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  • On the post: Sony Threatens Fan Server For ‘Concord’, Which It Shut Down A Year Ago 2 Weeks After Release

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 20 Nov, 2025 @ 09:40am

    ....do you not understand that MarkScan partners with others to police IP? You can't really think that MarkScan just goes out there and issues takedowns for IP they don't own without the permission of partners like Sony.....can you?

  • On the post: Formula 1, Others Oppose Arena Football One’s Logo Trademark Application

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2025 @ 04:20am

    Holy shit, what a typo. I will fix that immediately.

  • On the post: Hey, Microsoft: Are You Guys Also Cool With DHS And Trump Using ‘Halo’ Imagery For Fascism?

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2025 @ 05:50am

    "It’s not fascism, and calling it such is a deliberate call to violence." That's not how speech works and your naked attempt to play word games is both obvious and silly. Do better.

  • On the post: No Mandatory Bibles, No Prager U Tests: Oklahoma’s New Superintendent Unwinds The Walters Era

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 23 Oct, 2025 @ 08:09pm

    Hi there, Doug

    "You were rather ambivalent about the value of unions, which is not cool." I've never been terribly interested in being "cool", whatever the hell that means. "You can go to your boss and beg for a good working environment. Of course you risk getting fired for doing so, because many bosses have thin skin. Or you can go to your union, and your union can negotiate on your behalf, where the personal risk goes down and the likelihood of success goes up… It’s pretty clear that the union is the superior option here." Funny enough, I actually have an 8 to 5. And I'm not union. And I literally do what you're saying I won't get positive results from, and yet I do. Look, unions aren't bad. They aren't good, either. They're somewhere in between and we all have to do the math and decide if they, at this very moment (not historically, not as a tally of all that they've done previously) are a net positive or negative. I, personally, am both ignorant and ambivalent for the very same reason: I've never been in a union and don't feel comfortable passing final judgement on them. "Of course it’s possible for any organization to forget about its values. But we shouldn’t assume this has already happened in Oklahoma without evidence." Literally nobody, including me, did that. Like....not even close. "That’s insulting to the teachers. After all, which is more likely, a bad boss or a bad union?" They're both made of people so....pretty close call to me, honestly? Could go either way? I mean, probably the former, in my experience, but I have no reason to think that the margin on that is huge. "Checks notes. … Now I remember: this is a story about a bad boss." Indeed. That's why I find your critique, though I think well articulated and clearly passionate, so bewildering.

  • On the post: Measles Outbreaks Abound Under RFK Jr.’s Inaction

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 23 Oct, 2025 @ 10:29am

    "Measles is no big deal" is certainly a take, I suppose....

  • On the post: The Federal Police Are Rioting: Chicago Edition

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2025 @ 06:05am

    No

    It is a very silly thing to both point to the Constitution as a remedy for what is occurring right now AND to say you can't wait for the courts because they're bought and paid for. Either stand for the rule of law, or don't. It's not a buffet where you get to pick which parts of democracy are valid and which are not.

  • On the post: Trump Calls For The Arrest Of J.B. Pritzker, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2025 @ 05:42am

    "You gotta understand, trump WANTS violence, and the more the better. That’s the point of everything he’s been doing. He’s looking for his Reichstag Fire moment. He needs a Cause célèbre he can use to legitimately invoke the insurrection act and declare martial law." I completely understand this. In fact, it's mostly my point, but the seasoning I add to it is this: this is coming one way or another. And if it's coming one way or another, I would rather Trump's victims participate in choosing the time and location for when this comes to a head. Otherwise, it's left to the administration's devices.

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

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 09 Oct, 2025 @ 10:50am

    Yeah, but

    "Here’s a president whose supporters claimed he would “bring free speech back” explicitly acknowledging that his administration has done the opposite." Well, sure, but it's the kind of speech we don't like, so it's fine - everyone in MAGA, definitely

  • On the post: OK GOP State Senator, Essentially: Ryan Walters’ Mandates Were Performative Bullshit

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 07 Oct, 2025 @ 09:14am

    Stay tuned....

  • On the post: Senator Cassidy Takes To ExTwitter, Radio To Rail Against RFK Jr., Whom He Voted To Confirm

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2025 @ 05:46pm

    I am very sorry to disappoint you, but I don't do Red Team, Blue Team politics.

  • On the post: Polling Suggests The Country Is Absolutely Done With RFK Jr.

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 01 Oct, 2025 @ 10:31am

    Sample Sizes

    It really depends on the type of poll and what it's polling for. 1,000 -2,000 respondents is the sample size you mostly see in many national opinion and political polling. There is a significant decrease in margin of error if you go from 1,500 to even just 2,500 (roughly a 1 point decrease in margin of error expected). These seem like tiny differences, but they have more of an accuracy impact than you might expect. Anything much larger than that suffers from the law of diminishing returns, as well. So, 1,500 responses is, again, not on the larger end of the spectrum, nor is it on the small side. It's roughly in the middle, with a 3%-5% expected margin of error. Kennedy's polling is so piss poor that the margin doesn't really matter all that much in this case.

  • On the post: Trump Administration Now Murdering People In International Waters Just Because

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2025 @ 11:59am

    Way to gloss over the question of whether these are "foreign terrorists", dipshit. What makes them so, other than President Basketball saying so?

  • On the post: RFK Jr. Heads To Congress As GOP Support Starts To Crack

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 04 Sep, 2025 @ 12:54pm

    Watched it

    I watched the hearing. It was WILD. I need to digest it once more before I write something about it :)

  • On the post: MAHA Draft Report: Pesticides, Processed Foods Unmentioned, But Conspiracy Theories Abound

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2025 @ 05:49am

    Good job....

    Your pedantry is impressive. If your only real complaint is that I used "child" instead of "non-adult", I'll take that as a compliment. Given the strict definition of "child", you're technically right, which is the best kind of right.

  • On the post: Vodka, Sneakers, & Goats: Dumb Trademark Dispute Ends Up In Court

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2025 @ 05:34am

    If I can be a small repository of respite for you by showing you some lower scale stupid, I'll take it :)

  • On the post: RFK Jr. Ends Federal Contracts To Develop mRNA Vaccines

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2025 @ 06:11am

    Right....

    "You…you realize you lost, right? Your next chance to “send someone packing” will be 2028, and honestly your odds don’t look good." Super good point. After all, a cabinet secretary has never been ousted before the end of the President's term....

  • On the post: Idaho AG Office Forces Schools To Take Down ‘Everyone Is Welcome’ Signs For Being ‘Political’

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 10 Jul, 2025 @ 01:57pm

    "The point is that if a Christian/conservative posts an includivity poster,then you don’t think that they are welcome, thereby proving that the “Everyone is welcome” solgan is definitely political." Exactly what are you basing that bullshit conjecture on?

  • On the post: Idaho AG Office Forces Schools To Take Down ‘Everyone Is Welcome’ Signs For Being ‘Political’

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 10 Jul, 2025 @ 12:30pm

    And?

    Other than a lame attempt at both-sides-ing this, what does that have to do w/the post above, Scooter?

  • On the post: Trump Launches America’s Newest Concentration Camp, Complete With Tacky Merch

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2025 @ 02:48pm

    Jefferson said it long ago

    Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference! — Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

  • On the post: Noem Announces Military Will ‘Liberate’ LA From Democracy, Then Watches Security Throw Senator To Ground

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2025 @ 07:13am

    He will absolutely not get convicted. I don't see any route to either side getting two-thirds of the Senate seats, which is what the Dems would need to get a conviction, given the Cult of Donald that is the GOP. Whatever mechanism we want to employ to stop this fascist takeover, it sure as shit is not impeachment.

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