Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, we’ve got a double winner taking first place for both insightful and funny. It’s Strawb with a comment about Darren Beattie embracing the Twitter Files playbook:
Trump: “We will stop waste, fraud and abuse in the goverment!”
Beattie: ‘Starts a project that wastes government time and money, and creates a fraudulent narrative that will be abused to push an agenda‘
In second place on the insightful side, it’s Kinetic Gothic with another comment on that post:
I only had to read as far as “Darren Beattie” to know that this was going to be nuts..
This is the guy who Made the “Ray Epps is a Fed” a thing.
And he’s in the State Department now?
SRSLY, WTF..
Just more evidence that Trump isn’t draining the Swamp, he’s branding it as “TRUMP SWAMP” and stocking it with his favorite reptiles.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from That Anonymous Coward about everyone’s favorite company, Comcast:
Calling it a ‘marketplace’ is really really generous as they still are the only game in town in some places & all of the regulations seem to exist only to prop up a few monopoly players at the expense of the alleged benefits of the so called free market.
They are entrenched and have grown fat & lazy because they haven’t had to compete in decades.
One merely needs to look at the MNVO boom where somehow these companies are still making money offering “cut rate” plans for sometimes less than half of the carrier who’s network it uses offers their direct customers.
Perhaps the secret is the magical system where the government runs the lines for a flat fee & various vendors compete to get users for their product & if they mistreat the user they can spend less than 20 min moving to a different provider without any hassle.
Its the 21st Century and 5G didn’t manage to do anything that was promised or feared… althou it is possible it made some zombies. (looks at congress).
Next, it’s Heart of Dawn with a comment about RFK Jr.’s victim-blaming stance on measles deaths:
This attitude doesn’t just stop with diseases, but to every aspect of life; food contamination, workplace injuries, pollution in the air, soil and water, etc. Their notion is that if it kills you- well you deserve it.
And for anyone who thinks they’ll be OK with this- it can happen to you at any time. You will be fine, right up to the second you’re not. Then it’s all to late. And even if you survive, odds are the resulting disability could end you up as a “useless eater,” and the target of even worse things.
Over on the funny side, we’ve already had our first place double-winner above, so on to second place. It’s Kinetic Gothic again with another comment about RFK Jr.’s statements:
In other news, Mayor of Starbase TX says town won’t need sidewalks, traffic signals, or speed limits , says pedestian deaths are the fault of the victims not buying a Cybertruck to get around.
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with a comment from Nimrod about Trump’s assault on the legal profession:
No, Donald, you can NOT tariff a judge.
Finally, it’s Pixelation with a comment about the intelligence community demolishing claims of a Tren de Aragua “invasion”:
Next, they’ll claim Tren is working with Biden, a known terrorist. Everything bad is his fault! Make America German Again!
That’s all for this week, folks!