Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

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from the speech-in-the-wild dept

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Heart of Dawn with a comment about Disney pulling Jimmy Kimmel’s show:

Conservatives absolutely hate “cancel culture” right up to the point they are the ones doing it.

Hypocrisy is dead to these people.

In second place, it’s Thad with a comment about Trump ordering flags lowered for Charlie Kirk:

Motherfucker wouldn’t even lower flags to half-staff for Jimmy Carter.

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with an anonymous comment about the eulogizing of Charlie Kirk:

The only chilling of speech I see is that people aren’t allowed to make fun of horrible person who died in an unbelievably ironic fashion.

If you truly support free speech, you’ll openly mock the dead asshole.

Next, it’s a comment from teka on our post about the “debate me bro” grift:

When you select the venue and the time and the speakers and the cameramen and the talking point, and when you own the recording and have a team of experts fold, spindle and mutilate it for distribution, you are magically always the winner.

They calm cool and collected collegiate who made good points that you avoided gets clipped out and the well meaning person with a nervous speaking tic and rainbow hair somehow has their umms and wells expanded into a half hour reel with your smarmiest calm cool collected talking debate me points being delivered overtop.

Over on the funny side, our first place winner is MrWilson with a comment about the idea that colleges are “radicalizing” students and the fact that Kirk’s shooter didn’t go to a physical college:

Dinesh D’Souza: “I need a list of all the learning management software and library video platforms he interacted with as an online student! Which student account database system is responsible for this bloodlust?!? How many online quizzes were coded with Marxism?”

In second place, it’s an anonymous comment on one particular line in our post from Tim Cushing about Charlie Kirk:

There some typo here Tim, you’ve put “caring” and Trump in the same sentence.

For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with one last anonymous comment about Kirk:

CK memorial catch-22

I heard they were trying to make plans for a Charlie Kirk memorial to go alongside the MLK Jr, Jefferson, and Lincoln memorials in DC, except unlike those other ones the architects can’t chisel any of his quotes on it without being accused of attacking him.

Finally, it’s an anonymous comment about Michigan’s porn ban bill and its incredibly broad list of prohibitions which includes descriptions of porn:

I must congratulate Michigan Republicans on writing what I believe is the first ever bill that would ban the publication of its own text.

That’s all for this week, folks!