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  • On the post: Government Lawyers Say Trump Admin Can Use TikTok Again Because ‘Owned’ No Longer Means ‘Owned’

    That One Guy ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2026 @ 07:55am

    Words don't mean words

    I mean, this is the same lot that argues that the constitutional amendment regarding who gets and has citizenship is 'unclear' despite it being about as clear-cut as possible, so 'the law doesn't say what it says since a plain reading doesn't agree with what we want' is pretty on brand for them.

  • On the post: Government Lawyers Say Trump Admin Can Use TikTok Again Because ‘Owned’ No Longer Means ‘Owned’

    That One Guy ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2026 @ 07:51am

    'It's such a hassle carrying TWO phones, I can just use the one for both...'

    Ah but that's the trick, they are. I have no doubt that those in the regime and especially the one at the top treat 'official government device' and 'personal device' interchangeably because employing basic security is 'woke'.

  • On the post: Brendan Carr Lobs More Empty Threats At ABC For Not Airing Trump’s Election Fraud Lies

    That One Guy ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2026 @ 07:44am

    Wonder if there's a phrase, maybe a whole poem about that...

    When it comes to ABC, that’s still been embarrassingly effective. The company agreed to pay Trump a $16 million bribe in 2024 to settle a baseless lawsuit the company easily could have won. And more recently, ABC shows like The View have shied away from hosting any political candidates at all for risk of upsetting Trump. Carr and the regime at large keep threatening them because it has a demonstrable history of working. They tried the route of appeasement early on and learned the hard way that grovelling subservience just gets them more threats and beatings, not less.

  • On the post: Tom Homan Again Promises That ICE Will Keep Murdering People Until Democrats Stop Calling Them Murderers

    That One Guy ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2026 @ 07:36pm

    'Why did you MAKE me do this?!' -The motto of abusers throughout history

    No different than an abusive husband who defends his actions as they relate to his bloody and battered wife by claiming that the people calling him abusive made him act that way and the wife had it coming in any case for not doing what she was told.

  • On the post: JK Rowling Threatens To Sue Amnesty International Into Oblivion For Expressing An Opinion About A Charity She Funds

    That One Guy ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2026 @ 09:04pm

    I'm not familiar enough with her to say either way honestly, I was merely agreeing with Thad's point that if the source of a person's wealth is from their creativity, making something that people genuinely want(as opposed to need) then it's not impossible that they could potentially reach that point without going full sociopath/psychopath, even if I'd also be inclined to say that the odds are likely damn low and just get lower the richer they get.

  • On the post: Ken Paxton Vowed To Crack Down On “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.

    That One Guy ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2026 @ 03:19pm

    'If it's not a vote for a republican it shouldn't count'

    The republican obsession with preventing or stopping 'illegal/fraudulent' voting despite never being able to point to any significant amount of it makes a lot more sense when you realize that to them 'any vote that isn't for a republican candidate' falls into that category.

  • On the post: The Good & The Bad In Erica Schwartz’s Confirmation Hearings To Lead CDC

    That One Guy ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2026 @ 02:51pm

    Sometimes silence says more than words

    If she's not even willing to say that she'll push back on RFK Jr's insanity I find it near impossible to believe that she'll do it should she get the job. Would I love to be proven wrong on this? Absolutely. Do I expect that I'll be proven wrong after reading such weak non-answers that are answers in themselves? Nope.

  • On the post: The Documents Trump Declassified To Blame China For The 2020 Election… Actually Show Russia Was The One Meddling For Him

    That One Guy ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2026 @ 02:41pm

    I mean it's not like there's an example of something like that happening right now or anything...

  • On the post: JK Rowling Threatens To Sue Amnesty International Into Oblivion For Expressing An Opinion About A Charity She Funds

    That One Guy ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2026 @ 02:22pm

    Sheer poppycock

    Nonsense, what could possibly be harmful about, just as a totally unrealistic hypothetical that would not and could not ever happen, genitalia-obsessed perverts harassing CIS women/kids who aren't 'feminine' enough for them when those women are trying to use the bathroom or existing?

  • On the post: JK Rowling Threatens To Sue Amnesty International Into Oblivion For Expressing An Opinion About A Charity She Funds

    That One Guy ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2026 @ 01:09pm

    A fair point, perhaps it would be more accurate for me to say that it's not impossible to get that rich without being a psychopath/sociopath, it's just very unlikely since it's much easier to gain that much money by being one as opposed to lucking out via another route like being creative and making something a ton of people want to buy.

  • On the post: JK Rowling Threatens To Sue Amnesty International Into Oblivion For Expressing An Opinion About A Charity She Funds

    That One Guy ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2026 @ 01:03pm

    Hate is one hell of a drug, and it's victims show just how corrosive and harmful it is both for the addicts and those around them on a daily basis.

  • On the post: JK Rowling Threatens To Sue Amnesty International Into Oblivion For Expressing An Opinion About A Charity She Funds

    That One Guy ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2026 @ 11:36am

    No-one exploits that many people and stays a good person

    In addition to what Stephen notes about power revealing someone's character rather than corrupting it it might also be a matter of selection bias, in that to get that rich you basically have to be a sociopath/psychopath who sees anyone other than you as nothing more than disposable tools to be used and discarded once no longer needed, with the result that those that don't have that 'trait' simply never get that rich.

  • On the post: JK Rowling Threatens To Sue Amnesty International Into Oblivion For Expressing An Opinion About A Charity She Funds

    That One Guy ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2026 @ 11:33am

    That venn diagram is just a single circle

    What a shocking revelation that such a vile bigot also falls into the group of 'I support free speech for all, by which I mean everyone should have the right to say they agree with me!' lot that loudly proclaim themselves to be 'free speech supporters'. As the 'I will fund anyone who wants to try to bankrupt Amnesty International' offer makes clear it was a terrible move to try the route of attempting to appease the rampant bigot that is JK Rowling by taking the article down but hopefully Amnesty International at least has the spine/intelligence to refuse to issue the demanded 'apology' for calling her out on her bigotry and instead issues a public statement that points out why they rightly gave her and the other 'charities' that label.

  • On the post: The Documents Trump Declassified To Blame China For The 2020 Election… Actually Show Russia Was The One Meddling For Him

    That One Guy ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2026 @ 11:08am

    It's crazy to think that the regime would get less skillful in crafting their propaganda and selective information releases as time goes by but I suppose when your cult is headed by a petulant toddler in a suit with a penchant for firing anyone who tells him he's wrong and/or should really do something a different way that's the inevitable result.

  • On the post: The Documents Trump Declassified To Blame China For The 2020 Election… Actually Show Russia Was The One Meddling For Him

    That One Guy ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2026 @ 10:58am

    Trump may be great for giving other countries like china the opportunity to swoop in and replace the US when it ditches foreign aid programs but when it comes to things like international trade and stable economies... not so much, and those are kinda important to large countries and governments.

  • On the post: The Documents Trump Declassified To Blame China For The 2020 Election… Actually Show Russia Was The One Meddling For Him

    That One Guy ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2026 @ 10:53am

    Sometimes what you hide is more important than what you reveal

    If the parts of the document that weren't redacted so clearly show that russia, not china, was actively trying to rig the election in Trump's favor I'd say it's a pretty good assumption that the parts that are redacted must be so much more damning in showing just how much russia's finger was on the scale and trying to tip it.

  • On the post: Sony Deletes A Bunch More Movies From The Accounts Of People Who ‘Bought’ Them

    That One Guy ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2026 @ 08:36pm

    'If they can do that to movies, what's to stop them from doing it with games...'

    Of all the times for Sony to remind it's customers that 'purchased' digital content can be taken back and nary a cent of refund money will be given in recompense shortly after the company kicked off a PR debacle by telling people that they were ditching physical media and going entirely digital for their game systems is probably not the best timing...

  • On the post: To Dodge A Fight With Trump, Law Firms Cut Deals. Now The Deals Are Creating A Fight With Trump.

    That One Guy ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2026 @ 08:06pm

    Who wants to hire a spineless loser?

    Even if I believed the claim that they haven't faced any serious consequences from publicly humiliating themselves by kissing the ring(no, they wish it was that one...) rather than fighting back against the demonstrably fraudulent threats the fact remains that they've tainted their reputation for years if not decades to come when it comes to the very group most likely to hire them: Rich companies or individuals facing legal action from the government. What person or company is going to hire a law firm with a very visible track record of folding the second any pressure is put upon them, government or otherwise, when there's firms out there that didn't immediately cave and start grovelling and instead showed that they can and will fight back against even the government?

  • On the post: Paramount Falsely Threatens To Leave California After State Challenges Merger

    That One Guy ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2026 @ 10:48am

    'If you try to force me to pay taxes I'll leave and you'll get no taxes from me!'

    It always amuses me to see companies and/or rich people threaten to leave like this because scratch the surface and what they're basically saying is that if the state tries to force them to follow the same laws and/or rules as everyone else they'll take their ball and go home, hoping desperately that you ignore that maybe there's a reason they set up shop in that state/city to begin with.

  • On the post: FCC General Counsel Channels Founding Fathers To Falsely Claim First Amendment Allows Banning Porn

    That One Guy ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2026 @ 02:04pm

    Wonder what the founding fathers would think about a president who acts like he's a king?

    If they really want to take the 'the founding fathers were against porn so it's acceptable to ban it' route then I'm pretty sure the founding fathers would have much bigger objections to a number of things the regime is doing than they would pictures or videos naked people doing consentual but unspeakable things to each other. This is exceptionally problematic for two reasons. First, Candeub works for the FCC and is backing a legal strategy that’s been used, historically, to aggressively prosecute women, LGBTQ+ individuals, entire communities of color, consensual sex workers, and pornographic and non-pornographic publishers for their speech. .. Second, Candeub’s advocacy in this report and column conforms to Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation’s call for the prosecution of “pornographers” who spread “the toxic normalization of transgenderism with drag queens and pornography.” And therein lies the core of the issue: It's never actually about the porn. Porn is and always has been merely the excuse to censor speech that the ones proposing the regulations or laws want to be censored but know that they can't thanks to that pesky 'first amendment', obscenities like 'people that aren't straight, white CIS-men exist, are humans deserving of human dignity and rights, and have accomplished worthwhile things deserving of recognition and credit'.

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