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gu3st October 29, 2024

@jeoh Right, interesting, thanks.

gu3st October 29, 2024

Musta blinked.

gu3st October 27, 2024

@simple simon Oh, right. Don't even want to ask how you know that, sir.

gu3st October 23, 2024

In a separate article, Jackie O says that she took up to 24 Panadeine Forte tablets a day, setting the codeine aside, that's 12000mg of paracetamol a day. I'm not sure what a fatal dose would be, but surely that's right up there? Daily?

gu3st October 9, 2024

Seeing a few of these social media stayers online. 

While the devil on my shoulder is spouting; "Idiot", I'm going to opt for the more charitable, "There are some people that need to get out in nature in more, in order to appreciate the relative scale of their existence, versus a natural disaster. 

Beachside house? If this influencer is actually doing this, she's genuinely putting her life in danger and her risk assessment is atrocious, a pithy quip on Insta won't propel you from the path of 200km/h winfd and accompanying storm surge.

gu3st October 9, 2024

C'mon. I'm not taking this seriously. Not an identity. A trend. A bid to be more socially salient. A dash of challenging their parents thrown in.

gu3st October 1, 2024

That underwear has found a great gap in the marketplace. 


And...I don't shop for pants to accentuate my bulge, that's what my codpiece is for.

gu3st September 15, 2024

@snorks I have clearly stated the opposite the first time you tried to put those words in my mouth, go back and read again.


And, playing out in the background,   Trump and Vance are doubling down on pet eating immigrant lies while multiple bomb and death threats lock down schools and hospitals. A live (and despicable) demonstration of why truth is important in public discourse. 

As usual, need to sign off from this as you're incapable of changing you stance, no matter how untenable or inaccurate it's proven. Til next time.

gu3st September 11, 2024

@snorks You try to pick and choose the ground you're on when you can't refute a point that I've consistently made, but here's it's distillation: The right zealously defend freedom of speech in an absolute form because it allows for the lies from the right that galvanise their base. 

Further to this, it also allows the hate speech that more extreme right base love to hear, because it feeds their confirmation bias, like Trump saying that immigrants are eating pets in Ohio during the debate. A presidential candidate shouldn't be able to say that, it's highly inflammatory and endangers lives. 

gu3st September 10, 2024

@snorks Lies on the left don't have any political consequence that you've managed to delineate. You also aren't discerning my argument - where have I said that public figures on the Left wouldn't be held to same standard of truth? You shying away from an uncomfortable truth? Could the Right get over the line electorally at the moment without the help of fearmongering lies?


But, as you repeatedly tell everyone you're not of the right, so there's no possibility of this being a defensive reaction...

gu3st September 9, 2024

Breaking news: Youtube has just demonetized Candace Owen's channel, plus suspended her for a week. Probably for hate speech, but I can't yet find out the exact reason why.

Hit 'em where it hurts, people shouldn't be making money from this BS.

gu3st September 9, 2024

"Wow, maybe men can change."

There are two genders voluntarily, presumably enthusiastically, in those relationships.

gu3st September 8, 2024

@snorks How many different ways can I say, the lying is more relevant on the right, because voters on the right are mostly the ones being manipulated by them? Right wing columnists/influencers are always about 'freedom of speech', until an ad has a trans person on it, or someone kneels at a sports match or writes a book with LBGQTI+ themes. That kind of selectivity suggests that this right is only important as it pertains to them, very few people truly embrace unfettered free speech. I want public commenters held to a standard of truth, because that goes a long towards solving these sponsored online cold culture wars.  Jan 6 wouldn't have happened, if Trump could be banned from broadcasting his lies. Is truthful free speech really such a problematic concept?     

BTW, I'm always 'shifting goalposts' on you when I make a point that you can't refute. If the Left are being manipulated by influencers and conspiracies, give me some well known examples or admit that it's politically highly lopsided.

gu3st September 7, 2024

@snorks My argument is focus on the main problem, not sideshows or whataboutisms.  If you're a right wing influencer (in the pay of Russia or not, as recent events reveal), it is far more important to you that you're legally allowed to lie to manipulate your subscribers to your or your client's end, than it is to your counterpart on the left. If counterparts exist, I can't even point to equivalent figures courting political influence on the left. 

gu3st September 5, 2024

Clause 31.2c: In the event of the cessation of the parties' relationship, Swift is entitled to release up to, but no more than, three songs dragging Kelce over a period not exceeding two calendar years from the breakup being "Insta" official. 

The aforementioned songs may not reference genitalia size or lovemaking duration, but it is permissible for the songs to reference the coiffure quality of a person not party to this relationship.

gu3st September 3, 2024

@d123 I appreciate your viewpoint here, but I think that you for every conspiratorial belief that came true, there are 20-30 jewish space laser wielding, shape-shifting lizard people running a paedophilic pizzeria who are convinced masks don't work and the US government released covid through 5G dispersed from 747 contrails, while all the while the birds that the CIA replaced with robotic cameras watch on.

I'll add, a distrust in the mainstream media has been carefully cultivated under Trump and has led to his followers being divorced from reality and fact on many fronts.  Trump then spins a reality for them, with the help of allied news outlets. While we should always think critically about the things that you read, the big mastheads can't just print unsubstantiated rubbish and call it news. Watch out for opinion writers who have been allowed much greater legal leeway with regards to the truth, the Fox (and Sky) network fields an army of them and often gives their output the window dressing of a researched journalistic article. I know that publications from the left do the same, by for mine, do less to try and present their content as news.

gu3st September 3, 2024

@snorks But, Snorks, as you're repeatedly saying that you're not of the right, you have the clarity to see that the lies proliferate far more around what people from the right want to believe?  Right-leaning folk have been prone to political manipulation and an internet industry has sprung up around exploiting that propensity.

It's simply not true to suggest that the proportion is the same on both sides of politics. You can point to poeple from the left leaning into wellness BS, but on the political front, far less than in the past. Is the Left possessing less of a predilection for conspiracy, or just less targeted by political (Cambridge Analytica, Whitestone and the like) and state actors (Russia, Iran, China etc)? Who knows? But at this moment in time, it is mostly the right buying in to and propagating false conspiracies.

gu3st September 3, 2024

It amazes me that men like this slither in and out of their monster life undetected. 

Did he seem 'off' to those around him?

gu3st September 2, 2024

@snorks Point to the rebuttal that stopped parents of slaughtered children from being harassed in the name of an evil man's profit. People rebutted like crazy, though.  Alex Jones was told to pay damages, to the best of my knowledge, he's yet to cough up, is still living extravagantly, but is about to be forced to liquidate assets.


Rebuttal did nothing. Rather, deplatforming removed his ability to profit from his malignancy and brought some justice. Absolutism around free speech has become too simplistic and ineffective. Jones defamed those families and rained harassment on them during what must have been their life's most desperate nadir. The absolute need to stop Jones rendered an anaemic academic concept of online rebuttal pathetically insufficient. Noone who had a platform to also reach Jones' audience were interested in reeling back his lies, because they're all also surfing a wave of insane conspiratorial lies, it's their bread and butter.

Those alt right commenters/influencers (although the alt can now be removed, Trump and the GoP have brought them squarely inside the tent) hate being held to a standard of truth and bury that under 'protect free speech'. The political right in America, in particular, but Dutton has been employing their techniques. The right's support from their base falters if they can't be frenzied by falsehoods.

gu3st September 1, 2024

@snorks If the basis is fact, then that, for the most part, can be verified, so noone gets to police speech on the basis of whether or not they concur, rather it's whether it is truthful.

Using that filter, Alex Jones doesn't get to lie that anti-2A actors committed Sandy Hook, profit from it and unleash crazy 2A activists on bereaved parents.