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  • On the post: Buc-ee’s Billboard Near Beaver’s Mini Mart Vandalized As Corporation Gaslights Mayor

    That One Guy ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2026 @ 01:46am

    Contrary to the saying not all publicity is good publicity

    If the Buc-ee's legal team or execs had any sense they would have cut and run the second the Oliver segment went up because this has become a national if not global issue and the longer this goes on the worse the company looks. Companies spend lavishly on PR and ads because they understand that getting people to have a positive perception of your company/service is just good business and more than pays for itself, nation-wide negative publicity is very much on the other end of the spectrum and you'd think they'd understand how important it is to avoid it but I suppose they've gotten away with their legal thuggery for so long they figure they will here too and aren't thinking about what it's going to do to the brand going forward.

  • On the post: Buc-ee’s Billboard Near Beaver’s Mini Mart Vandalized As Corporation Gaslights Mayor

    That One Guy ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2026 @ 01:39am

    'The CEO of the company filing the trademark lawsuit admits publicly that they don't believe that there is a possibility for customer confusion' does rather seem like a fatal blow to the case given that's one of the core pillars of trademark lawsuits, yeah.

  • On the post: MAGA GOP Keeps Taking Ownership Stakes In Private Companies, Then Warning You The Communists Are Coming

    That One Guy ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2026 @ 10:27pm

    I suppose 'woke' isn't working to fearmonger as well these days?

    I guess we can add 'communist' to the list of 'Empty buzzwords that are just shorthand for 'something republicans don't like'.'

  • On the post: MAGA GOP Keeps Taking Ownership Stakes In Private Companies, Then Warning You The Communists Are Coming

    That One Guy ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2026 @ 10:25pm

    I’m genuinely curious how Republicans who strongly support free-market capitalism justify the government taking ownership stakes in private companies. Two ways to explain that really: 1) They don't actually believe it, they just claim they do because it polls well with MAGAt voters. 2) Like everything else 'Anything is acceptable when a republican does it, nothing is acceptable when a non-republican does it'.

  • On the post: ICE Opportunism Expands To Passengers On Domestic Flights

    That One Guy ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2026 @ 10:15pm

    Oh they might be willing to overlook a potential goon with a brain if they're cruel enough, the real deal-breaking is having a working set of ethics and a conscious.

  • On the post: ICE Opportunism Expands To Passengers On Domestic Flights

    That One Guy ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2026 @ 10:14pm

    Turns out they meant 'be white' the whole time, who knew?

    These days, its masked officers storming hardware store parking lots to grab day laborers, hanging around immigration courts to pick off people just trying to follow the naturalization process, leveraging surveillance tech and government data to find people with un-American surnames, and generally terrorizing entire neighborhoods — if not entire cities — just to satiate this administration’s bigoted bloodlust. And by their choice in targets neatly demolishing the lie that republicans-now-MAGAts said for years that they were perfectly happy with immigration/immigrants, they just wanted them to do it the Right Way(tm).

  • On the post: Even As Disease Outbreaks Abound, American Vaccination Rates In Children Fall

    That One Guy ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2026 @ 09:57pm

    Out of all the industries to do well 'Child-sized coffins' should never rise in the ranks...

    So very many 'parents' undeserving of the title or job doing their damnedest to maim and/or murder their kids, a good many I'm sure because they fell for the debunked and moronic claim linking vaccination to autism and they'd rather their kids be dead than autistic.

  • On the post: FOIA Documents Show Epstein Files Had Flag List Which Included The Term ‘POTUS’

    That One Guy ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2026 @ 09:49pm

    These are not normal circumstances, this is not your regular case

    Assuming every “no comment” is an admission of guilt is as fatuous as assuming everyone who pleads the Fifth is guilty of whatever they’ve been accused of. In normal circumstances? Sure. In this case, where the government has bent over backwards to do everything it can to prevent the release of the files even after congress passed a bill requiring them to do so? No, they deserve no benefit of the doubt here and a 'no comment' should be seen and treated as a damning admission of malicious and/or illegal intent or action.

  • On the post: FOIA Documents Show Epstein Files Had Flag List Which Included The Term ‘POTUS’

    That One Guy ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2026 @ 09:43pm

    One side sees that as undesirable, the other loves it

    When it comes to democrats a credible accusation of sexual misconduct or worse full blow assault is enough to get voters against a candidate or elected official and calling for their removal from office or campaign. When it comes to republicans those same accusations are seen as a positive character trait for republican-now-MAGAt voters, and if anything get them to like the candidate/office holder more.

  • On the post: ICE Is Buying Stun Gloves For Officers Because They’re Just Not Injuring/Killing Enough Migrants

    That One Guy ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2026 @ 01:17pm

    Where have I heard that sort of argument before...

    In 2022, the company called it a “weapon” in Instagram posts. Since then, though, it’s downgraded the language to “a Conductive Distraction and De-escalation device,” branding the technology on its website as “humane.” 'It's not torture, it's enhanced interrogation!'

  • On the post: Pro Se Plaintiff Caught Hiding Prompt Injections In Court Filings; Responds By Hiding More

    That One Guy ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2026 @ 12:53pm

    What would you say you DO here judge?

    I might be more inclined to believe he claim that the intent of sneaking the prompts in was to 'audit' the system had it not been done in a way to bias any potential AI summary in their favor and they doubled-down with 'jokes' when caught, that said I do agree with the general idea even if I'm iffy on the execution. If a judge is going to be lazy enough to offload their work to an AI like that and let it do the reading and summarizing then that's a judge that by their own admission should not have the job, because they're not doing it. When the position granted to you gives you insane amounts of power and authority over the lives of the people that come to you the bare minimum that should be expected is that you do the work to make sure that if challenged you can defend your judgements by pointing to what work went into them rather than having to default to 'the AI told me X so that's what I based by ruling on'.

  • On the post: Flock (Again!) Activates A Camera System A Town Had Voted To Shut Down

    That One Guy ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2026 @ 03:13pm

    'Either you remove the cameras or we're telling the public they can.'

    If the company's going to play it like this then any decision to no longer use the cameras should include a 'Flock has one week to reclaim the cameras and physically remove them, after which they are consider abandoned and the public can do whatever they want with them up to and including taking the cameras or smashing them on the spot so long as they clean up the mess afterwards' clause going forward.

  • On the post: ICE Is Buying Stun Gloves For Officers Because They’re Just Not Injuring/Killing Enough Migrants

    That One Guy ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2026 @ 01:52pm

    If you have to 'remind' people that they're on you're admitting that it's easy to forget/'forget'

    They can call them whatever they want in official documentation but they should be called what they are and will be used as: The electric torture gloves. 'I forgot that the gloves were active when I grabbed the suspect.' 'The suspect was being aggressive and I used the gloves to apply corrective measures until compliance was achieved.' 'I feared for my life and therefore used the gloves in order to protect myself.' And the one I have no doubt they'll be telling each other and laughing about in the locker room... 'I wanted to hear them scream so I starting shocking them and kept doing it until it stopped being funny.'

  • On the post: Donald Trump Just Became The World’s Most Famous Anti-Vaxxer Nonsense Peddler

    That One Guy ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2026 @ 01:51pm

    About that 'legacy'...

    The order is in line with reports that Trump personally promotes the debunked claim that vaccines cause autism and that he wants part of his legacy tied to curing autism. I got some bad news for Trump about his 'legacy' and how history and countless people across the world for decades if not centuries to come will be remembering him in history books and cultural memory... Even 'curing' autism at this point would not be enough to salvage his reputation and legacy from the radioactive cesspit it's currently wallowing in and prevent him from being remembered as the most hated, corrupt and incompetent person to ever sit in the White House.

  • On the post: Ninth Circuit Rewrites Section 230 To Remove The Part That Actually Mattered

    That One Guy ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2026 @ 01:40pm

    For a law supposedly so terrible you'd think there would be ONE honest argument against it...

    What’s incredible, though, is just how confused the panel is about all of this. Judge Jacqueline Nguyen, writing for the court, starts by getting the history of Section 230 wrong: And the streak of 'It is impossible to argue against 230 without lying about the law, what it says, what it does, and how it's been applied' remains unbroken since it's inception.

  • On the post: ‘Trump Said A Thing’ Journalism Must Stop

    That One Guy ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2026 @ 01:03pm

    'We can't show the truth, that would upset rich people!'

    If you want to see a collection of press releases and puff pieces from the rich and/or famous then the mainstream 'news' in the US has got you covered. If you want to actually be informed about what's going on then look elsewhere to the independent groups or even individuals who still believe in journalism and that it doesn't just mean 'print whatever someone tells you without criticism or checking for accuracy.'

  • On the post: Trump Rushes To Stock FCC With Personal Lackeys, Refuses To Seat Dem Commissioners

    That One Guy ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2026 @ 01:00pm

    You can't bluff if you're already showing your cards

    “If President Trump wants to fill these positions, he should do them in a bipartisan way,” Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), the top Democrat on Commerce’s telecom subcommittee, told POLITICO. “I would certainly hope my Republican colleagues on the committee want to see some semblance of balance as well. Because who’s going to be the next president?” I can only assume that Ben Ray has a metal rod keeping them upright given the utter lack of spine on display here as they continue to pretend that everything's just business as normal or that democrats like them would ever take the opportunity to apply republican-turned-MAGAt rules against them if they gained power.

  • On the post: The Fake Free Speech President Has Unleashed ICE On Its Critics

    That One Guy ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2026 @ 12:45pm

    Much like elections the only speech they consider valid is theirs

    Anyone who looks will note that the Trump administration regularly engages in clearly unconstitutional attempts to suppress speech. But because he and his supporters like to claim he’s a free speech supporter, they believe it. It makes perfect sense once you realize that to them the only speech that's deserving of protecting or being allowed is theirs. To them 'free speech' means nothing more or less than 'I should be allowed to say anything I want, wherever I want, without consequence and so should anyone that agrees with me, but no-one else.'

  • On the post: It’s Official: Flock Is For Stalking

    That One Guy ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2026 @ 02:27pm

    Police departments to officers: Want to break some laws? Here's the price sheet...

    Brown was arrested last year and pleaded no contest to a charge of unauthorized use of computers. He was sentenced this month to five years of probation and a $618 fine. A slap on the wrist and a couple hundred dollar fine isn't a penalty it's a price tag.

  • On the post: The Censorship Industrial Complex Didn’t Exist Until The People Who Invented It Took It Over

    That One Guy ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2026 @ 12:08pm

    Consequence-free speech for me, no speech at all for thee

    When it comes to free speech republicans-now-MAGAts have shown without question or doubt that they firmly believe that only them and theirs have a right to speak their minds, that they should be able to say whatever they want wherever they want without consequence, and that any speech that doesn't fall into that narrow category is not and should not be allowed. The whole 'censorship industrial complex' was merely a result of point #2, them facing any pushback whatsoever for anything they said, and what they're doing now is demonstrating point #3.

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