Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
from the if-you-say-so dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson with a comment about US Attorney Ed Martin’s apparent personal intimidation campaign against Trump/Musk rivals:
Note the direct association of “putting America first” with the act of adhering to a presidential executive order that can only apply to government employees. Sycophantry to authoritarianism is both ugly and stupid.
In second place, it’s Stephen T. Stone with a response to a comment defending Trump’s FCC because “the media will have to stop distorting the news or lying outright”:
You mean like how Fox News lied about Dominion voting machines and paid nearly a billion dollars to Dominion for telling that lie?
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we’ve got a couple of comments about the ICE prosecutor who was uncovered as the operator of a racist ExTwitter account. First, it’s Bloof with thoughts on what comes next:
He’ll quit, claim victimhood by the woke mob and corrupt journalists and spend a bunch of time as an ‘immigration expert’ on Fox and CNN, before being parachuted into a house seat in a heavily gerrymandered district.
Next, it’s an anonymous comment about the real problem:
A reminder that it’s not that this bigot shouldn’t be in this post: it’s that the post, and all of ICE, should not exist.
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is Thad with a comment about Elon Musk’s letter demanding everyone list their accomplishments:
I wonder if answering “Your mom” would get you fired, or promoted.
In second place, it’s That Anonymous Coward with a comment on our post about John Oliver’s segment on content moderation:
I’m still waiting for platforms to silence conservative voices… I keep hearing the stupid shit they are claiming.
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with another comment from MrWilson, in response to jokes about Devin Nunes misspelling his name:
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!
Finally, it’s Arianity with a comment about the Heritage Foundation’s plan to attack Wikipedia editors:
Well, I didn’t have getting negatively polarized into becoming a Wikipedia editor on my bingo card, but here we are.
That’s all for this week, folks!
Comments on “Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt”
We have officially hit March and we have not been silenced yet.
Not that they aren’t trying, of course, and we best ensure they don’t ever succeed (and that includes stopping shortsighted dems from helping them.)
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ICE shouldn’t exist? Really? Is this calling for totally open borders, or do you just want some other agency handling it?
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If ICE still exists, it should be staffed by Native Americans and target the illegal immigrants and their descendants since 1492.
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Think of it this way: Why do rich countries attract people from poor countries?
Is it better to spend a lot of money trying to get a deal with immigrants in your country or trying to combat poverty elsewhere?
You still need to spend money somewhere, and it seems to me that it’s better to spend it on the root cause. This goes for almost any type of government organization that deal with different problems that arise in society. For example if you invest in social security, better education system and healthcare; you’ll get let less crime due to a lot of people not being desperate and feeling like 3rd class citizens without any real future hope.
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People want security more than anything else. They want to feel as safe as possible, to know that they’ll have some way of paying the bills and getting their needs met. When the social safety net that helps people stay afloat breaks and people start going under, those most in danger of drowning will, in their desperation, drag more people under with them.
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You’d have better luck befriending wasps than getting US conservatives to invest in their country and fellow citizens.
The Republicans became the party of selfishness, trolls, and nihilism many years ago. And, if you listen to the videos of them complaining about being now bit by the leopard they unleashed, you hear only about their own face. They still care about no one but themselves.
To me this says once the mauling healed it would be forgotten and they would vote leopard again.
They don’t care about their country.
Only themselves.
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there’s the blood vs crip mentally right on display
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Red and blue states?
Coincidence? There are no coincidences no more.
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i mean there treating the loud minority like it’s the whole party basically doing a blood vs crip mentality
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The MAGA wing of the GOP is the majority of the party. Whether that applies to conservative-leaning voters is a whole other argument, but enough conservative voters believe in the MAGA ideology to make them at least a signficant minority.
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If they are the “loud minority” then the silent majority needs to stop being silent.
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“If somebody struggles to get into a building due to the lack of a ramp, then they should get out of their wheelchair and just walk in.” Are you hearing yourself yet? Why are you blaming the “silent majority” for being silenced by the vocal minority, bigot?
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Like many other enforcement agencies, they shouldn’t exist in the manner in which they do. They should be much, much better.
Beyond that, yes, many people will argue that borders are pretty stupid. The way they currently exist are novel innovations of the past 80 and 150 years or so.
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You fuck nuggets invaded 200 years ago and you make out like you’ve lived there forever.
How are we supposed to take that seriously?
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fine sentiment, but earlier than 1825 surely?
(now waiting for Airplane quote)
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I just want to tell you good luck, we’re all counting on you.
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Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
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I told you not to call me Shirley!
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You realize ICE has only existed since 2003, right? We had perfectly fine borders before then without needing a crazed militia stationed at them to commit human rights violations.
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And there was nothing before? You may want to think on that…
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Yes, ICE was created in 2003 to protect the United States from cross-border crime and illegal immigration that threaten national security and public safety, but its remit has been extended to cover the activities once engaged in by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which it wrongfully replaced.
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If that sounds absurd to you, try actually examining the notion: If walls and checkpoints are necessary for catching criminals, why don’t the regular police set up walls and checkpoints all of over the place? We already have criminals inside the US.
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No, it shouldn’t. Or, if it should, then it should stick to dealing with truly dangerous immigrants and leave the rest the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which should be reinstated.
Brunchlords in the wild
Karl Bode’s brunchlords is catching on. AI gadfly Ed Zitron used it during his guest appearance on Adam Conover’s “Factually” podcast.
in re: Borders
Borders exist for one reason only, and it’s not to catch criminals or keep out unwanted persons. It’s to keep one King’s tax collectors from going into another ‘area’ that actually belonged to another King, and ripping off the serfs and peons of that territory. Even where two democracies exist side by side, without any kind of demarcation tax collectors could just as easily ‘stray’ into places that another country’s leaders would find to be an offensive action, and deserving of more than just a ‘strong note of concern’.
For an example in today’s world, we need only look at the Grifter-in-Chief’s tariffs. ‘Nuff said.
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(At least) Two reasons. Another, one that started taking root after the late 1840s in Europe, is that the state (government) should be downstream of the nation (ethnic groups), and in turn, the governments need land to call their own.
Sure, about 80 years following these revolutions those sentiments curdled into what we now know as fascism, but circa 1848 you had restive ethnicities who were challenging their subordinate statuses among monarchies and empires.