from the on-the-grapevine dept
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson with a comment about the failure to get indictments in supposed ICE assaults:
And the fact that prosecutors and grand juries didn’t find evidence of actual assault in so many cases proves ICE’s assault statistics are bullshit. If you read other articles on the failure to push to trial, they note that a lot of the footage contradicted the testimony of the officers. The claims of assault turned out to be descriptions of the officers assaulting the protesters.
Remember this the next time someone comes into the comments clutching their pearls about assaults on our brave dedicated federal officers, bravely dedicated to assaulting people and lying about it.
In second place, it’s a simple anonymous comment about Axios’s approach to covering Trump:
Treating fact and fiction as equal sides is bias favoring fiction.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with an anonymous comment about copyright and AI:
The message here isn’t so much “support AI everything” as “‘limiting AI-generated free speech’ is a strict subset of ’limit free speech”.
If the AI thing isn’t substantially similar to any extant copyrighted work, or its derivation from copyrighted works is fair use, then it’s usually okay. It might be slop, it might be in poor taste, etc. but we shouldn’t sacrifice free speech on the altar of “but I don’t like that speech”, or you open up the option of censorship for whoever’s in power, which is currently more obviously a bad idea than usual.
Next, it’s iria64 with a comment about the installation of a “Bias Monitor” at CBS:
They should just call it what it is… “Political Officer”
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is Strawb with a comment about Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters and his defensive response after broadcasting nudity to a meeting:
Why am I not surprised he doesn’t know what a naked woman looks like?
In second place, it’s Pixelation with a comment about the DHS using the Bible to pretend god hates migrants:
And God better keep pushing that narrative or Trump will sue him.
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with a reply from settsu to a comment about welfare handouts being popular among people who don’t pay taxes:
9 out of 10 billionaires heartily agree!
Finally, it’s another (this time anonymous) comment about Ryan Walters:
Hoist by his own pornhub.
That’s all for this week, folks!
