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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
from the speak-up dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Thad with a comment about Capital One’s stated reasons for shutting down Trump accounts:
Would be nice to have some disclosure laws so that if a presidential candidate’s had his bank accounts closed for money laundering, we don’t learn about it years later in a lawsuit.
In second place, it’s MrWilson with a reply on that same post to someone claiming Trump was targeted for political reasons:
“for political reasons” = Trump violating his oath of office, multiple laws, the Constitution, human and civil rights, et al.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with an anonymous comment about the Paramount merger:
Given that Oracle laid off around 25,000 employees (of 162,000) last May just to keep inflating the AI hype, I won’t be surprised if Paramount has already planned layoffs to offset the giant debt of the deal.
Next, it’s Commenter #5759 with a comment about Buc-ee’s shying away from their John Oliver challenge and suing a tiny convenience store instead:
I wonder if John Oliver can convince HBO to fund this store’s legal defense.
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is an anonymous comment about the Trump/Capital One dispute:
A Republican: Tell me how I can be like you.
Trump: You have to start an insurrection, and launder money.
Republican: Why launder money?
Trump: See, nobody cares about the insurrection.
In second place, it’s an anonymous comment about requests to post proof of the claim that there are “numerous videos” of people cutting into the reflecting pool:
He can’t. They go to school in Canada.
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we’ve got an exchange about RFK Jr.’s latest embarrassing display. First, it’s Heart of Dawn with an initial reaction:
If only the worms had finished what they started.
Next, it’s WTF over with a reply:
Unfortunately, the worms died of starvation.
That’s all for this week, folks!
Comments on “Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt”
It’s so weird how Trump’s financial dealings have been targeted for political reasons since the 1970s. How did they know?
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I mean clearly Obama used the presidential time-travel/mind control machine that only democrat presidents have access to to get the ball rolling early in an attempt to stop Trump, and that’s why Trump is so obsessed with him.
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Nuoh my god.
Obama is an alt-universe Rick Sanchez.
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Finance is politics, and it’s been like that as long as both concepts have existed. Concerns regarding business dealings and taxes are ubiquitous in every political record, modern or ancient. Jesus was said to have spoken of such things 2000 years ago, as Nanni did 1800 years before that.
“Politics is the activity of settling affairs in an organized society” says Wikipedia. The same is true of “finance”, albeit with some limitation of scope. Only slight limitation: there’s not much in politics that does not touch on finance, and most states and proto-state entities were created precisely to manage limited resources (that is, finances).
The link for that quote doesn’t work. Anyway, the ideas that (some) people have human and civil rights, and that government power should be constrained by a written constitution, were radical political statements that led to the founding of the country we’re talking about. They’re still somewhat radical and never-fully-realized ideals.
“Political” is right, but also inherently the topic of conversation when referencing a political leader.
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The link doesn’t work because the comment was a reply to a hidden comment, so it defaults to the article instead of the specific comment.
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Funny thing: I got tired of not being able to see the replies to flagged comments, especially when clicking through to links to those comments on these types of articles. So I whipped up some custom CSS to unhide those comments:
.comment.flagged > .comment { display: block !important; } .comment.flagged:has(> .comment) > p:not(.screen-reader-text)::after { content: "" !important; display: none !important; }That gets rid of the “replies to this comment are hidden” message and unhides all comments that are replies to a blocked comment without unhiding blocked comments. And having checked on the comment in question, the link goes right to that comment so long as my custom CSS is in play.
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Nice! I was too lazy to dive into the stylesheet. Custom CSS add-ons FTW!
It would be nice if this were an account setting you could choose.
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I agree with that. But until then, it’s nice to have the Stylus extension around for things like this.