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Semantics. Powerful people (billionaires) are working hand-in-hand with other powerful people (the government) to further erode our rights for their mutual benefit. That's close enough to a conspiracy to me. And how about the Actual Pedophile Cabal that Epstein was a part of, and who continue...

The interesting thing will be seeing what happens to Truth Social when Trump and all the other people who were exiled there are invited back. Will it be shut down, leaving yet another failed investment in Trump's portfolio? Will Musk do the Musk-iest possible thing and offer to buy it out...

Also, it's the DHS. A department encompassing various "security" and "intelligence" agencies (read: the Deep State) at the behest of W during the biggest wave of xenophobia in recent history. Expecting them to be anything but a front for fascism even during a Democratic administration would...

How long is a minute? Because he was kinda nuts during his "feminist" phase too. Just the complete opposite kind of nuts. That's why I brought him up; just like Kanye, he always gave off the impression of being prone to extreme ideas, even before he did a 180 on which kind of extreme ideas he...

AOC, at least, makes sense as a target because she genuinely espouses pretty radical leftist ideals. She's the closest thing Congress has to a 2010s Tumblr SJW stereotype. Pelosi and Clinton are both pretty standard middle-of-the-road Democrats, if I'm not mistaken. To the point where I think...

Yeah, between him, Scott Adams, and the Sinfest guy, I'm starting to think that some people just have a natural tendency towards extremism of any sort, and will just as eagerly side with one extreme as its diametric opposite.

It really does say something about the modern world that a speech about grand efforts to make the world a better place always comes across as a threat now. I suspect we're starting to recognize that there is no such thing in the real world as a powerful hero—that power is something only villains...

My counterpoint to this is that if actual Nazis take control of the government, they're gonna enact whatever terrible laws they want regardless of what they're "allowed" to do because a disregard for society's standards of decency is part and parcel of being Nazis.

And what do you do if the liars are good enough at lying (and powerful enough) to shout those "everyone else"s down? An unregulated marketplace of ideas is just as dangerous as any other unregulated market.

Oh, I'm well aware of that, and I hate it. Like, I guess we've reached the point where the majority of internet users literally grew up in the age of smartphones and apps, signed up for Twitter when they were seven, and have never had any reason to venture outside of that corner of the internet...

Bullshit. Nobody has the inherent right to spread lies. If that's what freedom of speech means, then I'm not in favor of freedom of speech.

They'll never close it. This is a major corporation we're talking about, here, run by people who are living comfortably at the opposite end of the country in the most socially-progressive state. There's nothing the government of Florida could ever do that would inconvenience them more than...

Once upon a time, there were actually other websites on the internet besides Twitter, many of which were specifically designed to be used for this very thing. Don't mistake the monopolization of the internet for a necessary evil.

It's way too late for you to start being a force for good in the world, Oprah.

They also need to crack down on people being able to access media outlets originating in Russia.

To be fair, you'd be hard pressed to find twelve people in this entire country who aren't already either part of his cult or want to see him hanged.

The Steam Deck is a seriously impressive piece of tech, considering what it has to do—run current-generation Windows games through what's basically an emulator using hardware a fraction of the size of a laptop. And as the one person I know who owns a Steam Controller, I'm seriously jealous of...

The thing about VR is that it's a bit like graphical upgrades: There are loads of experiences are enhanced by it, but very few are truly impossible without it—but once it's out, the vast majority of what's released for it isn't made backward-compatible with what came before. And in VR's case...

You know, on top of every other way it's been reimagined, this franchise has to have some kind of record for how frequently the characters get recast. There are characters dating all the way back to the early days of talking pictures who have gone through fewer voice actors than these guys.

It's a low bar to clear, and only three members of her own party cleared it. Some might take that as a sign that the Democrats ought to stage a coup of their own aimed at eradicating the Republicans and anyone who'll stand up for them. Especially since all three of those people have already been...