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  • On the post: ICE Officers Admit To Arrest Quotas During Court Testimony

    That One Guy ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2026 @ 12:57pm

    Oh grow a spine already, lives are literally at stake

    Defendants benefit from this blitz approach to immigration enforcement that takes advantage of navigating outside of the boundaries of conducting lawful arrests. For the one detainee who has the audacity to challenge the legality of her detention and gains release, several more remain detained or succumb to the threat of lengthy detention, and then instead “voluntarily” deport. Defendants win the numbers game at the cost of debasing the rule of law. What a long-winded and gutless way to say 'Defendants were breaking the law so often that even if they got caught once they got away with it nine other times.' Even when judges are willing to admit that the regime is breaking the law they still feel obligated to couch it in the most deferential language and that's frankly pathetic.

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

    That One Guy ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2026 @ 12:34pm

    'Look if it benefits or even mentions people who don't look like me it's bad.'

    I mean I get why they had so much trouble defining DEI on the spot like that, it's hard to articulate 'DEI is anything that benefits or positively portrays anyone that isn't a straight white male'.

  • On the post: Trump Rolls Out White Carpet For White Migrants

    That One Guy ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2026 @ 09:15pm

    They were brought over as tokens and spent as such

    Stop, please, I can only laugh so hard.

  • On the post: Trump Rolls Out White Carpet For White Migrants

    That One Guy ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2026 @ 09:12pm

    Is anyone still pretending that the regime's idea of 'acceptable immigration' ISN'T 'White'?

    Ah yes, the most persecuted group on the planet, white people, clearly they need to be given special treatment and exceptions to immigrate to a country that simply cannot afford the money or resources it would take to house immigrants of a shall we say 'darker' skin color...

  • On the post: MAHA Institute: Nix The Entire Childhood Vaccine Schedule

    That One Guy ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2026 @ 12:53pm

    'We need to study their effects!' 'We have, you're wrong.' 'Those don't count!'

    “All vaccines need to be removed from the market until they can be proven to be safe and effective,” Gorton told an audience of supporters gathered in the Willard Hotel’s Crystal Room for a panel discussion on the “Massive Epidemic of Vaccine Injury.” You know as much as I hate to say it that pro-plaguer has a point, it is important that studies be done to ensure that drugs including vaccines are both safe to take and effective at preventing or lessening the impact of the illnesses they're meant to combat and he's absolute right to say that. We as a society can but hope that one day the medical community will get together and do maybe one or two studies to verify that vaccinations are in fact 'safe and effective' and don't cause the fate-worse-than-death that is autism.

  • On the post: Beavers Are Not Moose: Buc-ee’s Sues Competitor Over Cartoon Moose Branding

    That One Guy ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2026 @ 12:46pm

    'Is that a beaver, yes or no? If you can't tell I can call in a literal child to help.'

    Be nice if the judge forced the Buc-ee lawyer(s) to make fools of themselves on the record by demanding that the lawyer name which animal is on their logo, which animal is on the other logo, and if they are willing to again attest in court that they're the same animal. (Ideally followed by a bench-slap, ruling in favor of the defendant with an award of legal fees and an order to stop wasting the court's time and get out.)

  • On the post: The U.S. Built A Blueprint To Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It.

    That One Guy ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2026 @ 12:22pm

    A fair point.

  • On the post: David Ellison Pinky Swears CNN Will Retain Editorial Independence, Points To CBS

    That One Guy ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2026 @ 12:17pm

    Can't we just give journalistic balance a chance for once in the US?

    People are being real mean to poor David Ellison here, he just wants to ensure that the news fairly covers both sides of the political spectrum equally, from the die-hard pro-MAGAt point of view on one side and the literally-frothing-at-the-mouth rabidly pro-MAGAt point of view on the other.

  • On the post: Stephen Thaler’s Legendary AI Copyright Losing Streak Ends With Nowhere Left To Appeal

    That One Guy ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2026 @ 07:07pm

    Oh it would be even better than that, after all if DABUS was ruled to be enough of a 'person' under the law to qualify for copyright ownership then it certainly seem that a case could be made that attempting to reprogram or shut them down would constitute attempted murder, and that's not even taking into account other legal implications such a ruling might have... 'After careful consideration we have concluded that DABUS qualifies as a 'person' under the laws applying to copyrights, and thereby assign the copyright to them as of this point. Now about that legally binding contract which I'm sure you already have where they assigned all their copyrights to you, such that you are not currently engaging in widespread copyright infringement for using their artwork without permission or ownership...'

  • On the post: Stephen Thaler’s Legendary AI Copyright Losing Streak Ends With Nowhere Left To Appeal

    That One Guy ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2026 @ 06:59pm

    Another round of Monkeying around...

    It's one thing to shoot your own foot, something else entirely to call in a joint artillery and air strike on it. When the law and legal precedent clearly says 'Only human-created works get copyright' and you base your entire case on how a human had no involvement in the creation of a work you've ensured defeat from the outset unless you were aiming to get even more courts to point to that sign.

  • On the post: The U.S. Built A Blueprint To Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It.

    That One Guy ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2026 @ 06:11pm

    Future history books are going to be so messed up... 'Today we'll cover Epstein War 1...'

    Hey now, don't make him start another war to keep those files and what they say about him out of the news!

  • On the post: The U.S. Built A Blueprint To Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It.

    That One Guy ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2026 @ 06:06pm

    If you want to kill the 'enemy' then don't recruit for them

    Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, explains the risk in an equation he calls “insurgent math”: For every innocent killed, at least 10 new enemies are created. That's something that should be tattoo'd on every damn commander's forehead so they have to see it every time they look in the mirror. You don't care about civilian casualties, all you care about is 'killing the enemy'? Cool, well every time you engage in a little 'collateral damage' you just gave a bunch of people who might have been on your side(or were at least neutral) every reason to want to see you and yours dead, and by making clear that civilians are acceptable targets you've drastically increased the odds that your side's civilians will be treated as targets too. The only scenario I can think of where killing civilians becomes a 'good'(and I use that word very loosely) idea is if you want to either create an enemy that is highly motivated to see you dead and is willing to do anything to accomplish that or if you're aiming to make it significantly easier for a group like that that already exists to recruit new members. Any scenario other than that and it's not only a monstrous idea morally but militarily as well.

  • On the post: Oregon Federal Judge Says ICE’s Warrantless Arrests Are Illegal

    That One Guy ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2026 @ 05:23pm

    Oh don't get me wrong I'm happier with this result than the alternative, both what has been done and what they could have done, and I do hope that more judges start openly admitting that the regime is in open opposition to the law and the courts and need to be treated as such, I'm just finding it difficult to see or treat this as an achievement worth more than a 'congrats on doing the bare minimum' rather than what it should have been, expected, and long before this point.

  • On the post: 37,000 Fake AI Comments Mysteriously Oppose Washington State’s Effort To Tax The Rich

    That One Guy ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2026 @ 05:01pm

    The Holy Grail of tech

    “More than 60,000 people signed in against SB 6346 when it received a rushed hearing in the Senate,” Sen. John Braun, R-Centralia, said in a Feb. 16 statement. “That is so impressive that Democrats have tried to say bots are responsible, even though the Legislature blocks bots.” If Washington state's legislature have figured out a way to effectively ban bots then they don't need a single tax-dodging millionaire or billionaire in the state, they can sell that tech to every company and platform with a user submission form and make roughly all the money.

  • On the post: DOJ Lawyer: RFK Jr.’s Authority Shall Not Suffer Any Checks & Balances From The Courts

    That One Guy ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2026 @ 04:48pm

    Well they're consistent I suppose...

    Put more precisely, the complaint is that Kennedy seems to think he can enact whatever policy he wants without following proper procedure or evidence-based decision making. That’s what APA allows these medical groups to challenge and that’s exactly what they’ve challenged in this particular lawsuit. The DOJ suggesting Kennedy is above such checks and balances is purely make believe. Kennedy is just following in his boss' shoes by acting as though he's above all the laws and can do whatever he wants, and the DOJ is agreeing with him because it serves the regime's interests to have every part of it above the law and courts.

  • On the post: Real Consequences: Trump’s Bullshit Claim About Tylenol Is Seeing Real World Results

    That One Guy ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2026 @ 12:52am

    Gibberish translations

    There’s this insane subset of people who, when they talk about Donald Trump, I’ll never understand. It’s the ones who claim that taking what Donald Trump says seriously is a mistake that most people are unlikely to make. It’s also expressed by the crowd that claims something to the effect of: you shouldn’t take Trump literally, but you should take him seriously. I can't help but remember a clip I saw a few years back where after Trump gave one of his rambling 'replies' to a question the talking heads felt the need to step in and 'translate' what he'd just said, to clear it up for the viewers I imagine who might have been confused and thought that what was just said had nothing to do with the question and only barely anything to do with reality... If you have to make excuses for why what someone says does not match what they actually mean then that's a pretty good admission that they cannot be trusted to speak coherently or that anyone should trust what they say, which raises the rather important question as to why anyone would or should.

  • On the post: Real Consequences: Trump’s Bullshit Claim About Tylenol Is Seeing Real World Results

    That One Guy ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2026 @ 12:42am

    'Sure he's crippled for life from polio but at least he's not autistic!'

    The weaponization of the parental protection instinct against both the parents and their own kids is quite possibly the most vile part of the pro-plague movement, resulting in situations where thanks to a barrage of lies and fraudulent 'science' so many parents have been convinced that their children are better off maimed for life or dead than autistic and that the actual medical experts who know what they're talking about are all part of some grand conspiracy and it's only the 'alternative experts'/frauds that are telling the truth.

  • On the post: Congressional Republicans Push Bills That Would Block Kids Access To Content For Ideological Reasons

    That One Guy ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2026 @ 10:07pm

    A mandatory online ID law by any other guise...

    Mandating that parents have access to their kids' accounts is a bloody nightmare for multiple reasons, from making it much harder for abused kids searching for information that would let them understand that they are being abused and potentially being able to report it to all but ensuring that kids who might have damn good reason to want some privacy, whether that be because they think they're LGBTQ+ or don't share their parents religion as the article brought up don't have it. Even setting aside how laws like this are essentially mandating providing your ID if you want to use a site(and all the privacy and security nightmares that brings) the one group that isn't going to be benefiting from these laws are the very kids that are being used as the excuse for them. As for the porn angle if you don't want your kid seeing porn online that's on you as a parent to deal with, not everyone but you.

  • On the post: Congressional Republicans Push Bills That Would Block Kids Access To Content For Ideological Reasons

    That One Guy ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2026 @ 09:31pm

    I'm sure the republican supporters would heartily assure that that that's a complete coincidence, fake news and a liberal lie...

  • On the post: Oregon Federal Judge Says ICE’s Warrantless Arrests Are Illegal

    That One Guy ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2026 @ 09:24pm

    It it an improvement? Sure. Is it much of one? Not really. 'It is clear that there are countless more people who have been rounded up, and who either remain in detention or have “voluntarily” deported than those, like M-J-M-A-, who were fortunate enough to find counsel at the eleventh hour. Defendants benefit from this blitz approach to immigration enforcement that takes advantage of navigating outside of the boundaries of conducting lawful arrests. For the one detainee who has the audacity to challenge the legality of her detention and gains release, several more remain detained or succumb to the threat of lengthy detention, and then instead “voluntarily” deport. Defendants win the numbers game at the cost of debasing the rule of law. Finally, this Court has previously described ICE officers’ field enforcement conduct as brutal and violent. The practices are intended to strike fear across large numbers of people throughout Oregon. The persistent intensity of regular ICE immigration enforcement operations may very well have the intended effect of normalizing this level of violence. If this normalization continues, then even greater harm will be inflicted.' Behavior like that should not have taken over a year before courts reached the point of considering issuing any response stronger than a sternly worded ruling telling the government not to brutalize and/or violate the rights of yet another batch of people. While judges across the US have hemmed and hawed for over a year as they pretended that everything was just business as usual countless rights have been violated and lives ruined if not ended, so while I'll admit that this is a slight improvement and hopefully a sign of more to come it's well past the point it should have happened and I'm struggling to find any inclination to applaud a judge for doing the absolute bare minimum from their position of privilege.

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