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• On the post: Trump Admits: “We Took The Freedom Of Speech Away”

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2025 @ 10:55am

  This and "I hate my opponents and I don't want the best for them." are both going to make great campaign points for Democrats to make hay with.

• On the post: Trump’s Immigration Theater: Pulling Cops Off Child Sex Crimes To Chase Landscapers

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2025 @ 01:16pm

  Chasing sex predators and drug dealers is hard, because there aren't many of them and they hide. Chasing day laborers around Home Depot parking lots is easy because there are so many of them and makes for great TV (for a certain sort of sicko).

• On the post: NCTC Discovers That Online Gaming Platforms Have Chats, Image Sharing

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2025 @ 04:18am

  I realize this is a joke, but people seriously did blame Gutenberg for giving anyone the power to write stuff down. If someone other than monks or court scribes can write (and read!) you lose all control over what they write (and read!).

• On the post: Another Day, Another Age Verification Data Breach: Discord’s Third-Party Partner Leaked Government IDs

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 07 Oct, 2025 @ 05:36pm

  Pretty sure this is just because those nerds didn't nerd hard enough. If we just pass a law mandating that they nerd harder everything will work out perfectly. And hey, if it doesn't, that's a culture war wedge issue that can be exploited to stoke fear among the voters of spooky cyber criminals on the loose. If they actually fixed the issue there'd be nothing to campaign on.

• On the post: Senator Cruz Figure Out Who Was President From 2018 To 2020 Challenge; Impossible

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 06 Oct, 2025 @ 12:34pm

  Ted Cruz is an embarrassing political insect. I apologize on behalf of Texas for once upon a time I did vote for him back in 2012 (I was young and impressionable and took him at his words). He's not a stupid person. He's simply a spineless political animal who will say anything for a vote. He has no principles he truly believes in. As far as I can tell there are no causes he would ever champion and no ship he would ever go down with. He does not represent his voters anymore than a farmer represents his corn. He knows exactly what he's doing. He just doesn't care.

• On the post: Another Trump Official Carelessly Talks War Plans While Hanging Around With Civilians

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 06 Oct, 2025 @ 11:14am

  Trump surrounds himself with people as incompetent as he is, must be a day that ends in Y.

• On the post: Reagan-Appointed Judge Torches Trump Admin’s Bullshit Chilling Effects Campaign Against Pro-Palestinian Speech

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2025 @ 04:36pm

  The whole thing just needs to be restructured from the ground up. Here's what I would have done:

  They appear to have treated "antisemitism" as something that one simply knows when one sees it, but however however heinous it may be, without more remains protected speech.

  When it's untangled like this it actually stops making a lot of sense. I get what he's trying to say, but it's not one point, it's two: 1) The administration is wrong because raw antisemitism is not in itself criminal. It cannot be suppressed. 2) The administration is double wrong because they don't offer a concrete definition of what they are trying to suppress. The sentence as written is trying to express both, but does it poorly. The guy can be cut some slack though. Let he who can write 160 pages of unedited text without a sloppy sentence cast the first stone.

• On the post: Reagan-Appointed Judge Torches Trump Admin’s Bullshit Chilling Effects Campaign Against Pro-Palestinian Speech

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2025 @ 02:56pm

  I agree with pretty much everything being said but:

  They appear to have treated “antisemitism,” which, however heinous, is, without more, protected speech, as something that, in essence, one simply knows when one sees it.

  This sentence should be taken out back and shot. Eight commas is a linguistic war crime.

• On the post: Senile Trump Posts, Then Deletes, AI Deepfake Of Himself Promoting Wacky MedBed Conspiracy Theory

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2025 @ 12:37pm

  I've got my $5 on An Heroing in the Oval Office somewhere between November 2028 and Jan 2029.

• On the post: Trump Deploying The National Guard To Fight Crime Blurs The Legal Distinction Between Police & Military

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2025 @ 01:14pm

  Didn't he already do that when the ICE prisoners got shot?

• On the post: Trump Declares Everyone Who Doesn’t Kiss His Ass Is A Terrorist

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2025 @ 03:09pm

  Bush was pro immigration.

• On the post: Indiana’s AG Makes It Clear He’s Going To Target Anyone Who Isn’t Reverential Enough Of Charlie Kirk’s Corpse

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2025 @ 03:02pm

  Because until he died Kirk was a relatively minor figure in the constellation of MAGA celebrities, yet another B-tier sop cashing in on videos of "owning the libs". Alive, he wasn't actually worth much to MAGA. I don't think if you asked your average MAGA-hat-wearing ape-man what his favorite thing about Charlie Kirk was they'd find that pretty hard to articulate. There's like 50 other podcasters just like him still out there pulling the exact same shtick. Any one of them could have taken the bullet and it would have turned out the same. Charlie Kirk is worth more to MAGA dead than he ever was (or would have been) alive. As a dead martyr, he has become the ultimate wedge issue. They can make a saint out him just because it makes liberals angry to do so. It's a rather repulsive world view really, that views people and their lives as worth only what they contribute to The Cause. To the left, Charlie Kirk was a dumbass grifter making a fast buck on hate. To the right he was an expendable pawn. It doesn't so much highlight their hypocrisy as their utter moral bankruptcy.

• On the post: Supreme Court Uses Shadow Docket To Let Trump Fire FTC Commissioner While Pretending They Haven’t Already Decided The Case

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2025 @ 05:14pm

  Thomas, Alito, and Roberts are paying back Trump? For what exactly? Paying back the Heritage Foundation? How? By disemboweling the power of the judiciary and throwing their own fellow members under the bus? It doesn't add up.

• On the post: Supreme Court Uses Shadow Docket To Let Trump Fire FTC Commissioner While Pretending They Haven’t Already Decided The Case

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2025 @ 04:25pm

  I just don't get it. What do the six conservative justices on the SC get from being this obsequious? It's not like they have any higher offices to aspire to that Trump can hand them. There's no more power to grab for themselves (in fact, they are throwing away their own power with startling alacrity). What does Trump have on them? Does he have their family members in a hidden location? What earthly delights can the Donald shower upon them that makes all this worth it?

• On the post: DHS Demands Media, Politicians Stop Being So Mean To ICE

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2025 @ 01:38pm

  It really is something else to watch ICE prisoners get gunned down in cold blood and then have ICE act like they were the targets and everyone should be concerned for their safety.

• On the post: DHS Demands Media, Politicians Stop Being So Mean To ICE

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2025 @ 01:35pm

  No, no. Don't summarize. Quote the man in full:

  "That’s where I disagreed with Charlie, I hate my opponent, and I don’t want the best for them." -Donald J. Trump, President of the United States

• On the post: Brendan Carr Is A Shameless Liar: Now Pretending He Didn’t Break The Law And Censor Comedians Critical Of His Dim, Unpopular Boss

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2025 @ 05:17am

  Here I am. It's me. I'm a free speech absolutist who hated what Biden did and considered it completely beyond the pale (even the mere accusation, to me, was disqualifying). What Trump is doing is now so much worse, the man is redefining new depths of public corruption and shooting new holes in the First Amendment on a daily basis. But see, I've always been consistent about this. I'd rather have the Oval Office sit completely empty for four years than Trump be placed in it again. I suspect you're not really interested in me, nobody internet commenter that I am, "admitting" to beliefs I have always held. You're more interested in the sort of people who would cast their support for a three-time-married rapist felon who previously tried to violently overthrow the country and expressed indifference to the life of his own vice president and you want them to come and admit that they were wrong. You won't get it, because if they had consistent principles they wouldn't have voted or him the first time around, let alone the second, and definitely not the third. And most of all they don't post here. Try a comment like this on some obnoxious troll farm like Reason and you'll get lots of responses (almost entirely crude remarks about your sexuality and parentage).

• On the post: Hey, Nintendo: You Cool With ICE Using Your Pokémon IP To Recruit More Goons?

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 25 Sep, 2025 @ 05:03am

  Bullies are usually also cowards. Nothing surprising about this at all.

• On the post: Brendan Carr Is A Shameless Liar: Now Pretending He Didn’t Break The Law And Censor Comedians Critical Of His Dim, Unpopular Boss

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2025 @ 12:56pm

  I think we can all agree that "the easy way or the hard way" is a needlessly ambiguous term. Perhaps he was just planning to do paperwork for the next 1.5 years (I'm pretty much banking on him going to jail in/by early 2027).

• On the post: Anthropic’s AI Lawsuit Settlement May Not Go Through, But It Exposes A Truth About Copyright

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2025 @ 04:48am

  If a child borrows a book from a friend (let's just say it's a famous one like... oh, the Lord of the Rings, for the purpose of argument), actually heck, let's say he's a brazen little thief and steals the Lord of the Rings from Barnes & Noble, reads it, and then goes on to become a well known published fantasy author, can he now be sued for copyright infringement? His stories are all about elves and dwarves and wizards and dragons, but there's nothing straight ripped line for line from LOTR. He was however, essentially, trained on a pirated dataset.

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