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  • On the post: Israel Gives Blacklisted Spyware Companies The Go-Ahead To Help It Track Israeli Hostages

    Matt Bennett ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2023 @ 07:48pm

    So you didn't have anything useful to say, should've just said that.

  • On the post: Israel Gives Blacklisted Spyware Companies The Go-Ahead To Help It Track Israeli Hostages

    Matt Bennett ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2023 @ 07:48pm

    There IS a war going on, and no, it’s not the latest Israeli excuse to march back into Gaza.
    A baby being cooked in the over while the mom watches is an "excuse". Boom, found the terrorist.

  • On the post: Community Notes Is A Useful Tool For Some Things… But Not As A Full Replacement For Trust & Safety

    Matt Bennett ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2023 @ 07:42pm

    It's not "Trust and Saftey", it's censorship.

    Also very explictly stifling of dissent. Giving it an Orwellian name doesn't make it any better yopu gaslighting tool. Community Notes is 100x better than the dystopian "let your betters decide what is true" bull crap that you want. Musk said a stupid thing and got told. That's great! It took about half a day, also great! It's also an objectively fair and nonpartisan system uninfluenced by government, and the former system was none of those things. It's meme, grow up, people get to say things you think are wrong. It's not like an emergency that it took a few hours to get tagged.

    It also points to earlier (pre-Elon) research that showed that (then) Birdwatch
    Yeah, I get it, you want to compare Community Notes that is working great to a similar system that worked less great so that you can establish some guilt by association. But the fact is CN is working great.
    But it needs to be part of a wider strategy, not the only strategy.
    No, thank you, we tried that and it sucked. It led to ideological filtering, silencing of dissent, and censorship at gov request. And you continue to lie about all of that but we're not going back. Even FB has largely ditched its "fact-checking" if you didn't notice, cuz it didn't work, like at all. You're not getting the Gadde and Roth Ministry of Truth back, go pound sand.

  • On the post: Would You Trust All Of Your Financial Services & Money To Elon Musk?

    Matt Bennett ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2023 @ 08:18pm

    There wouldn’t be a “constant campaign” of anything if Musk stopped during new stupid things
    Half the things literally didn't happen, the other half weren't stupid. Psst, Masnick doesn't actually know how to run anything, btw.
    Matty tells us to “get over it” again and again and again and again…
    Well, you still aren't. All of this is Masnick (and you) being super sad you can't quash dissent anymore. That's it. That's the whole thing. Go to mastodon, already, you keep on claiming it's gonna be a thing.

  • On the post: Would You Trust All Of Your Financial Services & Money To Elon Musk?

    Matt Bennett ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2023 @ 08:14pm

    You are not even cogent enough to discount.

  • On the post: Just Because Certain Crimes Are Going Viral Doesn’t Mean Crime Rates Are Increasing

    Matt Bennett ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2023 @ 10:45pm

    Nice moving of the goal posts. The 6% drop he’s referring to is year-over-year.
    Yes, you actual moron. The ACTUAL DATA shows 4.5% over two years. I.e. less than half that. 6% would be wholly unimpressive but it was way, way less. (this in "violent crimes" not homicides, which again I think is a bad measure) That's me moving the goal posts how, exactly? Are you bad at reading comp or critical thinking? Pick one
    Homicides in 2022 were 6.3 per 100k. In 1996, they were 7.4. That’s a whopping 14.8% difference. That’s not “almost the same”.
    I was just lining up points on a graph, hence the "~". It was less in 1997. I have no idea what you think you are proving here. !996 was higher than 2022 and 1997 was lower, soo...are you crowing about me being off (with a "~" no less) by about a half a year?
    More importantly,....
    No, not that, actually, not important at all. The important bit is that Masnick's claim "Way less than the 1990's" is just massively false. No, you don't average the whole decade against one year. "The 90's" had years that wee roughly comparable or less than 2022. There is some year long window around '96-'97 that exactly mirrors the homicide rate 2022. Do you not understand math and statistics or are you just lying with purpose?

  • On the post: Just Because Certain Crimes Are Going Viral Doesn’t Mean Crime Rates Are Increasing

    Matt Bennett ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2023 @ 09:56pm

    So you're gonna say the vast majority of people aren't "Humans", then? Cuz seriously about half of people are "right wing" and a considerable portion of the other half think it's wrong to demonize someone just for disagreeing. ...do you realize how nutty you sound? Of course you don't. And the irony of all this I've definitely been lectured by a lefty recently on "dehumanizing" people....

  • On the post: Just Because Certain Crimes Are Going Viral Doesn’t Mean Crime Rates Are Increasing

    Matt Bennett ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2023 @ 09:53pm

    What he said. You know who calls people they don't like "nazi" these days? *Putin *Hamas supporters *Basically the entire far-left. Like, seriously, we've really had it be common to call Jews "nazis" these days, it's almost funny.....but not. I think the truth of it has been laid bare.

  • On the post: Just Because Certain Crimes Are Going Viral Doesn’t Mean Crime Rates Are Increasing

    Matt Bennett ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2023 @ 09:40pm

    That’s a really weird argument to make, when the USA has one of the highest (many years the absolute highest) incarceration rate in the world.
    Is it? How? It's not like the US has the highest crime rate in the world, far from it. Like, I TOTALLY think we over-incarcerate, almost all over none-violent drug crimes, but that has NOTHING to do with the fact that incarcerating violent offenders reduces crime. Really most violence is caused by a VERY small % of the population, removing them just takes it out of society. Some of them age out of it and can be reintroduced as peaceable middle aged persons (men, it's like 95% teenaged males to like 25) and some are just better kept off the streets forever. Don't come at me with your "weird argument to make" bullshit, this has been studied and documented to hell and back. Yeah, sure, we put a lot of people in jail (over drugs) for little reason. Removing violent people still reduces violence.
    In fact, high incarceration rates arguably bring crime rates up
    Except it doesn't, "arguably" or otherwise, again this is well studied. You're mentioning a counter effect but it doesn't change the stats. What hurts me is you think you were arguing on facts but were just arguing on feelings on unrelated stats.

  • On the post: Just Because Certain Crimes Are Going Viral Doesn’t Mean Crime Rates Are Increasing

    Matt Bennett ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2023 @ 02:29pm

    The companies closing those stores are using crime as an excuse for those closings. Earlier this year, Walgreens admitted it had probably overblown a supposed shoplifting crisis that was causing merchandise losses.
    Your link doesn't even quite say what you suggest -- it's an off the cost statement of one executive, and "shrinkage" may indeed have gone down...after they locked everything up and hired armed guards, which both has huge costs and probably suppresses sales. But even if it did, what's your thesis? All these massive, data driven chains are pulling out of a handful of deep blue cities based on a whim? "institutional racism", perhaps? No, dude, they're pulling out because suddenly the stores were making a lot less money, are probably deep in the red. Your comment is false on it's face.

  • On the post: Elon Musk Seems Really, Deeply Committed To Making Sure The FTC Has More To Investigate

    Matt Bennett ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2023 @ 11:34pm

    Nothing the FTC has done in last few years has even been legal (according to courts).

    Why are you supporting Lina Khan's fascist thuggery, Masnick? Just cuz it opposes your nemesis, Elon Musk? None of this has any basis in law, of course. Not that you would know.

  • On the post: Senator Elizabeth Warren Supports Bill To Silence LGBTQ+ Voices

    Matt Bennett ( profile ), 03 Oct, 2023 @ 03:55pm

    Oh, it's way less than that. Yet the surgeries (mutilations) continue.

  • On the post: Feds Probing Tesla For Lying About EV Ranges, Bullshitting Customers Who Complained

    Matt Bennett ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2023 @ 02:08pm

    EVs are completely unworkable at scale

    All care companies lie about EV ranges. Left wing activists lie about how practical they are, and recharge times. Left wing politicians write into law (and "regulations") mandates that won't survive contact with the laws of the physics. None of it is either as "zero emission" nor as environmentally friendly as liberals pretend. The whole thing is going to come crashing down, and cause a whole lot of misery in the meantime. The only interesting thing here is that leftists has decided Musk is far right wing (he's not, but he does tell them to fuck off) so it's OK to harass him in particular. But the whole construct of replacing gas powered cars with EVs is a lie to start with.

  • On the post: 5th Circuit Does It Again: Puts Yet Another Law Already Deemed Unconstitutional Into Effect With No Explanation

    Matt Bennett ( profile ), 28 Sep, 2023 @ 10:07am

    Yeah, no, disagreeing with you is not "homophobia".

  • On the post: As Net Neutrality Debate Reheats, Remember The Real Problem Is Telecom Monopoly Power

    Matt Bennett ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2023 @ 09:34am

    Please remember the telecom monopolies exist because of gov interference

    It's not a free market because government has stopped it from being a free market. Net neutrality is just more government fucking with the market. But, sidenote, remember when you guys claimed the internet would end cuz net neutrality wasn't enforced? Yeah....good times. Techdirt: being wrong about everything since 2005

  • On the post: Judge Tells Trump Durham Report Doesn’t Prove Hillary Clinton Conspired Against Him To [Squints At 2016] LOSE Election

    Matt Bennett ( profile ), 21 Sep, 2023 @ 09:31am

    It was actually a conspiracy

    Clinton campaign 100% conspired with the FBI to malign Trump, that's been proven, in court in fact. What the fuck are you (and the judge) smoking?

  • On the post: Supreme Court Puts 5th Circuit Ruling On Biden Admin Jawboning Of Social Media Companies On Hold For Shadow Docket Review

    Matt Bennett ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2023 @ 12:50pm

    Sure buddy. Saying something doesn't make it true, sorry. Facts are not on your side.

  • On the post: Supreme Court Puts 5th Circuit Ruling On Biden Admin Jawboning Of Social Media Companies On Hold For Shadow Docket Review

    Matt Bennett ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2023 @ 12:49pm

    Ok most of that was nonsense that I'm not even going to bother to address in detail. Jan 6 wasn't an insurrection and yeah, you can yell "hang mike pence" actually, that's exactly what the 1A means. The court MM was calling "political" was SCOTUS, not the 5th (you seem generally confused here), and no, it shouldn't be political, and yes it is possible not to be, actually. Liberals definitely politicized SCOTUS through second half of the 20th century (Roe v Wade being a good example, that had no basis in law) and that's just being undone now, going back to what the Constitution actually says. Sure, you guys hate that, but that's because what you want was never legal.

    Matthew, being able to inform all stakeholders about matters of national security is not against the law,
    Well first of all it's clear that they very often were not doing that, they were just trying to advance government interests in many cases or remove objections to government propaganda. Secondly, yeah, it is against the law actually, because they were never merely "informing". You're basically just repeating MMs lies in an even more garbled way and it comes off as increasingly insane. The next few years are gonna be real hard for you.

  • On the post: Supreme Court Puts 5th Circuit Ruling On Biden Admin Jawboning Of Social Media Companies On Hold For Shadow Docket Review

    Matt Bennett ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2023 @ 12:39pm

    What an odd thing to say, no one can force anyone to read anything. Nonetheless, you did. And I'm middle aged but have a fantastic head of (grey) hair, thank you very much.

  • On the post: Supreme Court Puts 5th Circuit Ruling On Biden Admin Jawboning Of Social Media Companies On Hold For Shadow Docket Review

    Matt Bennett ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2023 @ 12:36pm

    Your fantasies are fascinating.

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