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  • On the post: RFK Jr. Just Made Texas AG Ken Paxton Look Like An Asshole And It’s Hilarious

    n00bdragon ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2025 @ 01:33pm

    This. It's the AG equivalent of "I've created a new bill mandating a pony for every child".

  • On the post: DHS, White House Shrug Off Having Their Social Media Lies Pointed Out To Them

    n00bdragon ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2025 @ 10:18am

    “Violence and rioting against law enforcement is unacceptable regardless of where it occurs,”
    What about the United States capitol building? I assume the rules are different there.

  • On the post: Extremely Innovative: HBO Raises Streaming Prices For The Third Time In Three Years

    n00bdragon ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2025 @ 06:22am

    To be entirely fair to them, those increases track with inflation just fine. They aren't innovating or improving anything, but the dollars don't go as far as they used to.

  • On the post: Kristi Noem Lies, Says Stupid Shit While Defending ICE From ‘Demonization’ By Press, Gov’t Officials

    n00bdragon ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2025 @ 10:09am

    she urged citizens to thank law enforcement officers and “cook a meal for their families.”
    No thanks Ms. Noem, unless you're going for a clean sweep on the bill of rights by knocking out the Third Amendment too.

  • On the post: Elon Musk Discovers What Hierarchy Actually Means

    n00bdragon ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2025 @ 04:52pm

    Oh no. The leopards are eating people's faces. Who could have foreseen this?

  • On the post: DOJ Purge Continues With Firing Of Prosecutor Who Refused To Go After Trump’s Personal Enemies

    n00bdragon ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2025 @ 03:14pm

    I'm not sure if it's naivete. George Washington directly warned us about this in his farewell address over two centuries ago.

    "However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion." Farewell Address | Saturday, September 17, 1796
    The founders knew full well the danger of allowing people to rule themselves. Honestly, I think if you told them it would take 250 years for this to happen most of them would be over the moon that it took this long, that the idea they cobbled together held out so long and became the most powerful and important country in the world at its height. Not trying to be doom and gloom. The US may very well emerge from this crisis a better stronger nation, but even if it doesn't, you gotta admit: it was a pretty good run. I think the founders would have been proud of that.

  • On the post: RFK Jr. Is Very Interested In, And Likely Wrong About, Your Teenager’s Sperm Count

    n00bdragon ( profile ), 22 Oct, 2025 @ 04:23am

    Really, why would any self-respecting man want to be a poorly behaved eleven-year-old boy in the body of an adult? Because that’s what today’s self-described “alpha males” usually are. Every functioning society and pretty much all the things that make life worth living are based on building and creating things. Today’s self-described “alpha males”, on the other hand, are only good at destroying things others have built or created.
    “The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.” -- Aldous Huxley It's about being an asshole and calling it "gender roles".

  • On the post: State Department Revokes Visas Of Foreigners Who Refused To Pretend Charlie Kirk Is Worth Mourning

    n00bdragon ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2025 @ 06:15pm

    And some of those people in the White House right now were hiding for fear of their lives that day. That's what makes it so inscrutable! His goon squad literally tried to kill them the first time. Now they are crawling over each other to out-goose-step each other right into another such situation. On a surface level, it looks like massive collective amnesia and manic insanity. If I'm a propaganda agent I'm a damn bad one since even I can't figure out what "cause" I'd support these days. If there's something I'd want other people to believe in, it's that honor, integrity, the rule of law, peace, democracy, and civil rights are all things worth demanding. They are all non-negotiable. It's not a matter of bargaining which of them you are willing to trade away in order to get the rest. The entire collection of them is the bare essential minimum for holding public office in this country. It's all or nothing.

  • On the post: 9th Circuit Judge Blasts Colleagues For Enabling Trump’s Unconstitutional Military Invasion Of Portland

    n00bdragon ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2025 @ 03:41pm

    There have been "shootings"? Really? In Portland? Of ICE Officers? Do you want to share with the class?

  • On the post: State Department Revokes Visas Of Foreigners Who Refused To Pretend Charlie Kirk Is Worth Mourning

    n00bdragon ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2025 @ 03:36pm

    If billionaires are out there right now handing out lifelong gravy trains to push the overton window in that direction someone should tell them it isn't working.

  • On the post: State Department Revokes Visas Of Foreigners Who Refused To Pretend Charlie Kirk Is Worth Mourning

    n00bdragon ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2025 @ 03:29pm

    Does it though? Does he have terminal cancer? Is he planning to die before 2028? Who in the White House right now isn't painfully aware that unless Trump goes full Fuhrer they'll all be in jail by February 2029 and if he does go full Fuhrer their odds of survival directly correlate to how much Trump loves them (up until the moment he doesn't anyway)? It's like hiding from the leopards by placing your head between their teeth because all the "good" hiding spots are already taken. Is he that stupid? I struggle to believe that he is. I keep expecting every day to find out it was either blackmail or a weird sex thing.

  • On the post: State Department Revokes Visas Of Foreigners Who Refused To Pretend Charlie Kirk Is Worth Mourning

    n00bdragon ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2025 @ 12:43pm

    And for what? Why does Marco Rubio do it? I realize that I've posted comments like this half a dozen times already but really, really, why? Rubio has already been publicly castrated by his boss. He cannot aspire to any higher office. He has less to do on the job than Kamala Harris had going on during the Biden years and mainly seems to be confined to trying to mop up the mess whenever Trump shits the foreign relations bed with a diarrhetic 2am twitter post. He's despised by the MAGA right for his previous life as an establishment Republican. He has zero future with that constituency. He's reviled by the exiled actual-conservative constituency for being a gutless fascist sellout. His own Cuban-American Floridian base will never vote for him again because of his disgusting treatment of immigrants. Why does he do it? Is he part of the dwindling camp that still believes he can blunt the damage Trump does to America better from within the system? If so, why is he so manically trying to do the Donald's worst bidding? Why is he so desperate for the approval of a man who publicly derides and belittles him? It just makes no sense.

  • On the post: 9th Circuit Judge Blasts Colleagues For Enabling Trump’s Unconstitutional Military Invasion Of Portland

    n00bdragon ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2025 @ 10:10am

    Well, he's already shooting at California highways. Anyone want to take an over under on when he orders soldiers to start shooting in a given direction and blaming the victims for standing in the way of the bullets?

  • On the post: Convicted Fraudster Trevor Milton Rides His Trump Pardon To Another CEO Job, Somehow

    n00bdragon ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2025 @ 04:14am

    Reading TechDirt is getting more depressing as the months go by and it's not even the fault of the writers. They simply cannot keep up with the crime machine that is Donald Trump's twitter account. By the time any post makes it here we're three outrages down the street.

  • On the post: Why Things Are The Way They Are

    n00bdragon ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2025 @ 04:03am

    This too shall pass.

  • On the post: Prop 50, The Better Of Two Bad Choices

    n00bdragon ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2025 @ 06:45pm

    You think that's what you want, but I guarantee you don't. If you need a glimpse of where that kind of logic leads, look no further than the White House. The right gave up on moral consistency because they wanted to win. If you really want to beat them at that game, you'll lose the very things you want to protect so badly.

  • On the post: Prop 50, The Better Of Two Bad Choices

    n00bdragon ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2025 @ 02:31pm

    Doing the right thing is not disarming. Giving in and indulging your base instincts to retaliate is disarming yourself of something much more powerful: the moral high ground.

  • On the post: Republican Governor Actually Steps Up To Criticize Trump’s Use Of National Guard Troops

    n00bdragon ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2025 @ 04:22pm

    That's the funny thing about throwing away all your principals except loyalty. There's always a bigger idiot more willing to humiliate themselves in a greater show of subservience. All he's done is show that he can be replaced with a greater fool.

  • On the post: Justice Barrett’s Tone-Deaf Defense Of The Shadow Docket Comes As Federal Judges Revolt Against Supreme Court’s “Mystical” Orders

    n00bdragon ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2025 @ 03:11pm

    And if we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue.
    How does that saying go again? "Justice Delayed is Justice Denied"?

  • On the post: America Is Now The World’s Sundown Town

    n00bdragon ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2025 @ 03:00pm

    That's not a racist dog whistle. It's a racist vuvuzela.

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