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  • On the post: Appeals Court Tosses Lawsuit Brought Against Tennessee’s Anti-Drag Show Law

    bhull242 ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2024 @ 02:56pm

    Personal disgust and being worthy of being scorned are not good reasons to outlaw something, nor have you ever given any real reason (not even good, just an actual reason beyond “I don’t like this”) why it’s evil or worthy of scorn.

  • On the post: Appeals Court Tosses Lawsuit Brought Against Tennessee’s Anti-Drag Show Law

    bhull242 ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2024 @ 02:52pm

    That a few people with no asserted or obvious expertise on the matter call it Marxist doesn’t make it Marxist, let alone communist (which is not the same thing as Marxism). Notably, the intro asserts that the idea it posits is both obvious and well-known, something which is only true for the minority of people who already agree with them. There’s also a lot of faulty logic. For example:

    Transgender culture has increasingly appeared as a mass culture. As such, we might expect to see a dwindling of trans politics as a subversive force.
    This is an unjustified assumption. In particular, that is only even plausible if they are not also targeted by politicians in office, something which is demonstrably untrue. It then goes on to say:
    Whether the struggle is liberation from prisons and policing, poverty and austerity, combating fascist street movements, or averting ecological collapse, trans people are found in disproportionate numbers, and full voice.
    In other words, a minority that has been increasingly targeted by Republicans is particularly vocal about political issues and tends to lean Democrat in terms of political views. How is that in any way unusual? And it just shoves in the terms “communism” and “Marxism” without any justification whatsoever, and it uses loaded terms like “subversive” to refer to things that aren’t actually subversive but merely not far-right, like “combating fascist street movements” or “averting ecological collapse”. How are those subversive at all? “Subversive” doesn’t mean “things I don’t agree with”. Basically, why should I bother reading past the intro? Why can’t you present any arguments that would support the claim that there is actually anything communist about transgender people?

  • On the post: Musk’s DSA Debacle: From ‘Exactly Aligned’ To Accused Of Violations

    bhull242 ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2024 @ 07:35am

    No, it just has nothing to do with the issue. Are you seriously this bad at basic reading comprehension and context?

  • On the post: Musk’s DSA Debacle: From ‘Exactly Aligned’ To Accused Of Violations

    bhull242 ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2024 @ 07:32am

    Are you incapable of reading an entire sentence? It then goes on to explain the difference between “censor” and “censure”.

  • On the post: 7 Years And A Supreme Court Visit Later, Court (Again) Rules Cop Can’t Sue Activist Over Violent Acts Committed By Others

    bhull242 ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2024 @ 10:06pm

    I think you missed the joke entirely.

  • On the post: No Immunity For Cops Who Handcuffed A 10-Year-Old Girl Because She Drew Some ‘Violent’ Pictures

    bhull242 ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2024 @ 09:59pm

    They did. It’s in the article. Did you not read it?

  • On the post: Just A Reminder: Authoritarians Don’t ACTUALLY Support ‘Antitrust Reform’

    bhull242 ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2024 @ 09:53pm

    Uh, yes, they did. The guy who targeted Trump was a Republican.

  • On the post: What Thin Blue Line? Former Officer Paid $1 Million After Cops Shared Her Private Photos With Other Cops

    bhull242 ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2024 @ 09:43pm

    Isn’t Thug culture.

  • On the post: When Will Jim Jordan Hold A Hearing About Elon’s ExTwitter Bias?

    bhull242 ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2024 @ 05:56pm

    You are aware that Wall Street is why they’re going for that racket, right?

  • On the post: When Will Jim Jordan Hold A Hearing About Elon’s ExTwitter Bias?

    bhull242 ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2024 @ 05:54pm

    Mike has said that Silicon Valley has good people in it.
    It does. Just because you don’t like most of the major figures in charge of the big companies from there doesn’t mean that no one in Silicon Valley is a good person.
    Leaping to the defense of Facebook and claiming the company was not “willfully malicious” years back was particularly hilarious to me.
    Still haven’t seen any evidence that Facebook was being willfully malicious then rather than incompetent, so I don’t know why it would be.
    It has been clear to many people living outside of California and the Silicon Valley Bubble that the companies are rife woth profit-hungry facsists who actually don’t care.
    Which doesn’t prove either willfully malicious intent, leftwing bias in social media moderation, or that there aren’t good people in Silicon Valley, so this is irrelevant. And if you think that Californians don’t complain about the billionaires who run social media companies for being profit-hungry or not caring, you clearly haven’t spoken to anyone from California. Or the people who work in Silicon Valley, for that matter.
    Everyone in Silicon Valley lining up behind Trump and Project 2025 isn’t of the belief that it’ll help the tech industry.
    The worst of them tend to think of themselves as the tech industry, so helping the tech industry would be no different from helping them from their perspective.
    They want to believe that doting on him will give them positions of power and safety and even more profit under a Trump regime and know that his plans will get many people killed.
    “Wanting to believe” and “actually believing” are two very different things. It’s also a vain hope unlikely to work out for them.

  • On the post: When Will Jim Jordan Hold A Hearing About Elon’s ExTwitter Bias?

    bhull242 ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2024 @ 05:42pm

    Are lefties being prevented from using X?
    Yep.
    Zuckerburg wasn’t questioned because he endorsed Biden…
    He was, actually. They questioned him on whether that endorsement affected moderation on Facebook. Were you paying attention?

  • On the post: When Will Jim Jordan Hold A Hearing About Elon’s ExTwitter Bias?

    bhull242 ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2024 @ 05:39pm

    Even assuming they take a pro-trans stance, the facts don’t actually disprove gender identity or anything (and actually tend to support it), so that doesn’t help your case.

  • On the post: When Will Jim Jordan Hold A Hearing About Elon’s ExTwitter Bias?

    bhull242 ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2024 @ 05:37pm

    The article claims that none of this left wing bias was true at all Social media sites when it comes to moderation.
    Because that’s what the evidence suggested.
    It’s absolutely true though. How do you explain things like the Hunter Biden laptop?
    One questionable or incorrect moderation decision made by one company without something to compare it to is not evidence of bias. And it was pursuant to a policy that was enforced on both sides of the political divide.
    New York Post had their account locked until the election was over and anyone that tried to share the story wasn’t able to.
    False. The account suspension and post removal were rescinded the day after the ban was put in place. The story was shared numerous times on Twitter prior to Election Day.
    Maybe Democrats don’t think it’s real because it doesn’t happen to them, I don’t know.
    It does happen to them, which is a significant reason why people say there isn’t left-wing bias on social media at large. But, really, the issue is simply that the plural of anecdotes is not data. There is no evidence that rightwingers have been moderated against disproportionately often compared to leftwingers given similar conduct, and thus no evidence that their moderation decisions are generally biased against rightwing people or ideas. That some rightwingers were moderated against—even if it was unjustly done or incorrectly targeted—is insufficient evidence of bias against them.
    Also, on Reddit I get banned from subreddits for simply stating facts that go against the lefts narrative.
    Each subreddit has independent moderators with no association with Reddit as a company beyond what pretty much every redditor has. Some of those subreddits may very well have moderators with a leftwing bias; others have moderators with a rightwing bias. What isn’t the case is that moderation on Reddit as a whole has a leftwing bias. Individual subreddits are incomparable to entire social media sites. This is, of course, all assuming that your claim is true and as you characterize it. Without any details given, I cannot opine either way on whether that assumption is accurate, but it’s moot because it doesn’t support the assertion.
    It happens on Lemmy as well.
    I’ve never even heard of Lemmy, and it never gets mentioned in conversations about social media moderating with a leftwing bias, so I literally don’t care.
    I’m not on facebook, instagram, or X so I can’t say whether they still do it or not.
    They never did, and those are three of the main platforms mentioned in these conversations, so this admission of yours kinda shows that you’re just talking out of your ass on this subject.
    And Elon Musk supporting Trump for President? So what…We never cared who the owners of Facebook, Twitter, etc. supported for President.
    Correction: You didn’t care. Many of the people arguing over this sort of thing did. Also, this is hardly the only evidence of rightwing bias on ExTwitter, and Elon Musk has demonstrated unprecedented power and willingness to be directly involved in moderating decisions compared to other (past and present) social media owners, so that would be why it would matter here but not there.
    We did care that agencies like the FBI were pulling the strings at these companies to censor certain stories like the laptop, covid origins, etc.
    I.e. Something else that has never happened.

  • On the post: Phoenix PD, Union Already Complaining About DOJ Consent Decree That Hasn’t Even Been Served Yet

    bhull242 ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2024 @ 12:24pm

    Federal oversight could tank officer retention in the Phoenix Police Department, according to a survey released Wednesday. The Phoenix Law Enforcement Association’s survey of 1,186 Phoenix Police officers found that 56% were considering leaving in the next three to six months.
    I’m not the type of person who normally says stuff like, “Boo frickin' hoo,” or, “Good riddance!”, but I don’t think there’s a more appropriate time to say such things (at least when involving someone threatening to leave). Like, if you can’t handle following the law even to a minimal extent, you shouldn’t be in charge of enforcing the law in the first place.

  • On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

    bhull242 ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2024 @ 07:56pm

    Which has nothing to do with anything. When a company pledges to offer internet to certain locales and refuses to upgrade the services there, they are obligated to maintain that service.

  • On the post: Tim Wu Is Out Of Control

    bhull242 ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2024 @ 07:52pm

    I don’t recall anything of the sort having ever been claimed. Nor is there any reason why they should leave right now.

  • On the post: Tim Wu Is Out Of Control

    bhull242 ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2024 @ 07:48pm

    No, that’s Trump you’re thinking of.

  • On the post: Tim Wu Is Out Of Control

    bhull242 ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2024 @ 07:33pm

    If the First Amendment brought us to this current period of the King President that started on Jul 1, this last Monday, […]
    It hasn’t, so that’s irrelevant.

  • On the post: GOP Really Committed To The Bit That Speech They Don’t Like Is Censorship

    bhull242 ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2024 @ 06:52pm

    He was falsely convicted for labeling a payment to his lawyer a legal expense.
    No, it was labeling it as a business expense. Not to mention it was a reimbursement for paying off a porn star, which would not be a legal expense.

  • On the post: GOP Really Committed To The Bit That Speech They Don’t Like Is Censorship

    bhull242 ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2024 @ 06:49pm

    I’d disagree with that. Everyone I’ve spoken to would just like the truth no matter what it is.
    You know that meme where the wife/gf asks for the truth about how they always look, then get mad when they are given an honest response? Setting aside how accurate that depiction is for women in general, that’s kinda the same thing here. People will often say they value the truth, but everything else they say or do suggests otherwise.

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