from the so-you-say dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Strawb with a reply to a couple parts of a comment on our post about “Trump derangement syndrome” turning out to be pretty damn correct:
“Why? Is your contention that non-democratic or abnormally-democratic government inherently represents an “existential threat”?“
That seems an odd question. If a democratically elected leader chooses to shit on democratic principles and enforce fascistic ones, it seems pretty clear that that’s an existential threat to democracy.
“Okay, but that’s putting a lot of blame on “ordinary” people, whereas I’m kind of baffled about how U.S. leadership apparently did nothing for 4 years“
That’s whataboutery. A lot of “ordinary” people are complicit in that they voted for him despite his obvious character flaws and tendency to distort reality.
That doesn’t mean politicians don’t also carry part of the blame.
In second place, it’s Rocky with a comment about the FCC installing a babysitter at CBS:
And here it is, the Ministry of Truth, something that “conservatives” claimed the Democrats wanted to create. Lets see the excuses flow defending this abomination claiming this is just a way to fix anti-conservative bias in the media.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from Stephen T. Stone about Trump’s DOJ failing to convict ICE protestors due to the constant lies of federal officers:
Liars get lazier with time because they fool themselves into a false confidence. Just look at Donald Trump: He doesn’t even bother trying to justify his lies any more because the GOP buys into him wholesale, his biggest supporters don’t care that he lies, and most of the people in power who supposedly oppose him just accept his framing without bothering to push back on both the lies and the context behind them.
Next, it’s n00bdragon with a comment about judges running out of patience with the administration and the DOJ, but not fast enough:
They’ve “had it” with them so much that they still aren’t disbarring people or ordering arrests for willful violations of court orders.
Contempt of court means jail time for little people. Wake me up when it means jail time for big people too.
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is an anonymous comment about the attempt to sue social media companies for the Buffalo mass shooting:
Why didn’t they sue phone and computer manufacturers too? If it wasn’t for them, people wouldn’t have been able to post on social media sites.
Next sue the power company for providing electricity that enabled the internet site to exist.
Then sue Comcast, not because they provided the telecommunications medium to get to the site, but because they are a terrible company and deserve to go bankrupt.
In second place, it’s MrWilson answering a question about where another commenter got the idea that ExTwitter is “doing pretty great right now”:
Grok told them so after it searched for Musk’s perspective on the topic.
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with another comment from Rocky, who continued the riffing that occurred after the second place winning comment above, about who else people could sue:
Ultimately it’s the Big Bangs fault.
Finally, it’s one more comment from MrWilson, breaking out a string of acronyms in pushing for SCOTUS to cut it out with the shadow docket rulings:
After all, subverting and weaponizing rules for your own benefit is the GOP MO and SOP, those POS SOBs.
That’s all for this week, folks!
