretty obvious from the outset that his actual platform was all about suffering and hate, and those that voted for him did so because he promised to hurt the people they hate rather than because of some nebulous ‘economic stability’ or ‘grocery prices’.