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  • On the post: Bari Weiss Is Filling CBS News With British Right Wing Propagandists

    That One Guy ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2026 @ 01:51pm

    A target audience of none

    As always no matter what she does she's doomed to failure(unless the goal is to kill CBS entirely) because no-one wants Fox-lite. The people who want to watch a propaganda channel like Fox are already doing so, the people who aren't interested in that sort of garbage aren't going to be interested in an ever-so-slightly watered down version of it, which means her target audience doesn't exist and no amount of doubling down on an already failed attempt to appeal to them is going to change that.

  • On the post: Xbox Lays Off 20% Of Staff, Cut Studios, Largely Impacting Acquired Devs It Promised It Wouldn’t Layoff

    That One Guy ( profile ), 11 Jul, 2026 @ 01:24pm

    Theater on BOTH sides

    Interestingly, this is the latest in a series of staff cuts, many of which have been at studios that Microsoft recently acquired and told the FTC and the courts that there wouldn’t be layoffs in order to get the acquisitions approved. Those were lies, of course, but there won’t be any punishment for those lies. Regulation is just so un-American, you know. It certainly doesn't hurt that I've no doubt that none of the regulators involved believed for a second the lies they were being told and knew damn well that the mergers currently in front of them would have the same result as every other merger does: mass layoffs and similar 'cost cutting' measures while the execs make out like bandits.

  • On the post: ICE Rebuts Nazi Allegations By Going Full Gestapo To Hunt Down Critics

    That One Guy ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2026 @ 02:23pm

    A combo term I've seen to describe the behavior is 'Crybully'.

  • On the post: Yet Another Study Finds No Causal Link Between Tylenol & Autism

    That One Guy ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2026 @ 02:18pm

    Wait, why research time travel, I thought everyone knew that former democrat presidents have a time-travel/mind-control machine that they use any time a republican makes it into office, just borrow theirs.

  • On the post: ICE Rebuts Nazi Allegations By Going Full Gestapo To Hunt Down Critics

    That One Guy ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2026 @ 02:10pm

    Someone doth protest too much

    If not nazi, why nazi shaped?

  • On the post: Yet Another Study Finds No Causal Link Between Tylenol & Autism

    That One Guy ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2026 @ 12:21pm

    As long as they're making stupid correlations...

    Every autistic person had drunk water at some point in their life, therefore water causes autism. Every autistic person has breathed air at some point in their life, therefor air causes autism. Every autistic person was born from a human, therefore having human parents causes autism. Trying to 'prove' something doesn't cause autism is a never-ending waste of time because there's always something that you haven't tested and the people you're trying to convince don't actually trust or believe science anyway, making it an even bigger waste of time that and resources that would be much better spent countering the toxic ideology that being autistic is only just better than being dead.

  • On the post: Bricks & Minifigs Claims It Wants To Make Mansell Whole. It’s Still Suing Him For RICO.

    That One Guy ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2026 @ 11:29am

    'Stop looking at the man/lawsuit behind the curtain!'

    The best case scenario I can think of to explain the contradiction is that the left hand(legal team) didn't bother to tell the right hand(PR firm) what they were currently in the process of doing and said PR firm didn't feel it was necessary to do any research as to what their new client was in the middle of, with the alternative that they're just lying and trying to gaslight people into thinking that there's nothing to see/report on here, so people should just move on and stop covering the matter...

  • On the post: Trump’s Reflecting Pool Failures To Be Taken Out On US Olympic Canoeist David Hearn

    That One Guy ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2026 @ 11:24am

    Maybe go after the crook that 'defamed' an entire wing of the WH next

    “If people are defaming our monuments, they should face the consequences of that,” Burgum said. You know what, I agree with him 100% on this, any scumbag that's 'defaming' national monuments should face the consequences of that. So then, when's he going after Trump and the company that got the contract to ruin the pool?

  • On the post: No, Tim Sweeney, Valve Isn’t ‘Irresponsible’ For Having An AI Disclosure Tag On Games

    That One Guy ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2026 @ 11:23am

    'The less my customers know the better' tells you a lot about a seller

    Allowing consumers to be better informed is always a good thing. To consumers? Yes. To people who are banking on consumers not being informed under the assumption that a more informed customers is less likely to be a customer? No.

  • On the post: DOJ Using Gang, Terrorist Prosecutors To Ensure People Opposed To Trump Are Treated Like Gang Members, Terrorists

    That One Guy ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2026 @ 11:05am

    VERY conditional support for 'free speech' it turns out...

    Meanwhile just listen to all that nothing from the same people that were screaming from the rooftops every gorram day a democrat was in charge about how tyrannical the government was and how, why you couldn't say anything without the government breathing down your neck!

  • On the post: No, Tim Sweeney, Valve Isn’t ‘Irresponsible’ For Having An AI Disclosure Tag On Games

    That One Guy ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2026 @ 09:50pm

    'People love AI!' 'For the last time 'execs' and 'the public' are different groups!'

    Yeah, if you have to hide AI involvement in your products that's really giving away the game that you know damn well the public is not in favor of it no matter how much you try to claim otherwise and/or cram it down their throats.

  • On the post: JD Vance Brags About Being Able To Do Lots Of Watergates, Compares Himself To Nixon

    That One Guy ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2026 @ 08:54pm

    'Sit. Roll over. Bark whatever we tell you too. Good little mutts.'

    I mean, as vile a person he is he's not wrong to think and even say out loud that the US media has been so thoroughly brought to heel that they'd never go after a president like they did during Nixon's term, one need only look at how they sanewashed Trump both in office and out and how they continually show up at 'press briefings' where they're routinely lied to and mocked to their faces. When all that matters is ratings and appeasing your rich owners pesky things like 'journalistic integrity' and 'honesty' just get in the way.

  • On the post: German Court Says Google Is Liable For False Claims In Its AI Overviews Because They Are Its Own Words

    That One Guy ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2026 @ 08:43pm

    Oh darn, such a terrible loss to society...

    Companies may not be able to profitably operate AI lawyers, doctors and media influencers if they are held responsible for what they say and do. As the saying goes, 'Don't threaten me with a good time.'

  • On the post: No, Tim Sweeney, Valve Isn’t ‘Irresponsible’ For Having An AI Disclosure Tag On Games

    That One Guy ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2026 @ 08:30pm

    'What next, a 'This game involved heavy crunch work due to crappy managers' flag?!'

    Situation: The general public and especially gamers(can't imagine why...) aren't too keen on AI, to the point that it's causing people to either seriously reconsider purchases if not flat out reject them. Steam: Decides that whatever their position on AI it's important to their customer base, and take a basic step to make their customers/users more informed as to AI use, allowing them to make informed decisions when purchasing. Epic: Decides that if an informed customer base is going to result in less sales then the appropriate solution is to keep people in the dark and prevent them from becoming informed.

  • On the post: Elon Musk Threatens To Sue Rep. Khanna For… Citing The Lancet About How DOGE Cuts Will Likely Lead To Millions Of Deaths

    That One Guy ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2026 @ 05:47pm

    Given how the 'spat' fizzled out and resulted in less-than-nothing I strongly suspect that it was nothing but theater, a way for Musk to try to distance himself from Trump during a period when Musk was catching a lot of heat for the hatchet job DODGE was doing to the government to the point that it was impacting his businesses.

  • On the post: Supreme Court Decides Not To Destroy The First Amendment Just Yet

    That One Guy ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2026 @ 05:38pm

    That seems entirely within character

    Instead, the founding generation believed that, if anything, public figures had stronger claims for damages when they were defamed. Ah yes, because if there's anything that a group that were involved in a revolution against a monarchy are likely to have strongly believed it's that the powerful should have an easier time shutting up those beneath them that the powerless had.

  • On the post: The DEA Is A Domestic Terrorist Organization That’s Trying To Kill Children

    That One Guy ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2026 @ 05:38pm

    'Thousands of dead kids is a price we're willing (to have them) pay'

    “Public descriptions suggesting that DEA knowingly permitted fentanyl to reach communities are false and fundamentally mischaracterize the facts,” DEA spokesperson Amanda Wozniak wrote in an email. She said the investigations involved court-authorized wiretaps “in which agents and prosecutors conducted real-time surveillance, intelligence gathering, and operational analysis targeting larger drug trafficking organizations.” Even if you recently suffered the required head injury to take them at their word that they let the 'smaller' shipments go through in order to attempt to catch larger ones that's still them admitting that, per their own arguments as to the insane lethality of fentanyl they are willing to see hundreds, thousands if not tens of thousands of kids die from overdoses related to the drug so that they can maybe save more.

  • On the post: Supreme Court Decides Not To Destroy The First Amendment Just Yet

    That One Guy ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2026 @ 05:26pm

    Hmm, I'd say that honest people adjust their opinions based upon new data rather than intelligent people, as it's entirely possible for a 'stupid' person that is nonetheless honest to say something wrong, be corrected, and change their opinion whereas a dishonest person smart or dumb will stubbornly stick to their debunked position.

  • On the post: The Supreme Court Upholds The Constitution. Barely.

    That One Guy ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2026 @ 05:20pm

    'The rules say you can't do that!' '... And?' 'So stop it!' 'Make me if you can.'

    Or to put it another way: If you're in a card game and the other player starts to openly cheat sticking to the previous rules rather than swapping to the new set they decided was acceptable is a good move only if you want to lose.

  • On the post: John Roberts Believes In The Unitary Executive, Except For When It Might Crash His Investment Portfolio

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

    Sorry Fifth Circuit, you're stuck at number two

    The most openly corrupt court in the US might occasionally rule against the Trump regime on minor matters but when it comes to the big stuff they've made crystal clear that they have only one rule: Anything Trump wants, he gets.

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