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• On the post: The Fake Free Speech President Has Unleashed ICE On Its Critics

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2026 @ 10:38pm

  Biden should have made sure the prosecutions happened faster, but Trump was also aided by the courts he packed with conservative judges before Biden got elected. Democracy doesn't typically die in a single action. It's a death by a thousand cuts.

• On the post: Judiciary Committee Dems Open Investigation Into DOJ’s Reflecting Pool Revenge Prosecutions

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2026 @ 07:21pm

  NYT is apparently the new CNN. You seem to think everyone you disagree with consumes the same media and you completely misrepresent/misunderstand the politics of the media you think other people consume. You think NYT is "far-left" but even left-of-center people think NYT is corporate "centrist"/right-of-center and wealth-apologists. They've been throwing bad headlines about leftist and DSA candidates a lot, catching a lot of criticism for it from the left, and you seem to think they're sickle-waving communists.

• On the post: The Fake Free Speech President Has Unleashed ICE On Its Critics

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2026 @ 01:26pm

  Trump likes Free Speech.

  Trump "likes" free speech the same way he likes underage girls.

  All ICE can do is deport Illegal Aliens.

  That hasn't stopped them from detaining, torturing, and murdering US citizens. But at least you acknowledge that they don't have the legal authority to do what they've been doing and are actively breaking the law. That you acknowledge this and still support them makes you a bootlicker of the lowest form. Anything for your racism and xenophobia, I suppose.

• On the post: New Mexico Judge Appoints Himself Meta’s New Product Manager

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2026 @ 08:15pm

  Sure. But this judge isn't countering Meta's bullshit everywhere. He's addressing the myopic things he can see as a problem. And I don't expect Meta's lawyers and lobbyists to take this lying down, so it may be short lived and shot down and thus a completely waste, possibly even making Meta legally stronger by creating precedents that swing too much in the other direction than intended.

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  MrWilson ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2026 @ 08:12pm

  I'm literally advocating against those parents and politicians making crappy legislation without the input of everyone else. I haven't seen any publications and tech groups say they aren't willing to work directly with politicians. I've even seen some legislative frameworks or at least priniciples being suggested. I don't see politicians working with anyone other than lobbyists and megacorporations. It's like criticizing a schlub for not dating a supermodel. The supermodels have to be interested for it to be possible. Politicians are "doing something" to look busy and have something to campaign on. You can't blame the people for not being represented by the elected officials who refuse to represent anything other than money and power.

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  MrWilson ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2026 @ 10:14am

  There are literally videos of multiple different people cutting the liner. unfortunately, there is no video or proof, other than the damage, itself

  Now we get to test your sycophantry. Are you lying or is Trump lying here? How dare you contradict the great American president of truthiness?!? Have you no shame, sir? Vids or it didn't happen. You can resolve this by just linking to a video. Just copy and paste. A middle schooler who hasn't gotten his phone confiscated in class yet could do it. Are you dumber than a middle schooler?

• On the post: Fauci’s Senate Hearing Shows How Conspiracy Theories Have Become Political Weapons

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2026 @ 09:09pm

  Cool strawman, bro. Reread what I said. I literally said: "They still require proof rather than conjecture to establish validity." I didn't say anything about all conspiracy theories being invalid. I literally said that some conspiracies are actually true, but that doesn't make all conspiracy theories true. The ones we know are true have been validated with evidence, that thing you're deathly allergic to providing. If you think the lab origin theory is true, post evidence. That clears it all up. We don't have to go in circles. Just copy and paste, dude. You're confident you're right, so surely you have proof, right? You wouldn't just be confident because you believe your preferred propaganda outlets, right? Right?

• On the post: Fauci’s Senate Hearing Shows How Conspiracy Theories Have Become Political Weapons

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2026 @ 09:02pm

  far-left newspapers like NYT

  Look at John Birch over here denouncing the "far-left" New York Times. Do you imagine the editors dress in black bloc gear and throw antifa protests in the office between meetings? The funny thing is that if the New York Times were anything like you imagine, actual leftists might read it more.

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  MrWilson ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2026 @ 05:30pm

  Nope. Not at all. It is absolutely not the responsibility of Mike or politicians or other citizens to come up with solutions for what is ultimately a parental issue. And failure to come up with a solution parents and moral panickers would find assuaging is not a justification for kneejerk authoritarian, liberty- and privacy-shattering heavy-handed methods as we "think of the children" and just "do something." Bullies existed before social media. Unhealthy body image and peer pressure existed before social media. Obsessive time-sink ADHD rabbit holes existed before social media. Substance abuse and grooming existed before social media. Et cetera. Et cetera. Other people (including other parents) also have their own issues to deal with without also becoming responsible for your kids and having to sacrifice their privacy and security for some bullshit that won't actually protect children from actual harms and may in fact make it worse.

• On the post: Fauci’s Senate Hearing Shows How Conspiracy Theories Have Become Political Weapons

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2026 @ 05:21pm

  "I'm not reading your articles! I'm still not reading your articles! Hey guys, listen, I'm not reading your articles!" [insert Curly Bill "Well... Bye" meme here]

• On the post: Fauci’s Senate Hearing Shows How Conspiracy Theories Have Become Political Weapons

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2026 @ 05:16pm

  (as I have pointed out to you, many times, this is now the widely accepted scenario)

  By whom specifically? I can go to a rural town in Alabama and find a majority agreement that Trump won the 2020 election and January 6th was entirely carried out by antifa and the FBI. And as you cite a source, include an explanation why that source is to be believed over others. What evidence is such a conclusion drawn from?

• On the post: Fauci’s Senate Hearing Shows How Conspiracy Theories Have Become Political Weapons

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2026 @ 05:14pm

  Numerous US intelligence agencies have ruled that it is by far the most likely scenario.

  You're not representing what they've said accurately. Cite it verbatim.

  CCP is of course obscuring things (which is a “conspiracy”, of course, but CCP does that kinda stuff all the time)

  This is the part I find the funniest (as in absurd). If the US funded the creation of covid in a lab and then leaked it, why would China restrain itself from broadcasting that the US was to blame for the pandemic? They have a get-out-of-blame free card and they're not using it. Maybe they don't want to grant access because it makes them look bad, not the US...

  Fauci, himself, wrote in his journals that it clearly didn’t come from the wet market. That’s one of the lies he told. (because he was funding the Wuhan lab)

  Again, cite it verbatim. Fauci initially thought it came from the wet market and then later it was determined that the market likely just accelerated it. That's revising your conclusions based on new data. You know, the scientific method. (Okay, maybe you don't know, but we'll pretend.) So you're depicting evolving knowledge as a lie as if he was capable of knowing the absolute truth in advance of learning it. And you're assigning the intent of this "lie" with the "he was funding the Wuhan lab." Also, is he George Soros? Fauci was funding the lab?

  You would know this if you actually read the news from non-biased sources.

  Grok hallucinations and red-pilled fascist podcasts are very biased sources.

• On the post: Fauci’s Senate Hearing Shows How Conspiracy Theories Have Become Political Weapons

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2026 @ 05:03pm

  Basically everything. You should probably try reading the news.

  So you have sources you can cite! Wonderful. We're still waiting.

• On the post: Fauci’s Senate Hearing Shows How Conspiracy Theories Have Become Political Weapons

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2026 @ 12:26pm

  You can’t just say “conspiracy theory” and wave it all away. Conspiracies exist. We find them frequently, in politics in particular. We even have laws specific to conspiracies in commission of a crime, cuz they happen, all the time.

  This is bullshit loose logic. The validity of some conspiracies doesn't make all conspiracy theories true. They still require proof rather than conjecture to establish validity. If you aren't providing that proof, your claims are entirely dismissible. This wink wink "some conspiracies are true, so therefore this one must be!" wouldn't get you past a freshmen logic class at the least funded red state community college. Citation or GTFO.

• On the post: Fauci’s Senate Hearing Shows How Conspiracy Theories Have Become Political Weapons

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2026 @ 10:50am

  Biden’s own Covid Czar now says he believes covid likely came from a lab leak.

  There was more than one "covid czar." Cite your source. Also, "believes...likely" isn't proof. You're doing a selective appeal to authority, ignoring others that don't come to the same conclusion. Why would that one individual be more likely to be correct in his beliefs than anyone else with expertise and experience in relevant topics?

  In early 2020 Fauci was part of a conference call of scientists where 10 of 12 participants believed covid likely came from a lab leak.

  Again, "believed...likely" is weak. First, I'm seeing terminology describing some of the attendees saying it was possible, not "likely" that the virus could come from a lab. It seems like the highest correlation of that possible belief is with people just thinking of the lab, rather than identifying any evidence to prove it. But then we come back to the fact that there isn't enough evidence available to come to a definitive conclusion because China hasn't cooperated. If anyone is making that determination, it's because they want to, not because they have enough evidence to conclude. If they had that evidence, the rest of the world hasn't seen it and they need to release it.

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  MrWilson ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2026 @ 10:35am

  I'm looking at his notes right now and he said on February 20th, 2020 that you're an idiot. Don't believe me? Weird. It's true. I said so. No, I don't need to provide proof. You never do.

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  MrWilson ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2026 @ 09:18pm

  I've seen it. It seems particularly weak. It generalizes "social media" as early Facebook, which was both more limited in access and different from today's algorithmic social media platforms. It notably addresses mental health and drug use among college students, a group notoriously inclined to drink and use drugs and have continually developing brains and often undiagnosed mental health issues if they came from families that ignored them. It also relies of surveys and self-reporting, so a lot of counter evidence could be missing because people who aren't as susceptible to possible negative influences might not have responded to the survey. And the availability of social media isn't the same as the use. It also doesn't address that social media may be attractive to people who already have untreated mental health issues. It's also funny since drug use and binge drinking has been going down in the last few decades among younger people. There are just too many weaknesses for the conclusion to be anything more than the usual, "we recommend further study..." And then there's the essential flaw that is likely in all such studies, regardless of the moral panic flavor of the decade: Humans will always be the root source of a problem, regardless of which tools they use to interact with the world. Telephones supposedly ruined people's ability to interact properly in person. Newspaper made people antisocial in public. Video games made kids not want to go outside.

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  MrWilson ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2026 @ 08:45pm

  I miss the Consumerist.

• On the post: Fauci’s Senate Hearing Shows How Conspiracy Theories Have Become Political Weapons

  

  MrWilson ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2026 @ 08:40pm

  The MAGA audience needs its two minutes hate and Fauci is a recurring Emmanuel Goldstein for them to collectively froth at. All the chuds who were upset they couldn't go out and lick doorknobs at the height of the infections are happy to sacrifice someone for their own fictitious edification, just as they were completely fine with killing off grandma so they could cough on other people back in the day.

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  MrWilson ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2026 @ 04:45pm

  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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