Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Whoever with a response to one particular line in our post about John Roberts decimating faith in the Supreme Court's consistency:
Consistency?
it's the rationale being upheld by the decision that will ultimately amount to a more important gain for the vulnerable in the long term."
In the past, I would have agreed with you on this point, but this court has shown quite clearly that it doesn't even see its own decisions as holding precedential value.
In another case, this court might simply choose to ignore what it said before and grant the win to its preferred side.
In second place, it's Stephen T. Stone with another comment on that post, this time in response to a comment asking if we were being sarcastic:
No, they're not. It's the principle I tend to hold in re: free speech, in that protecting the rights of the worst people" to express themselves without government interference makes protecting that right for all other people that much easier. Even though I dislike how 303 Creative ended up at SCOTUS, I do agree with the principle of SCOTUS's decision in that case, which is that the government generally shouldn't be able to coerce an individual into expressing speech with which that individual disagrees.
Imagine if the laws of the United States didn't apply to non-citizens-that the cops could arrest someone and jail that person for the rest of their life without that person being able to challenge their arrest or imprisonment. What would stop the cops from declaring you a non-citizen and putting you in jail forever? The whole point of defending the civil rights of people you don't think deserve them is to ensure that those rights apply to you if, say, you piss off the government.
For editor's choice on the insightful side, we start out with another comment from Whoever, this time about the DOJ facing possible contempt charges after admitting a DHS press release was false:
They don't care
Until someone in the administration loses their freedom or law license, they don't care. The so-called apology is performative bullshit, as evidenced by the fact that the false accusation is still live.
Next, it's MrWilson with a comment about Kash Patel's leadership:
As they say, a liar won't believe anyone else." People who peddle lies for a living don't want the truth. They just want to know who is disloyal.
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is an anonymous comment about Trump saying I don't think about anybody":
::Proceeds to fire off 138 tweets about Obama and Biden that night::
In second place, it's BernardoVera with a reply to a commenter ranting about trans people, antifa, and terrorism:
I'll take delusional bullshit for $200, Alex."
For editor's choice on the funny side, we start out with an anonymous comment on that same post, about the administration's declaration that trans people, antifa, and drug dealers are indeed all terrorists:
Man, Trump REALLY seems to want to convince us that terrorists are awesome
Finally, it's lorgskyegon with a comment about the drugs-for-votes scheme that prosecutors backed down from prosecuting under Trump:
Let's be blunt: your vote matters.
The people just wanted voter turnout to be high and it takes a joint effort to get everyone to the polls.
That's all for this week, folks!