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• On the post: Trump Surrenders To Iran On Virtually Every Point

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2026 @ 11:53am

  I think you write enough articles that boil down “I hate Trump and Elon Musk” already, brosef.

  That's what you read into them because you don't do nuance and you can't read more than a few paragraphs. You frequently claim to not read all the text, so why do you think you know what they mean? Oh right, gut feelings and dunning-kruger.

  Which is it? You don’t even read these things before you hit send, do you?

  You don't even thing about these things before you type them. A deal can be considered a negotiation where both parties give something up to a achieve a shared goal. This surrender agreement MOU doesn't require much in the way of a sacrifice from Iran. Trump is capitulating in the surrender agreement. So often when you think you have a clever point, you're just pointing out that you don't understand what you're talking about.

  I’m not all that fond of this deal, I think Trump should’ve just blockaded them until the riots started,

  How are your gas prices, buddy? You think conservatives are going to do well in the midterms with $6 a gallon? We bombed them and killed some of their leaders and there wasn't an uprising. Why do you think blockading them would have worked? Their drones were leaving their airspace to hit nearby targets. How many other nations' infrastructure are you willing to sacrifice and what moral authority do you assert to sacrifice them? Trump could have let Obama's agreement stand and just not done anything and he'd be in a better position. Your boy done fucked up and you're upset he didn't fuck up more with an even worse strategy. Sgt Bilko here is a military genius.

  but all of their military and industry is rubble and the top 10 levels of their government are dead

  So they weren't controlling the strait and everything was fine? Then why did Trump need to end anything? It's like you think Trump tells the truth or something! You keep using the r-word when you're the biggest sucker, and worse for you, you keep showing it off while pretending everyone else is stupid.

• On the post: CBS Signs Licensing Deal With ‘Peanuts’ People To Duck Legal Issues From Colbert’s Last Show

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2026 @ 11:31am

  Listening to RIAA rhetoric back in the day, you know they daydreamed about it. The IT Crowd did a great parody for movie downloading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg

• On the post: Internet Age-Gates Are A Growing Global Threat

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2026 @ 10:23pm

  The whole "parents rights" movement is a variation on the "states rights" argument. Right to what...? Right to indoctrinate your kids? To abuse them without intervention? To punish them for being individuals rather than clones who adopt your personal ideologies?

• On the post: CBS Signs Licensing Deal With ‘Peanuts’ People To Duck Legal Issues From Colbert’s Last Show

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2026 @ 07:42pm

  Live by the copyright, shell out for the copyright.

• On the post: RFK Jr. Insists Scientific Journal Explain Retraction Of Anti-Vaxx Article He Liked

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2026 @ 05:48pm

  I'll take your point as soon as you agree to follow all of Junior's crazy health advice and conspiracy theories and document for us how your health is doing as a result. Start with snorting cocaine off a toilet seat, then swim in a sewage river before heading to a measles party so you can grow stronger immunity.

• On the post: Surveillance Is Good Because I Want Drivers I Don’t Like To Be Punished: Cleveland Columnist

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2026 @ 02:56pm

  They’re always around, even when a cop isn’t. And they give me some assurance that people who think laws are for others will get what’s coming to them. And those, like me and my friend, who think that scofflaws are increasing exponentially, can cling to the hope that the number will come down if people know or suspect they’re on camera.

  Everyone breaks the law. There are so many laws that you don't know which ones you're breaking. You went one mile over the speed limit back there. You didn't stop at the stop sign long enough. You brought an invasive species into the state on your shoe. If we put cameras on everyone 24/7, we'd all be fined out of our livelihoods and spend the rest of our lives in jail. Privileged self-righteous assholes like this are so hypocritical it's not funny. He literally thinks laws are for others. He sounds like a guy with enough money to get out of legal issues and has never had a disturbing encounter with a cop despite doing nothing wrong.

• On the post: Internet Age-Gates Are A Growing Global Threat

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2026 @ 12:08pm

  It depends on what you consider to be "social media." Every platform with interactivity can become "social media" if given a large enough user base. If we're just talking about algorithm-heavy scrolling and sharing sites, you'll still catch non-social media focused sites in that net. STEAM communities, video game chat features, Wikipedia discussion pages, etc. are ripe for social interaction that isn't considered traditional social media. Kids will find a resource if you push them out of dominant social media platforms. Cory Doctorow used this concept in Little Brother and For the Win. And kids banned from their phones have used the tablet built into their family's smart fridge. And on the other side of it, social media is often how people find things on the internet they otherwise would not have been exposed to (for good or for bad). Social media is where kids get political perspectives they won't hear at home. It could be gamergate and 4chan or it can be ICE protests and universal basic income discussions. I was social on the internet from the beginning of my experience with it, prior to "social media." You could chat with people on BBSs and that could be toxic. It was just fewer people and owners/administrators had fewer users to regulate and it was easier to ban people. Compuserve and AOL and Prodigy had chat forums. LiveJournal preceded MySpace. The confluence of Facebook and smart phones just got so many more people online and into social media such that it was more profitable to manipulate what they see. Advertising on a platform with fifty regular users united by their interest in trains didn't make sense unless you sold train stuff. But back to my original point. Legislators would have to regulate internet access to prevent "social media" access, unless they're just happy with the illusion that social media just means Facebook and similar platforms. And they've already proposed stuff like age-gating at the OS level in California.

• On the post: Fox News Viewership Increases Belief In False Conspiracy Theories About Immigration

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2026 @ 11:18am

  The Trump administration would weaponize this sentiment the same way they've by policy turned DEI into a codeword for "illegal discrimination against white people." When Trump gets to determine which "conspiracy theories" are false, then he'll start rounding up people telling the truth like how he lost in 2020 or that he committed rape. Why do you want Trump to have yet another weapon against the truth?

• On the post: Fox News Viewership Increases Belief In False Conspiracy Theories About Immigration

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2026 @ 11:15am

  countries with more regulated speech have empirically higher freedom indexes?

  Correlation is not causation. Speech regulation isn't the only factor that plays into the freedom index. The US has lower freedom because it has corrupt legislators and courts that serve the interests of capitalist billionaires instead of the citizens. If the US had greater speech regulation, it would only be implemented in a way that serves the interests of the capitalist billionaires, not the citizens, so it wouldn't lead to a greater freedom index score.

• On the post: Fox News Viewership Increases Belief In False Conspiracy Theories About Immigration

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2026 @ 11:08am

  You're so fucking close to self-awareness, but you seem to startle yourself and chug another pint of the flavor-aid to avoid the cognitive dissonance.

• On the post: Trump Surrenders To Iran On Virtually Every Point

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2026 @ 11:01am

  This is a completely unnecessary take. It's entirely possible to be happy some of the bullshit is over without giving credit to the asshole who caused it. You don't thank the guy who intentionally shat on the floor for taking a dirty rag and smearing it around while pretending he's cleaning it up. He already did double down multiple times. It's like saying he gets credit for not punching his wife the 50th time after he punched her 49 times before. He's not trying to end the war. He's trying to get out of a mess he created. And he's leaving a bigger mess than when he started. Anyone who thinks Iran was a problem before should recognize that they'll be enriched and emboldened by this. Trump has done more good for the Iranian regime than he has for the US at this point. "Trying to turn the page" here just means he's going to move on to another fuck up. He's going to go back to fucking over our European allies or bullying someone else. He got humiliated trying to bully Iran, so he'll pick an easier target to shore up his ego and pretend he's still big and smart and powerful. Absolutely no credit should go to the man who is responsible for all the fuck ups. He's too old, arrogant, and stupid to learn from his mistakes. And we're going to pay the cost.

• On the post: Trump Surrenders To Iran On Virtually Every Point

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2026 @ 10:51am

  Time to pull out the dusty equipment and go excavating for the historical records of comments from a few weeks ago when we were being told that Trump was just ending the 47 year war that Iran started and he's going to stop them from getting nuclear weapons and he's going to end their military dominance and he's going to topple their government and foment a revolution and he's going to open the strait. Literally every step was a misstep here. Even killing leaders ended up making Iran stronger. Military strikes? He committed war crimes and murdered children and literally said it is now too long ago to talk about. Time for the propagandists and sycophants to get in on the ground floor of the new bullshit myth spinning.

• On the post: Internet Age-Gates Are A Growing Global Threat

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2026 @ 05:25pm

  One of the biggest benefits of the internet is the ability to talk to people outside your personal sphere. It's similar to the exposure to diversity that a lot of people get when they leave home for college. You can see how a bunch of conservatives who are dismayed by their inability to control what the youth access and talk about would want to lock them out so they can be limited to the indoctrination of their immediate vicinity. Internet access helps LGBTQ kids when their parents are unsupportive hateful bigots. Internet access helps kids on the spectrum find other people who share their interests and won't think they're weird. Internet access helps kids who are being abused finds strategies to report and escape from those situations.

• On the post: The SpaceX IPO Sends Elon Musk And Trump’s Starlink Cronyism Into The Thermosphere

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2026 @ 11:15pm

  Hey remember when you guys pretended a wave was a nazi salute,

  First, "you guys" who? You're conflating again. Liberals? Leftists? Democrats? Soy-powered antifa super-soldiers? People who have studied more than five seconds of WWII history?

  and then like 2 years later you nominated a literal fuucking nazi for senate like it was no big deal?

  You still won't cite any single fascist stance that Platner has taken. I don't like him and I'd vote for someone else in the primary if I lived in the state. Again, you're applying identity politics as a stand-in for researching any facts whatsoever. But the whataboutism is tired. Platner might lose the race and disappear. Musk will still have functionally murdered millions of people from his unconstitutional bullride through the china shop of the US government. You keep using moral relativism and pretending there are only two sides, so if one side does something bad, the other is morally fine to do something bad. Nazis are bad, mmkay. Cutting funding to cancer research, parasite prevention, vaccine research, et cetera is also bad. You are bad...at logic, providing citations, and being the least bit of a decent human being.

• On the post: The UK’s Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2026 @ 07:30pm

  He's like a combination of a teenager who thinks he's clever in his daydream fantasies, a tech-ignorant Hollywood screenwriter liberally sprinkling hacker lingo into his script, and a sovereign citizen who pretends he knows all the legal secrets.

• On the post: Fox News Viewership Increases Belief In False Conspiracy Theories About Immigration

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2026 @ 07:27pm

  how much of it is causally changing people’s beliefs, rather than just people choosing to watch something like Fox to reaffirm their existing beliefs.

  It's likely both. They get into a positive feedback loop where they hear stuff that affirms their beliefs, so they keep listening and start thinking more about shit they're fed that they never thought of before, including entire mythologies about fake conspiracies and being told that everyone else is evil, and those newer beliefs are reaffirmed consistently. Once they're stuck in it, they reject anything that doesn't jibe with their half-remembered, never-cited gut feeling bullshit.

• On the post: Judge Says Trump’s Attempt To Rewrite History At National Parks Is Illegal

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2026 @ 12:24pm

  Mr. TLDR is suddenly the Techdirt archivist who has read every article...

• On the post: The SpaceX IPO Sends Elon Musk And Trump’s Starlink Cronyism Into The Thermosphere

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 16 Jun, 2026 @ 12:20pm

  “Oh, look, this very successful guy amd the first trillionaire is actually really dumb and all those investors are idiots, actually. Oh and he’s racist to!”

  Point out the lie. You can be successful in a corrupt system while still being hateful and stupid. Success doesn't depend on intelligence. It depends on ruthlessness and collaboration with other corrupt individuals and systems, which isn't the same thing as being smart. Every random tech bro seems to think he found the cheat codes to success and innovation by just ignoring the human costs or ethical constraints of their strategies. And note that Musk is only the first trillionaire via valuation based on a very stupid IPO propped up by bullshit and government subsidies. Or maybe just read the article again?

• On the post: Flock Is The New Tool Of Choice For Cops Who Love Stalking Their Exes

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 15 Jun, 2026 @ 04:56pm

  You don't have to hack a database. Just do Jedi mind tricks on an employee with access. Or time travel into the past and stop the stalker's parents from meeting. Or leap dimensions to one where your daydream adventures come true.

• On the post: California’s AB 412 Still Demands AI Developers Do The Impossible

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2026 @ 09:33pm

  They claim they're not using LLMs for diagnoses or treatment plans yet, but my health care provider uses Abridge for documentation (which can affect care determinations) which is based on an Nvidia Nemotron open model, but they use OpenAI GPT models as well. They also claim to use the H20.AI agentic LLM platform for analytics and forecasting of patient trends.

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