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  • On the post: Bipartisan Senators Want To Honor Charlie Kirk By Making It Easier To Censor The Internet

    That One Guy ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2025 @ 06:56pm

    Just goes to show that just because someone's smart enough to learn and know a bunch about one subject it doesn't mean they can't be blindingly stupid(or dishonest as I suspect) on other subjects.

  • On the post: Book Reports Potentially Copyright Infringing, Thanks To Court Attacks On LLMs

    That One Guy ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2025 @ 06:15pm

    'Oh that book I just read? Yeah I'd tell you about it but I don't want to get sued.'

    'Copyright causes brain damage' example #288,643... There's some messed up irony in a group calling itself the 'Authors Guild' trying to set a legal precedent that stands to gut book sales by killing off a major avenue of promotion, that being fans and word of mouth. Who would risk summing up a book for a review or deconstruction if doing so risks being sued for ruinous amounts over copyright infringement after all? Better and safer to just pretend that the books by anyone associated with the guild simply do not exist.

  • On the post: Trump, Brendan Carr Threaten To Censor Some More Comedians For The Crime Of Comedy

    That One Guy ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2025 @ 04:18pm

    'How dare you speak against the king, off with their head!'

    Which is unfortunate given how even the lightest mainstream jokes about their competency clearly gets under their very thin skin. It's easy to get under someone's skin when it's thin enough that oiled paper is less see-through.

  • On the post: Bipartisan Senators Want To Honor Charlie Kirk By Making It Easier To Censor The Internet

    That One Guy ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2025 @ 04:09pm

    One day an honest and fact-based argument may be made, but not yet

    And the streak remains unbroken, yet again it is shown that it is impossible to argue against 230 honestly, factually, or based upon what the gorram law says or does. Like so many politicians who want to gut Section 230, Kelly and Curtis clearly don’t understand how it actually works. Their “Algorithm Accountability Act” would create exactly the kind of censorship regime they claim to oppose. Both of them are full grown adults who have access to any number of experts on this or any other subject at their fingertips. To the extent that they 'don't understand how it works'(rather than just are lying about it) I've no doubt whatsoever that that's entirely deliberate on their part. If they truly don't understand 230 that's because they don't want to understand how it works and what it says.

  • On the post: Bipartisan Senators Want To Honor Charlie Kirk By Making It Easier To Censor The Internet

    That One Guy ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2025 @ 04:01pm

    'That's no pro-violence that's just locker-room talk!'

    Only if it was applied honestly and equally, and if there's one thing you can be sure of it's that MAGAts consider a law to only be valid when it's working in their favor.

  • On the post: DOJ Memo Says It Won’t Prosecute US Troops No Matter How Illegal Trump’s Boat Strike Program Is

    That One Guy ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2025 @ 03:52pm

    Unconvicted murderers are still murderers

    And now it’s telling those who might be first against the wall if and when it all falls apart that they don’t need to worry about being murderers because, at the very least, any DOJ run by Trump or one his successor puppets will never treat them like the accomplices they are. On the contrary, the 'memo' may suggest that they don't need to worry about being charged for murder but they'll still be murderers nonetheless. Just because someone isn't charged or found guilty of something in a court of law(military or otherwise) doesn't mean they didn't commit the action.

  • On the post: NY Times Runs Defense For Social Media Bans, Buries Evidence They Don’t Work Until Paragraph 14

    That One Guy ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2025 @ 03:20pm

    'Ooga booga be afraid! And buy our stuff telling you to be afraid!'

    Ultimately when you don't have any principles and only care about the bottom line what matters is that fear and panic sells, and if there isn't anything real that people should be frightened of that's where fearmongering, dishonesty or outright lies come into place.

  • On the post: Investigation Shows Trump’s Boat Strikes Aren’t Killing ‘Narco-Terrorists’

    That One Guy ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2025 @ 03:33pm

    Even if you set aside Trump and the critical damage that's been and is continuing to be done to government agencies and the rule of law you'd still have the tens of millions of people who put him into office after seeing what a disaster he was the first time just waiting to do it again, so no, it's going to rightly take a long time before the rest of the world can or should trust the US again even after the regime is no longer in power and trashing the country.

  • On the post: Investigation Shows Trump’s Boat Strikes Aren’t Killing ‘Narco-Terrorists’

    That One Guy ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2025 @ 01:28pm

    Not so much unaware as 'refuses to', as if they called in the Coast Guard they wouldn't get to murder the entire boatload of people and that would take all the fun out of it.

  • On the post: Furloughed Employees Sue Administration For Adding Partisan Wording To Their Out-Of-Office Messages

    That One Guy ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2025 @ 08:03pm

    Fair enough, if the last election showed anything it's that a majority of voting-age americans are profoundly stupid and easy to dupe and manipulate.

  • On the post: Investigation Shows Trump’s Boat Strikes Aren’t Killing ‘Narco-Terrorists’

    That One Guy ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2025 @ 08:02pm

    They WANT death and violence and aren't too picky as to who

    The messed up thing is if they aren't already hoping for that to happen I've no doubt whatsoever that while publicly the regime would condemn such 'cold-blooded murder of americans' in private they would be cheering and laughing at being handed an excuse to engage in even more brutality and power-grabs.

  • On the post: Judge Dismisses Bullshit Lawsuit Claiming Pollster Committed Fraud By Being Wrong

    That One Guy ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2025 @ 04:19pm

    Fraudulent lawsuits should hurt more than their victims

    Another perfect example of the necessity of strong and comprehensive state and federal anti-SLAPP laws(and a perfect example of why the US doesn't have those), as these lawsuits are clearly designed to stop anyone from reporting anything that Trump doesn't like because if 'Predicted the wrong candidate would win' is grounds for a lawsuit anything is.

  • On the post: Investigation Shows Trump’s Boat Strikes Aren’t Killing ‘Narco-Terrorists’

    That One Guy ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2025 @ 04:07pm

    If accused criminals don't have rights no-one does

    For those cheering on the murder on the high seas because the regime asserts that those killed are the most heinous criminals(not working for the regime) imaginable despite acknowledging that they don't have the evidence to actually prove that in court, something to keep in mind: Fascist and/or dictatorial systems always need an Other to 'punish', a group to heap all the blame on for everything that goes wrong and when the current one starts becoming less effective they'll look for a new one and when the exterior choices start getting sparse they'll start looking inwards. Sure you support the regime, but do you absolutely support it? Sure you show your loyalty but do you show it enough? Systems like that are built upon always having someone to blame and victimize, and given enough time they will always start going after their own to maintain themselves. Always.

  • On the post: Sinclair Broadcasting Posts Huge Quarterly Loss After Jimmy Kimmel Censorship

    That One Guy ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2025 @ 03:01pm

    A journalist who doesn't ask questions and just repeats what they're told uncritically is not a journalist, they're a stenographer or unpaid PR agent.

  • On the post: A Love Letter To America

    That One Guy ( profile ), 14 Nov, 2025 @ 02:53pm

    ... that was the point. I was intentionally whitewashing slavery to make it seem 'good' to match the rhetoric of those that would see away with those inconvenient 'democracy' and 'rights' in favor of authoritarian/fascist rule by a select few, and who argue against democracy and rights by claiming that they just get in the way of a more efficient government that Gets Stuff Done(tm).

  • On the post: Cowardice And Capitulation At Cornell

    That One Guy ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2025 @ 07:11pm

    What fictional people do you imagine are going to be paying the regime $30 million, handing over 'anonymized' student data on the regular and adding in the regime's 'training materials' and how do you picture none of that impacting the school and those going/teaching there? (As an aside if you really think this will be the last of the regime's demands after Cornell folded like wet cardboard and chose the path of appeasement I've got some amazing beach-front lunar property I'd like to sell you.)

  • On the post: A Love Letter To America

    That One Guy ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2025 @ 03:24pm

    'You have the freedom to work for my gain and say what I tell you to. Don't you feel free?'

    Balderdash, I'm sure the ones trying to convince others to give up that silly 'democracy' and let their betters do the thinking for them would never lie about what the result of that would mean for those they're taking the burdens of thought and choice from.

  • On the post: Conservative Judge Resigns Rather Than Stay Silent On Trump’s Constitutional Assault

    That One Guy ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2025 @ 02:46pm

    When your house is on fire a discussion about the merits of one computer or ISP over another becomes a luxury. I'm sure the writers for TD would love to go back to covering tech-centric issues, but right now they and millions of others have got bigger things to worry about.

  • On the post: A Love Letter To America

    That One Guy ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2025 @ 02:43pm

    They may promise to rule wisely, but they still plan to rule

    A slave has very little to worry about when you think about it. Someone else provides their housing, someone else makes sure there's food on the table, someone else takes care of all that pesky 'thinking' by taking away the burdensome questions like 'What job do I do?' and 'What's the meaning of my life?' A slave has very little to worry about, and all it costs is giving up those pesky 'freedom' and 'independence' to people who assured them and themselves that they know better and will handle all that tricky stuff for them, and sure maybe things work out more for the slave-owner than the slave but isn't that a just payment for them taking up the real burdens?

  • On the post: Sinclair Broadcasting Posts Huge Quarterly Loss After Jimmy Kimmel Censorship

    That One Guy ( profile ), 13 Nov, 2025 @ 02:13pm

    'The only good regulation is a republican written regulation!'

    Republicans: Regulations are a bane of existence and have no business in a free and fair market! Also republicans: This other company is doing something I don't like and/or hurting my/my company's profits, regulate it so it can't do that any more!

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