Funniest/Most Insightul Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
from the chit-chat dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Bruce C. with a reply to a comment that attempted to downplay the recent behavior of federal agents:
Even plain clothes officers are required to carry their badge.
If they were undercover officers they shouldn’t be presenting themselves as officers to civilians unless they desire to blow their cover.
In second place, it’s Strawb with another comment about that same incident in Texas:
What is it law enforcement is fond of saying? If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear?
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we’ve got a pair of comments about the arrest of a Wisconsin judge by the FBI. First, it’s That One Guy with thoughts on why she did what she did:
The party of law and order yet again encourages people to break the law
Ah yes, what possible reason could a judge have for not wanting federal agents to use their courtroom as an easy way to score arrests on people that willingly showed up to court, incentivizing those people to instead pull a republican and just start ignoring the law and legal orders…
Next, it’s Tanner Andrews on why it was not strange of her to do so:
Historically, we as a people have decided that we want people to show up for court, whether as witnesses, parties, or otherwise. As a result, we have frequently held that service of process cannot be effected against someone coming or going to court.
What the judge did is, essentially, uphold a couple hundred years of tradition and common law whose justification is still sound today. Sane people may commend her, and magats will of course celebrate the arrest.
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is Stephen T. Stone on our post about Donald Trump’s ChatGPT-like hallucinations:
So what you’re saying is that the lizard people did a shit job of programming Trump. 🙃
In second place, it’s our own Dark Helmet with a reply to a tiresome troll smearing Abrego Garcia:
It’s quite easy to understand how the actual points in the post flew over your head, given you were down on the ground licking Trump’s boots….
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with a comment from The Grumpicorn about Trump and ChatGPT:
So ChatGPT can accurately simulate the output of an intellectually vacant narcissist? This explains why so many tech bros think the software is intelligent.
Finally, it’s That One Guy again, this time with a comment about the capabilities of Dr. Ben Edwards:
Personally the biggest tell for me that he’s not qualified to practice medicine is that RFK Jr. thinks that he is.
That’s all for this week, folks!
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I find in contrast that managing opinions here requires frustratingly little structure.
I’d want to see “seriously conservative” and “seriously progressive” in comparable proportions with regard to political discussions and “not serious” not really relevant. That makes the respective options visible and relatable even to those who would rather pick the other route.
Being able to respect the other’s approaches and reasons for them even if either them or oneself is getting overruled (one of the most common things in a democracy) is important for the society to work with unified forces on a course that, while not necessarily the choice of any given single stakeholder, is taking the concerns of everyone into consideration and advisement.
Not really happening here, and most certainly not happening in overall society.
The warehouses don’t offer sensible representation of the available palette of opinions: each of them basically carries a single item and only posterchild samples of the very worst of the alternatives.
Re:
“Serious” conservatives have hated dark people and queers since at least Nixon. Dogwhistling with “welfare queens” under Reagan. Swift Veterans with their lie campaign and SCOTUS picking W.
“Serious” conservatives have spent like drunken sailors on war, cut taxes for the rich, raised the deficit and debt, and taken away from the American people for half a century.
They’ve scapegoated minorities the whole time. Migrant caravans every election season. DOMA. Fighting against the CRA.
MAGA is what conservatism has left because conservatism already lost all credibility.