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• On the post: All But 3 Of The 4,499 Refugees Admitted To The US Under Trump Are White South Africans

  

  That One Guy ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2026 @ 12:10pm

  'Why'd you leave south africa?' 'I feared for my life.' 'Why'd you leave the US?' 'I feared for my life!'

  Oh sure, I just find it funny that the excuse to make exceptions and bring them to the US is that white people are being oppressed and killed in south africa, and yet they'd rather go back to such a 'deadly' place than stick around in the US. Really undermines the whole narrative when they'd rather 'risk their lives' in their previous county than stay in the US that's supposedly so much safer and better for them.

• On the post: Trump Still Pretending The Most Dangerous Domestic Terrorists Are People Who Don’t Like Fascism

  

  That One Guy ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2026 @ 11:50am

  Trump and his regime belong in the Hague alright, just not at the table he wants to sit at.

• On the post: The Wall Street Journal Wonders Why There Are Suddenly So Many Sleazy Fees

  

  That One Guy ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2026 @ 05:22pm

  They're as 'confused' why those fees showed up as I am the pope

  'We cheered on the arsonists for head of the fire department and he's been doing great! ... in totally unrelated news half the city is currently on fire and we have no clue how that could have happened.'

• On the post: The Right Wing Origins Of Age Verification Laws Don’t Disappear Just Because They’re Going Bipartisan.

  

  That One Guy ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2026 @ 05:14pm

  Useful idiots and/or fellow bigots

  Congressional proposals like the Kids Online Safety Act were introduced with bipartisan co-sponsorship led by Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn. Blackburn, specifically, began courting anti-LGBTQ+ groups to back the Kids Online Safety Act by presenting the proposal as a means to block forms of LGBTQ+ speech—all expression with First Amendment protections. When one of the main sponsors of a bill slipped up and admitted that the purpose of their bill was to censor LGBTQ+ content that should have been enough to drive off anyone not equally as bigoted, making any continued support of it a damning condemnation of any politician who didn't immediately bail as either a useful idiot being used to support a bigot-based bill or a fellow bigot who was doing it deliberately.

• On the post: The Right Wing Origins Of Age Verification Laws Don’t Disappear Just Because They’re Going Bipartisan.

  

  That One Guy ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2026 @ 05:06pm

  Why am I getting 'But the democrats were the slavers back then!' vibes...

  If it did start with 'nanny leftists' it's strange how it's been so effectively hijacked by right-wing people and groups, I guess the 'leftists' didn't care about it enough to stay in charge of the efforts.

• On the post: The Right Wing Origins Of Age Verification Laws Don’t Disappear Just Because They’re Going Bipartisan.

  

  That One Guy ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2026 @ 05:02pm

  Why am I getting 'But the democrats were the slavers back then!' vibes...

  Strange how it's been hijacked by right-wing groups now then, I guess the 'nanny leftists' didn't care that much and let someone else take charge on the matter.

• On the post: All But 3 Of The 4,499 Refugees Admitted To The US Under Trump Are White South Africans

  

  That One Guy ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2026 @ 04:38pm

  'Look I love the racism but everything else... hard pass.' -White S. African 'refugees'

  And the best/most telling part is that even they don't want to stay in the US when they experience it first-hand and would rather go back to where they were before when they supposedly 'feared for their lives'.

• On the post: ACAB: Cops Are Bringing ‘Delinquency Of A Minor’ Charges Against Adults Who Assist Students During Anti-ICE Protests

  

  That One Guy ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2026 @ 04:32pm

  Biden Derangement Syndrome, it's a terrible thing to see...

  Two articles from four years ago, I must say that's quite the compelling argument against my comment about what's happening now. As for voting in general you can either vote for the person who lit your house on fire and is currently tossing buckets of gasoline on it while sadistically cackling about the screaming coming from inside, or you can vote for the person standing by and offering 'thoughts and prayers' and the occasional cup of water, who might be convinced to start tossing buckets of water with enough pressure but even if you don't get them that far at least they aren't tossing gasoline like the other person.

• On the post: Oh Look, The MAGA FTC Built The Censorship Industrial Complex It Was Screaming About

  

  That One Guy ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2026 @ 03:51pm

  MAGAt free speech: 'I am free to say whatever I want, and you're free to say what I want too!'

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

• On the post: All But 3 Of The 4,499 Refugees Admitted To The US Under Trump Are White South Africans

  

  That One Guy ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2026 @ 03:39pm

  'The only acceptable immigrant is a WHITE immigrant.'

  The Trump regime has said the quiet part out loud on a number of issues since they took power and on this one they've ripped the mask entirely off and made crystal clear that the anti-immigration stance the party-now-cult holds never had anything to do with 'doing it the right/legal way' and everything to do with what skin color the immigrants had.

• On the post: 438 Experts Said Age Verification Is Dangerous. Legislators Are Moving Forward With It Anyway.

  

  That One Guy ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2026 @ 06:03pm

  'The public doesn't need privacy!' 'Then neither do you.' 'On second thought...'

  Simplest way to fix age verification systems is to leak the information from said system of the politicians supporting it and the CEOs/regulators running it. So many stupid and/or terrible laws would be stopped cold if there was a 'You First' law in place that mandated that any law that would impact the public would apply to politicians first.

• On the post: ‘Trump Phone’ Sees Price Hike, But Still No Release Date (Or Actual Phone)

  

  That One Guy ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2026 @ 05:55pm

  Eternally 'two weeks away'...

  No worries, while there have been some technical issues I believe the planned release date is just two weeks out so people better start sending in their $100 deposits quick before the price rises a third time after they realize (again) that even $1,000 is still woefully underpriced.

• On the post: ACAB: Cops Are Bringing ‘Delinquency Of A Minor’ Charges Against Adults Who Assist Students During Anti-ICE Protests

  

  That One Guy ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2026 @ 05:26pm

  Hey now, if the child didn't want to be left alone like that then they should have chosen a better parent to be born to! That situation would be entirely the parent's fault. Or the child's. Really anyone except the cop.

• On the post: Judge Tosses Trump’s Ridiculous $10 Billion Defamation Suit Against Rupert Murdoch

  

  That One Guy ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2026 @ 05:02pm

  To know what a republican/MAGAt is doing listen to what they accuse others of

  Literally the lawfare accusation-confession from Trump. When you sue him to stop his unconstitutional acts as a public official, it’s “lawfare,” but when he sues you for exercising your constitutional rights, it’s “justice.” Every accusation a confession, emphasis on 'every'.

• On the post: Judge Tosses Trump’s Ridiculous $10 Billion Defamation Suit Against Rupert Murdoch

  

  That One Guy ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2026 @ 04:59pm

  Damn you principles

  This truly is the most messed up timeline when I'm on the side of Rupert Murdock, even if only for a moment...

• On the post: ACAB: Cops Are Bringing ‘Delinquency Of A Minor’ Charges Against Adults Who Assist Students During Anti-ICE Protests

  

  That One Guy ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2026 @ 04:25pm

  'Beatings will continue until the deserved respect is displayed.'

  Nothing like making clear that your department fully supports the US gestapo and loathes the first amendment to really inspire respect among the population and show how undeserved ACAB is when it comes to police.

• On the post: 438 Experts Said Age Verification Is Dangerous. Legislators Are Moving Forward With It Anyway.

  

  That One Guy ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2026 @ 03:28pm

  'Of course we knew that stuff would happen, that's why we passed the bill!'

  Meanwhile, the laws keep passing. Nobody seems to have bothered asking the scientists. Or, more accurately, the scientists volunteered their expertise in the most public way possible, and everyone in a position to act on it decided that the political appeal of “protecting the children” was more important than whether the proposed method of protection actually protects children, or whether it creates a sprawling new infrastructure for surveillance, discrimination, and censorship that will be almost impossible to dismantle once it’s built. If literally hundreds of experts in the field in question tell you that if you pass a law a whole slew of terrible harms are likely to happen and you do it anyway then the most generous reading of you as a politician is that you don't care about those harms, with a less generous reading that the harms are a desired feature of your bill rather than an 'unfortunate' bug.

• On the post: The CDC Doesn’t Want You To See A CDC Report On How Effective COVID Vaccines Are

  

  That One Guy ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2026 @ 03:16pm

  'No REAL study would say that I'm wrong.'

  Of course he's skeptical about the methodology, he's treating medical research result the same way republicans-now-MAGAts treat election results: 'If it doesn't end in my favor it's wrong.'

• On the post: Someone Filed a Bogus DMCA Notice to Kill a Story About A Sketchy SEO Firm. It Worked — Briefly.

  

  That One Guy ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2026 @ 04:33pm

  Cue a completely unknown person/group sending a DMCA claim to get this article taken down in 5... 4... 3...

• On the post: Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations To Focus On Deportations

  

  That One Guy ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2026 @ 04:22pm

  You know what, fair.

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