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  • On the post: The Real ‘Gulf Of America’ Is Between The News Outlets That Cover This Administration

    bhull242 ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2025 @ 01:45pm

    Nobody in the government is stopping AP from using whatever geographic labels they choose.
    When the government restricts their access to information based on the geographical labels they choose, it’s a 1A issue.
    A little pushback on AP WhiteHouse access privileges is perfectly legal.
    Not if it’s done in retaliation over their protected expression.
    AP is also notorious for politically biased language in its news reporting.
    Honest question: is any news source not notorious for politically biased language in their news reporting in your eyes? Because AP doesn’t seem to have such bias most of the time, at least not in any particular direction. At any rate, being politically biased is also protected and so isn’t a valid reason to restrict access privileges, either.

  • On the post: The Real ‘Gulf Of America’ Is Between The News Outlets That Cover This Administration

    bhull242 ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2025 @ 01:40pm

    Why is it that Democrats always claim that everything is about race?
    We don’t. Sometimes it’s about sex, sometimes it’s about gender, sometimes it’s about “owning the libs”, sometimes it’s about money, etc.
    Even our roads are racist, […]
    When you name the roads after people who fought to preserve slavery, then yeah, the roads are kinda racist. That’s not as ridiculous as you think it sounds.
    […] climate change is racist, […]
    Haven’t heard that one.
    Most of us find that really strange, […]
    Because you can’t be bothered to figure out why.

  • On the post: GOP Is Quietly Freaking Out About Elon; Time For Them To Take A Stand

    bhull242 ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2025 @ 01:32pm

    They LOVE the government corruption.
    Hence why they voted for Trump.

  • On the post: Appeals Court Says Town Can’t Forbid Cops From Flying The ‘Thin Blue Line’ Flag

    bhull242 ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2025 @ 12:41pm

    Given the other misspellings, I’m pretty sure that was intentional. It was actually the least egregious one: “While I was going to post a comment in the same vain, I would have been less hearse. I agree that spalling is important. Having an auditor rede the work before publishing is a good way to avoid errors caused by relying on spill-checking.” vs “While I was going to post a comment in the same vein, I would have been less harsh. I agree that spelling is important. Having an editor read the work before publishing is a good way to avoid errors caused by relying on spell-checking.”

  • On the post: Appeals Court Says Town Can’t Forbid Cops From Flying The ‘Thin Blue Line’ Flag

    bhull242 ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2025 @ 12:33pm

    They’re not making the same split-second decisions officers do, […]
    They kinda are. They, too, have to make split-second life-or-death decisions. If anything, they have to do so more because most situations you call them for are emergencies where every second counts, with them not doing much outside of answering those calls. Police spend a lot of time doing non-emergency stuff that doesn’t involve making split-second decisions most of the time.

  • On the post: No, The People Didn’t Vote For This

    bhull242 ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2025 @ 12:28pm

    Pot, meet kettle

  • On the post: The Trump Administration Just Sued IL, Chicago Over State Laws Around Immigration Enforcement

    bhull242 ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2025 @ 12:25pm

    During the campaign season I don’t see Techdirt advocating for voting Harris […]
    Only because you weren’t paying attention.

  • On the post: The Trump Administration Just Sued IL, Chicago Over State Laws Around Immigration Enforcement

    bhull242 ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2025 @ 12:23pm

    gay race-communists
    What does that even mean?

  • On the post: Some Follow Up Questions For Elon Musk, After He Admits He Gets Stuff Wrong Sometimes

    bhull242 ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2025 @ 04:29pm

    The USAID spending tens of millions of U.S. Taxpayer dollars on condoms to Gaza Strip is true.
    No, it isn’t. The funds in question weren’t going to the Gaza Strip, and they weren’t being used for condoms.
    The funds were just miscoded as “other” in the dataset that was being analyzed.
    And, upon un-miscoding them, it was discovered that they don’t support the claim.
    What’s really crazy is the author’s utter obsession with hating on Mr. Musk (MDS).
    Not really. The guy’s a fascist moron with a lot of power.
    And the author still hasn’t revealed how much funding, either directly or indirectly, he received from USAID.
    Who cares? But, most likely, the funding is $0, as it is for most Americans who don’t receive Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security.

  • On the post: Some Follow Up Questions For Elon Musk, After He Admits He Gets Stuff Wrong Sometimes

    bhull242 ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2025 @ 04:20pm

    Why do you think “angry” is an argument?
    Who said it was? Stephen was just pointing out that you seem addicted to writing substanceless comments on sites that anger you, and that’s not healthy behavior.

  • On the post: Some Follow Up Questions For Elon Musk, After He Admits He Gets Stuff Wrong Sometimes

    bhull242 ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2025 @ 04:16pm

    It doesn’t matter which country received the condoms. Or how much they received. It’s still too much, it’s likely an ineffective and wasteful expenditure, and we would be better off spending the money here in the United States.
    Again, no country received condoms. $0 was spent on sending condoms anywhere.
    Additionally, there’s a fixation on this one story, because the accounting for it was wrong,
    It wasn’t just the accounting that was wrong; there was no truth to it.
    and yet the billions of other dollars that ARE wasteful shall not be mentioned.
    Unless and until Trump and Musk show any indication that they are going to be able to distinguish between wasteful spending and nonexistent spending, I have zero faith that they will be able to cut wasteful spending without cutting too much useful spending.
    Musk may not be correct 100% of the time, but 99.5% correct is still far superior than what the career bureaucrats were doing.
    Thus far, he hasn’t even reached a 50% accuracy.

  • On the post: At Last, DOGE And Musk Are Finally Named In A Lawsuit, Albeit “Officially”

    bhull242 ( profile ), 13 Feb, 2025 @ 03:55pm

    Notably, this has precisely zero relevance to the article in question.

  • On the post: Musk Shows Us What Actual Government Censorship On Social Media Looks Like

    bhull242 ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2025 @ 04:43pm

    Why are you telling yourself to leave?

  • On the post: Musk Shows Us What Actual Government Censorship On Social Media Looks Like

    bhull242 ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2025 @ 04:40pm

    There is nothing in the Constitution that would prohibit Musk from being hired as a government employee. He can’t be President or Vice President, but he can still be a government employee.

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

    bhull242 ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2025 @ 04:16pm

    This is off-topic. They weren’t even accusing Trump of doing anything here, nor was this about pardons. That’s setting aside that Trump is no better on this front and that there has never been a Biden crime family.

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

    bhull242 ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2025 @ 04:13pm

    CBP One app already shut down […]
    Most people don’t even know what that is.
    […] and all those dirty fake asylum seekers can Remain in Mexico […]
    Not according to Mexico, since most of them do not come from Mexico (even the ones who come through Mexico), so they can’t remain in Mexico, either. Not to mention that you’re just assuming they’re all fake.
    […] while millions here are rounded-up and detained then deported.
    That was happening under Biden already.

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

    bhull242 ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2025 @ 04:08pm

    Wow, can’t believe that Biden ruined his legacy by pre-emptively pardoning his family members […]
    Where have you been? That is old news, and it has no relevance to anything mentioned on this site at all. That said, I don’t believe it ruined his legacy. Pretty much everyone who thinks it would had a low opinion of him to begin with, so there’s no legacy there to ruin.
    […] and known geocidal criminals like Fauci!
    Fauci isn’t a “known ge[n]ocidal criminal[]”. At the absolute worst, he was an accomplice to negligent criminals, but far more likely is that he was not intentionally aiding or abetting criminal behavior, and I’m not convinced there was genocidal criminal behavior. Even if you believe him to be a genocidal criminal, that is an opinion, not something known to be factually true.

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

    bhull242 ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2025 @ 03:55pm

    Very cruel of you to deny my lived truth and silence my wail.
    It’s not a “lived truth” if it’s a statement about the future, and no one’s silencing you.

  • On the post: NY Post: Fact Checking Is Now Censorship

    bhull242 ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2025 @ 11:38pm

    No one claimed fact checkers themselves were censoring. No one.
    The NYP literally did, as is Matthew Bennett here.
    The ‘fact checkers’ were often not actually fact checkers. They would find an article online that disagreed with the statement and point to that.
    That doesn’t make them not fact checkers.
    That didnt mean the article they pointed to was actually true, but they would claim it was.
    Even granting this, being incompetent at fact-checking doesn’t mean that they aren’t fact-checkers.
    For example, the ‘science’ behind masks, 6ft rule, etc. At this point even Fauci has admitted they made it all up.
    False. Some of the policy recommendations were “figure things out as we go” (which is not the same as making them all up), but the science was largely established long beforehand.
    But the fact checkers are never held accountable for their ‘mistakes’.
    You haven’t even pointed to an actual mistake. More importantly, you’re holding them accountable the only way they should be right now: more speech.
    The mainstream media and politicians are never silenced like regular people when they post things that werent true.
    That’s on the platforms. The fact-checkers checked their posts as well, so that’s an entirely separate issue.
    You were only silenced if you disagreed with the establishment.
    Plenty of disagreement wasn’t silenced. And you weren’t even silenced.
    And it was often done at the behest of the government. The twitter files and Zuckerberg confirmed this.
    As has been pointed out multiple times on this site, this is entirely false.
    Remember the ‘fact checking’ that Hunter Bidens laptop was disinfo? Even though Hunter never denied it.
    He did, though. He just didn’t deny that some of the content came from his cloud account. He did deny most of the rest, though. And it was never that the laptop was disinformation. It’s that it was really sketchy.
    Those 50 ex spies saying it was despite never seeing any evidence at all?
    No, I honestly don’t remember such a claim having ever been made.
    Remember the pee tape?
    You are aware that most people who mention that didn’t generally believe that there was ever an actual pee tape and were just joking, right? You’re taking that way too seriously there.
    Jesus, how much do these people need to lie to you for you to stop taking them at their word?
    Let me know when you can point to an actual lie that was taken seriously, rather than something that became just a joke, something which was a mistaken conclusion, or something which is not even really false. Like, I’m sure there are lies. You’re just really bad at picking out examples. And this isn’t about believing them. This is about the 1A issues with the government getting involved in it and whether it is censorship as the article claims it to be.

  • On the post: NY Post: Fact Checking Is Now Censorship

    bhull242 ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2025 @ 11:20pm

    Good for you, I guess.

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