Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
from the speaking-out dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Stephen T. Stone with a comment about ICE and CBP stealing money from citizens at the Minneapolis airport:
Dear Democrats in leadership positions:
There is no reforming or retraining this level of institutional rot. Your centrist asses need to start demanding the abolishment of ICE (and DHS), and you need to start doing it now.
Sincerely, a concerned US citizen
In second place, it’s Strawb with an answer to the question of why the CIA deleted its famous World Factbook resource:
Well, the easy answer is “Because a corrupt government’s worst enemy is a well-informed population”.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with Bloof offering another even broader answer to that question:
If something is useful and a product of government, that’s all the reason republicans need to destroy it.
Next, it’s dfbomb bringing more updates from Minneapolis:
They leave cars running from their victims in the road. We have to find tows and clear it.
They deploy tear gas taking people from parks. We have to clean up and help those hurt.
They harass and stalk schools, taking kids with impunity. They approach our school patrols pretending to be locals to get info.
They kill and are protected.
They do not care if the people they take are actually what they’re told to look for, they just take brown people and those that piss them off.
They took Native-Americans and have not returned them.
This is ethnic cleansing and it is done at the behest of a white supremacist administration hunting brown people.
This has not stopped. There is no draw down.
Please stop arguing over the KIND of fascism this is and start rattling cages in DC to abolish this bullshit.
This is not a fucking drill.
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is terribly tired with a comment about a line in one of the federal rulings calling out the administration’s immigration bullshit:
Holy old fuck, she pounds X is a wild-ass sentence to be reading in the real god damn world.
Couldn’t have made it sound more like an addictive substance if I tried.
In second place, it’s dfbomb again, this time with a comment on our post about news websites bringing back comment sections:
Is there irony in the urge for me to shitpost in the comments on this one?
Things are still pretty slow on the funny side (for reasons that continue to be obvious), so we’ll stick to just one editor’s choice — a very simple answer to the question of why the CIA shut down the Factbook, this time from an anonymous commenter:
Oh, that’s easy. They shut it down because it has facts in it.
That’s all for this week, folks!
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On election day, to add 2 more selections.
For each candidate. Select None of the Above.
For Federal. Vote of no confidence.
1 more Law to add. That WE the people get the last vote. As we are the ones that have to live by it, and LAws are for those willing to Live by it.
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What exactly happens if none of the above or no confidence wins ?
If you repeat the election, which candidates get to stand for round 2 ?
Consider how voters will respond to that when it happens.
Re: Re: Ask Canada
About No confidence. Shuts things Down and Forces the Gov to FIX what they messed up.
And the None of the above? Means FIND SOMEONE ELSE. Those 1-5 to select from Cant/Shouldnt be allowed to do the job.
And frankly they’re not big fans of books, either.
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Or the world.
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“And frankly they’re not big fans of books, either.”
To be fair, there is one book of fairy tales they are fanatical about…
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Well, books in the plural sense. There’s one book they like…though I’m not sure they’ve read all of that one.
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Well, a collection of about 70 books. Some don’t amount to much more than a boring genealogical record; others forbid the things the people in power love to do most. Honestly, the whole thing’s a bit of a mess: incoherent due to multiple authorship with poor volume editing, and with some characters so overpowered that even Marvel would reject them. One would be better off reading the back-catalog of the X-Men.
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I’d probably learn more about being a decent human being from X-Men comics alone than I would from the Bible.
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The X-Men are all about accepting people’s differences, whereas the villians are defined by considering themselves superior to others and not wanting to mix with them.
Of course, Jesus was just like the X-Men in that regard (and water-to-wine is the kind of weirdly specific superpower Stan Lee might come up with—sounds useless, but everything’s got water in it, right?). However, the non-Jesus parts of the bible really muddle the message, with the lifestyle-nosiness and smiting and whatnot. Odd how some people use the term “Christian” to justify obeying the parts of the bible in which Christ does not appear.
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Then you have Magneto, who has wholly justifiable reasons to hate humans who are bigoted towards the mutant minority. Whether you agree with his tactics is another matter.
I’d like to think that’s part of the reason for the existence of the Jefferson Bible (which trims the Bible down to the life of Jesus Christ and cuts out pretty much all the supernatural stuff).
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But Magneto also hates the non-mutants who aren’t bigoted. Classifying others into a different race or species, then hating the whole (usually invented) group for the actions of some, is a classic tactic of bigots. They probably all have justifications in their minds.
The back-story of how Magneto became a villian is interesting (especially compared to shallow television and film villians who are just “evil” for no identifable reason), as is the relationship with Professor X. Nevertheless, there’s not much ambiguity about who’s on the side of good.
The Jefferson Bible seems like an okay idea. One shouldn’t really need ancient texts (or comics) to back up the idea of being decent to others, but I guess if it works, I’ll take it. Too bad it never caught on.
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Magneto is a complex and beloved character because he’s fighting for the rights and lives of the mutant minority even though his version of the fight would most often end with the human majority eradicated or subjugated. (And that’s when he’s opposing the X-Men instead of joining their cause.) His backstory humanizes him into being something other than a megalomaniacal moustache-twirling “I’m evil for the sake of it” villain. Even when he wants to eradicate humanity, you still understand why he feels that way…and maybe even empathize with him despite (or even because of) his ultimate goal. I mean, “Magneto Was Right” is a meme with largely positive connotations for a reason.
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Magneto, after being oppressed by Nazis, basically becomes one. It’s classic dramatic irony, and of course the character is oblivious
YEA,
From the best of the week?
Into the Fun of comics.
But where are our Comics and Porn mags, NOW?
Hell of a lot of reading there. All gone away?