Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is a simple anonymous comment about the fact that 41% of Americans now live under age verification laws:
Such “small government”
In second place, it’s That One Guy with a comment about the hypocrisy of the right:
You can set your watch by the consistent reliability of conservatives going from vilifying and accusing the Others of the most heinous crimes and motivations imaginable while calling any attempts to work together treason and anti-american to calling for ‘co-operation’ and ‘forgiveness’ the second they achieve any sort of power and need the other side to either work with or at least not against them.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with a comment from jimb about a specific type of right wing hypocrisy, i.e. that which comes from Elon Musk:
Poor Elon, he’s just so misunderstood. When he said he was a “free speech absolutist”, he didn’t mean your free speech. Just his. You can say anything you want… as long as you agree with him.
Elon may or may not be a “free speech absolutist” – but he is absolutely a hypocrite.
Next, it’s Thad with a comment about the wishful notion that recent tensions could spell the end of the modern GOP:
People have been predicting the collapse of the GOP since 2008. It’s proven remarkably resilient.
Yes, the racists who want to keep POC out are fighting with the racists who want to exploit them for cheap labor again. But come election time, they usually manage to set their differences aside and celebrate the racism they have in common.
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is blakestacey with a comment on our post about Elon Musk threatening to sue over factual news headlines:
The replies to posts about Musk suggest that we need a “flag for bootlicking” option.
In second place, its another comment from a thread about Elon Musk, this time supposedly from (heh) “Adrian Dittman”:
I agree with Matthew M Bennett, and would like to add that Elon is a good father.
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with a comment from That One Guy about Musk suspending accounts on ExTwitter and asking people to be nicer:
I am shocked, shocked I say
MAGAts on Twitter: But I’m a member in good standing of the Leopards Eating Peoples Faces party, why is my face on the menu?!
Finally, it’s an anonymous comment about the federal court striking down a book ban law in Arkansas:
The Supreme Court: “Hold our beer.”
Brett Kavanaugh: “Like hell I’m giving up my beer!”
That’s all for this week, folks!