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  • On the post: Trump Administration Tries To Rein In RFK Jr. As A Midterms Liability

    That One Guy ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2026 @ 08:54pm

    'What more do you people want from us?!'

    Trump regime: 'Okay the house has been burned to the ground, the people that were in it are all charred bodies and we're keeping the 'Fire is actually super healthy for the human body'-pyromaniac who lit the house on fire as the head of the fire department, but we're putting someone in place to advise that he not burn the next house down so problem solved and stop blaming us for putting him in charge of the fire department to begin with!'

  • On the post: Court Says Pentagon Can’t Pick And Choose Which News Outlets Have Access

    That One Guy ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2026 @ 08:40pm

    'We can be lied to without even leaving the house, why waste the gas?'

    If the press outlets really wanted to twist the knife when it goes to the US supreme court and should they side with the first amendment over the regime it would be just perfect if they took that win and published an open statement that they'll keep it in mind for later but currently there's no point in sending reporters to an event where they'll just be lied to any time they ask a question.

  • On the post: Bernie Sanders “Interviewed” A Chatbot To Expose AI’s Secrets. It Has No Secrets. It Just Agrees With You.

    That One Guy ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2026 @ 07:52pm

    'You want someone like THAT to regulate our industry? He doesn't know squat about it!'

    The kicker is that with this performative nonsense Bernie Sanders just made it so much easier for the pro-AI people to dismiss any critics of the tech or any attempt to regulate the tech, as if a well known politician is going to make a fool out of himself and then try to frame it as a 'gotcha' it makes it way easier to just frame them as ignorant people who don't know what they're talking about, something that sadly in this case would seem to be entirely accurate.

  • On the post: Greater Than Zero: The Anti-AI Pushback On Gaming Preservation Efforts Makes No Sense

    That One Guy ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2026 @ 05:48pm

    'As the people currently funding this project what's your thoughts on using AI?'

    If you're currently doing something and getting funding via a patronage model to do so and it occurs to you to maybe involve AI in the process the next step after that should be asking those funding you if they'd be open to that. With it's currently not-great/toxic reputation jumping straight to using AI and only telling people after the fact is practically begging the whole thing to blow up in your face, just like happened here, and if they'd told their backers before pulling that trigger they might have been able to avoid the mess or at least significantly reduce it.

  • On the post: Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban Is Just Training A Generation In The Art Of The Workaround

    That One Guy ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2026 @ 05:03pm

    'The boy who cried wolf' on a national level

    Hmm, yes and no I'd say. Getting the next generation to have a healthy amount of skepticism towards the government and not just take whatever it says at face value is probably a net good, but if the government burns it's reputation too much then should a legitimate major issue crop up(like say a pandemic, whether global or country-wide) people are less likely to listen when actual experts are giving advice that is being presented in good faith, and are instead more likely to listen to frauds and grifters which is a worse outcome for everyone but said frauds and grifters.

  • On the post: Fifth Circuit: Actually, Putting The Ten Commandments In Schools Is Probably Fine

    That One Guy ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2026 @ 04:53pm

    Every accusation a confession, every self-given label a rejection of.

    If Jesus showed up in the current US he'd be kidnapped by the US gestapo within a week and the 'hardcore christian MAGAts' would be making videos mocking the 'woke lib' they tossed in a cell and openly laughing at the thought of him being shipped off to a foreign country to be tortured.

  • On the post: A Model For HHS: New Mexico Measles Outbreak Was Curtailed With Mass Vaccination Campaign

    That One Guy ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2026 @ 04:46pm

    Imagine that, if you prioritize lives over performative politics it results in less infected and dead.

  • On the post: Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban Is Just Training A Generation In The Art Of The Workaround

    That One Guy ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2026 @ 06:58pm

    'We're trying to help you, why don't you trust us?!'

    Meanwhile, the vast majority of kids — the ones the ban was supposedly protecting — just learned to route around it. Rather than learning responsible usage and digital literacy, they learned that age verification systems are obstacles to be defeated… which, congratulations, is probably the single least useful lesson you could teach a teenager about their relationship with technology. Actually, it’s worse: Australian adults now have a false sense of security — the comfortable belief that they’ve magically protected kids from the evils of the internet. I'd argue that there's a third result that made things worse in that the kids impacted were just shown that those in charge of the government not only don't know what the hell they're doing but cannot be trusted to act in good faith at least when it comes to them. Nothing like priming the next generation to distrust you to dramatically increase the odds that the next time a major problem pops up they'll be less likely to believe your advice, resulting in a worse outcome for everyone.

  • On the post: Black Man Shot By Cops Dies After White Cop Suffering An ‘Anxiety Attack’ Snags Ambulance

    That One Guy ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2026 @ 06:48pm

    'No-one is more dangerous than someone trying to get away!'

    Dyshan Best, 39, was shot in the back last year as he fled from officers in Bridgeport, Connecticut. A report released Tuesday by the state’s inspector general found that the shooting was justified because Best had a gun in his hand and the officer pursuing him had reasons to fear for his own safety. 'They were running away from me, of course I feared for my life and opened fire!' These days 'I feared for my life' when used by cops might as well be translated directly to 'I wanted an excuse to murder someone and get away with it.'

  • On the post: Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control

    That One Guy ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2026 @ 06:04pm

    99.9% giving the rest a bad name

    Not every politician or group that attempts to justify and defend their actions and goals under the guise of 'We must Protect The Children(tm)!' is merely using and exploiting children as nothing more than tools to make unchallengable that which would otherwise be indefensible, but if you assume that any given attempt is just that you'll be right more often than not. Age-gating is not and never has been about keeping porn out of the hands of kids, that's the job of their parents, it's about attempting to control speech and behavior that are legal and would otherwise be out of the control of those pushing such measures, something they give away with disturbing regularity when you look at just what they don't consider 'suitable for children' and how often it includes 'any positive portrayal of non-CIS/straight/white characters'.

  • On the post: Fifth Circuit: Actually, Putting The Ten Commandments In Schools Is Probably Fine

    That One Guy ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2026 @ 05:05pm

    Bold of you to assume they actually know what's in the ten commandments or would care even if they did. The only reason they want to force them into schools is because, much like the rest of the bible that they also don't care about they want to use it as a bludgeon against those that don't agree with them.

  • On the post: Fifth Circuit: Actually, Putting The Ten Commandments In Schools Is Probably Fine

    That One Guy ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2026 @ 04:56pm

    'The first amendment only applies when and how it benefits us!'

    Another ruling by the second most openly corrupt court in the US that positively screams 'Come up with desired outcome first, work backwards for excuses to justify it second.' When you have to openly ignore what the law's own writers and supporters say it's meant to do in order to pretend that there's no way to know what the outcome may be if it's allowed to go into effect it's crystal clear that you're not acting in good faith.

  • On the post: The Jehovah’s Witnesses Are Back Abusing Copyright Law To Unmask Their Critics. Again.

    That One Guy ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2026 @ 01:52pm

    Thanks for the laugh person-who-is-most-certainly-NOT-a-JW-member

    You don't need to ask for commentary from a group when their actions have already said more than words could. They fought in court for anonymity for their own members and then as soon as someone says or posts something that they don't like they issue bogus DMCA claims to find out who that person is under the guise of 'copyright enforcement' that never materializes(funny that), showing that when it comes to anonymous speech they're world-class hypocrites.

  • On the post: The Jehovah’s Witnesses Are Back Abusing Copyright Law To Unmask Their Critics. Again.

    That One Guy ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2026 @ 01:45pm

    Do what I say, not what I do

    Which makes the history here so galling. The Jehovah’s Witnesses have one of the most impressive First Amendment track records of any organization in American legal history. Starting with Lovell v. City of Griffin in 1938, they brought a string of landmark cases establishing core free speech protections that benefit all of us today. They fought for the right to go door-to-door without identifying themselves, and against compelled speech. Watch Tower’s own in-house counsel, Paul Polidoro — the same lawyer who has been issuing many of these DMCA subpoenas — successfully argued before the Supreme Court for the right of Jehovah’s Witnesses to speak anonymously. By their actions they make clear that they don't actually support free speech and the associated anonymous speech that can be so vital to it no matter what they might argue in court, they merely believe that they should be able to speak anonymously when it comes to pushing the organization's goals.

  • On the post: White South Africans would Rather Live In South Africa Than In The US Under Trump

    That One Guy ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2026 @ 12:05pm

    Now where did I put that nano-violin, I feel a song coming on...

    Came to the US expecting it to be a white privilege paradise ran by a openly racist regime, somehow missed that while skin color is important how wealthy you are is even more so, because poor white people are getting screwed right alongside poor people of color.

  • On the post: Afroman Wins: Jury Rules Mocking Cops Who Raided Your Home Is Protected Speech

    That One Guy ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2026 @ 11:47am

    'How dare he describe us as exactly as we are?!'

    If you don't want to be publicly mocked and made a nation-wide laughing-stock for your unprofessional and questionably-legal behavior the solution is real damn simple: Act like professionals who respect the law.

  • On the post: Turns Out The DOGE Bros Who Killed Humanities Grants Are Kinda Sensitive About It

    That One Guy ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2026 @ 03:17pm

    Humankind to them is only white humankind, because they are simultaneously masters of the world and the most downtrodden victims. They really did slip up and say the quiet part out loud there didn't they. Why would learning about anti-black violence not be to the benefit of humankind. Fox: That’s not what I’m saying. Okay, then what are you saying? Fox: I’m saying it relates to diversity, equity, and inclusion. You said it’s not to the benefit of humankind. Right? Fox: Is that what I said? [Laughs] Yeah. Translation: 'The only people worth learning about are the white people.'

  • On the post: A Reddit Post, An AI Hallucination, And Two Lawyers Who Never Checked Citations Walk Into A Dog Custody Case

    That One Guy ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2026 @ 03:10pm

    Hypocrisy strong enough to build on, yeah. If signing your name to a legal order that contains a fictional legal case and citations to it is grounds for a penalty then the judge deserves to be penalized just as much as the lawyer and for the same reason since both just assumed that the case was legit when they signed their name to their respective papers.

  • On the post: A Reddit Post, An AI Hallucination, And Two Lawyers Who Never Checked Citations Walk Into A Dog Custody Case

    That One Guy ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2026 @ 03:00pm

    If you can't do the work of a lawyer you shouldn't be one

    Given how badly they can screw things up for people at this point getting caught using AI to do your legal research as a lawyer should be treated as an instant loss of your case at a minimum, along with a nudge toward the state bar to check out your legal credentials because you clearly aren't qualified to hold them.

  • On the post: Microsoft Locks Down Discord Server After People Wouldn’t Stop Making Fun Of AI ‘Microslop’

    That One Guy ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2026 @ 01:06pm

    So out of touch they might as well be on another planet

    The public: AI is garbage so no we don't want it crowbarred into everything we use and do! Microsoft: Am I in the wrong in trying to force AI into everything when the public has made clear that they are only growing more hateful of it both as a product and concept...? No, no the public is wrong.

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