Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Bloof with a response to the latest accusation that Bluesky is a liberal echo chamber:

Sorry republicans, you don’t get to use the N-word and still get invited to parties, that’s not how life works. You made the ‘marketplace of ideas’ a thing to try and bring back long discredited political ideologies and pseudoscience, you shouldn’t be shocked that normal people choose to shop places other than your market, and that it’s no fun being surrounded by scammers and nazis.

In second place, it’s Ed with a comment about a certain “syndrome”:

Trump Derangement Syndrome is more correctly the affliction that his supporters exhibit. They twist themselves into knots and layers of hypocrisy to excuse and defend their orange idiot king of every gross word and action, no matter what.

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we’ve got a pair of comments from our post calling on Senator Schumer to step aside. First, it’s Dan with a response to his recent TV appearance:

I heard Schumer’s rationale on a TV interview. [paraphasing] … if we don’t cooperate now, our lack of cooperation opens the door for Trump to do much worse…{emergency powers, etc.}
In some way it makes sense, but…

If you give the GOP an inch they will always take a mile, AKA history. For what it’s worth, perhaps the Dems should have walked out and allow things to get as bad as possible. If it did, maybe some of the voters out there would smarten up just a tad and not put a sociopath in the Oval Office just for the sake of the economy (or so is the excuse anyway).

Next, it’s Thad with a reply to that comment, examining the question of whether a government shutdown would be a good thing, and whether calling for one is a form of accelerationism:

The argument isn’t accelerationism. It isn’t “let things get worse on purpose”. Letting things get worse on purpose is exactly what Schumer’s doing.

The argument is “do not comply with this administration, and let the Republicans own what they’re doing.”

Maybe a government shutdown would be worse, in the near term, than the CR. But refusing to fight back against the Trump/Musk/GOP agenda just means that the next time is going to be worse, because that’s what happens when you appease a bully instead of standing up for yourself.

Over on the funny side, our first place winner is an anonymous comment about the failure of “anything goes” social media policies:

Everyone wants to be a libertarian until there are bears in the streets.

In second place, it’s freakanatcha with a comment about leaving ExTwitter:

We have to extort companies or they won

I’ll admit it.

I left the twit because it was making me feel intellectually inferior. To know any argument I might advance could be crushed with just a few keystrokes in reply by astute commenters such as Catturd or whoever translates Ultra MAGA Trump Gal’s thoughts from the original hillbilly gibberish. And others, I suspect, have some sort of relationship with Putin. Just a guess.

For editor’s choice on the funny side, we’ve got a pair of comments about Trump putting the Declaration of Independence in his office. One commenter suggested he would soon sell it, and Stephen T. Stone continued with thoughts on how he’d increase its value:

After signing it.

…to which Sok Puppette appended another detail:

With a sharpie.

That’s all for this week, folks!