from the up-for-discussion dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful facet is David with a remark about Trump’s freakout after Democrats instructed troopers to not observe unlawful orders:
What everybody seems to miss
Trump’s tantrum right here clearly exhibits that he’s completely conscious that orders he places out and plans to place out in future are unlawful.
In any other case why would he hassle?
In second place, it’s Thad with a remark about Trump’s DOJ ordering the Texas GOP to take a blatantly unlawful path to try gerrymandering:
Even when SCOTUS doesn’t reverse it they’ve nonetheless obtained time to go one other one that might survive a courtroom problem earlier than the following election, but it surely’s going to be actually humorous if Texas’s gerrymander by no means goes into impact and California’s retaliatory gerrymander does. Wile E Coyote-ass motherfuckers.
For editor’s selection on the insightful facet, we begin out with a remark from That One Man about Trump’s absurd comparability of Antifa to organized gangs and terrorist teams:
‘Make protesting your regime unlawful with this one easy trick!’
It makes excellent sense actually, you simply have to assume like a member of a brutal dictatorship.
Step 1: Body anybody that protests towards you as a part of Antifa since clearly no-one else would ever do this.
Step 2: Declare that Antifa is a terrorist group proper up there with precise violent felony organizations.
Step 3: Congrats, anybody that protests towards now you can be accused of and legally handled as violent terrorists, and when you’re already laying the groundwork of (accused) criminals not solely having no rights however having the ability to be executed on the spot with out the effort of a trial then all the higher!
Subsequent, it’s Stephen T. Stone replying to the argument that algorithmic sorting of content material makes a platform chargeable for that content material:
Okay, however why, although?
Ordering posts from individuals whom you observe in a reverse chronological order, the place their most up-to-date posts sit on the prime of your feed, is itself a programmatic determination even when it’s the default setting. The identical goes for positioning/ordering reposts from individuals whom you observe, even when the choice to see these reposts is turned on by default. That you simply don’t see these choices as choices doesn’t change the truth that they’re, in reality, choices made by the service as to how they’ll resolve to point out you content material. Including an additional algorithm is simply an additional determination; it shouldn’t make a service extra chargeable for user-generated content material any greater than it will be with out that further determination.
I perceive the impulse to wish to punish Elon Musk for what he’s executed to Twitter. A shitload of different individuals most likely really feel the identical manner. However in making an attempt to take down the tree that’s Twitter’s promotion (unintended or in any other case) of Nazi and Nazi-adjacent content material with a flamethrower, you’d additionally danger burning down the all the opposite timber within the forest—and by that, I imply you’d danger destroying a big swath of the Web simply so you possibly can stick it to Elon. Is {that a} danger you wish to take?
Over on the humorous facet, we head again to our publish about Trump calling for Democrats’ heads over their message to the navy, the place Thad responded to the concept that this was seditous habits:
You may inform it’s probably not sedition as a result of Trump didn’t pardon them.
In second place, it’s David with a response to one thing we stated about criticism getting below the skinny pores and skin of authoritarians:
The time period you might be in search of is “exoskeleton”.
For editor’s selection on the humorous facet, as soon as once more we’re a bit of gentle on humorous feedback this week, so we’ll maintain it to only one — it’s Michael Barclay with a remark a few world wherein dangerous courtroom rulings on AI are by accident making all the things unlawful:
Instructor: OK, everybody, hand in your ebook reviews
Intelligent Pupil: The Copyright Clause ate my homework
That’s all for this week, people!
