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• 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.

• On the post: Justin Baldoni’s Defamation Suit Against Lively, Reynolds, NY Times Has Been Dismissed

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2025 @ 10:10am

  There's more nuance to it than that, but you essentially have it right. Statements made within a lawsuit can have qualified privelage, as those statements are themselves the subject of the civil suit. Were those statements found to be defamatory, meaning lies told with knowledge of their falsity, there are mechanisms for punishment for that, but they otherwise are assumed to be made in good faith as part of the suit itself. Otherwise, every single civil suit could be countersued for defamation and you would see that all over the place. https://www.bdblaw.com/privilege-defense-in-a-defamation-case/

• On the post: Sen. Joni Ernst To Constituents Regarding Medicaid Cuts: We’re All Going To Die, Someday

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2025 @ 09:13am

  Very cute, but inaccurate, as per usual. IL just passed its 2026 budget. It is balanced. GOP in IL are reduced to not liking how the accounting is done in the numbers when it comes to specific programs, but even they aren't trying to say it's not a balanced budget: https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-senate-passes-state-55b-budget-new-taxes-sports-bets-nicotine-products-income-sales-not-affected/16619774/ And the state is most certainly not seeing any kind of material decline in population. It goes up, it goes down, it goes up, it goes down in the past five years. The longer term trend is one of population growth, not decline. https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/states/illinois/population

• On the post: Sen. Joni Ernst To Constituents Regarding Medicaid Cuts: We’re All Going To Die, Someday

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2025 @ 06:19am

  I can see your point here and it reminds me of my favorite bible story, the Good Samaritan, where the Samaritan sees the suffering person dying after being robbed on the side of the road, heads over to provide help, but then remembers that nobody has paid for him to ease the suffering of others and spits on the poor person instead, before kicking him in the ribs for good measure. Also, your entire post is essentially an advertisement for raising taxes, particularly on the wealthy.

• On the post: Palworld Patching Out More Gameplay Features As It Seeks To Invalidate Nintendo/Pokémon Patents

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 15 May, 2025 @ 05:41am

  You'll see more on the EULA changes shortly :) That said, I wasn't aware of the Brazil piece of that. I'll have to look into it.

• On the post: Trump Admits He Could Get Abrego Garcia Back, But Angrily Insists Non-Existent Tattoos Are The Reason He Won’t

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 02 May, 2025 @ 12:36pm

  It's quite easy to understand how the actual points in the post flew over your head, given you were down on the ground licking Trump's boots....

• On the post: US Measles Cases On Pace To Eclipse 2019, 1994 Case Numbers

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2025 @ 09:22am

  "The risk to the general populace (who all have measles shots) is fairly low." This is a misunderstanding of the state of things currently. The general populace is NOT all MMR protected. Current vax rates for MMR among the public is at roughly 93%, less than the 95% required for herd immunity protection. In addition, that vax rate has been falling for several years and is continuing to do so. This puts many more people at risk, while also allowing the disease to infect more hosts and, potentially, to evolve beyond current protections. IOW, this is a problem for all of us, not just the unvaxxed.

• On the post: A New One: House Speaker Blames Video Games For Medicaid ‘Abuse’

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2025 @ 06:02am

  Wow

  Your confidence in whatever tool your using to try to split a hair this fine is misplaced, my friend....

• On the post: When Good People Make A Mistake They Try To Fix It; If They Don’t, They’re Not Good People

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2025 @ 06:25am

  Just wait...

  Until we find out that this victim of American trafficking is no longer alive. He had a status preventing him from being sent to El Salvador for a reason, after all....

• On the post: Amid The Measles Outbreak, HHS Cuts 1/8th Of Workforce

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2025 @ 11:39am

  I was not aware that HHS held dominion over the healthcare of other nations. I recognize that every time you comment, you're trying to make a plea for every country other than America, but this post and those before it are about the American HHS secretary. What exactly are you looking for?

• On the post: A Bipartisan Roster Of Former FCC Officials Say Trump FCC Boss Brendan Carr Is Taking A Giant Dump On The First Amendment

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 02 Apr, 2025 @ 08:03am

  And what if they decide to deceive, or are perceived to have deceived, audiences in a way that doesn't specifically involve so-called "doctoring" or an interview. That's the problem with actions like this. They aren't as closed-ended as you seem to think they are. For example, should Newsmax even have a license anymore after this? https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/newsmax-agreed-pay-40-million-settle-defamation-suit-over-2020-false-election-2025-03-13/

• On the post: A Bipartisan Roster Of Former FCC Officials Say Trump FCC Boss Brendan Carr Is Taking A Giant Dump On The First Amendment

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 02 Apr, 2025 @ 07:39am

  Careful....

  You folks really, REALLY don't want to go down this road. The GOP won't be in power forever and eventually this sort of censorship program will be turned around on the likes of Fox, NewsMax, etc. I don't want that to happen. And neither should you.

• On the post: Elon Musk Is Said To Be Getting The War Plan Against China

  

  Dark Helmet ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2025 @ 10:20am

  I'm sorry, are you somehow so naive so as to think that great and mid-sized powers don't have contingency warplans drawn up in the event of a real life conflict? What are you actually complaining about?

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