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  • On the post: Trump Launches America’s Newest Concentration Camp, Complete With Tacky Merch

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2025 @ 02:48pm

    Jefferson said it long ago

    Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference! — Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

  • On the post: Noem Announces Military Will ‘Liberate’ LA From Democracy, Then Watches Security Throw Senator To Ground

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2025 @ 07:13am

    He will absolutely not get convicted. I don't see any route to either side getting two-thirds of the Senate seats, which is what the Dems would need to get a conviction, given the Cult of Donald that is the GOP. Whatever mechanism we want to employ to stop this fascist takeover, it sure as shit is not impeachment.

  • On the post: Justin Baldoni’s Defamation Suit Against Lively, Reynolds, NY Times Has Been Dismissed

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2025 @ 10:10am

    There's more nuance to it than that, but you essentially have it right. Statements made within a lawsuit can have qualified privelage, as those statements are themselves the subject of the civil suit. Were those statements found to be defamatory, meaning lies told with knowledge of their falsity, there are mechanisms for punishment for that, but they otherwise are assumed to be made in good faith as part of the suit itself. Otherwise, every single civil suit could be countersued for defamation and you would see that all over the place. https://www.bdblaw.com/privilege-defense-in-a-defamation-case/

  • On the post: Sen. Joni Ernst To Constituents Regarding Medicaid Cuts: We’re All Going To Die, Someday

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2025 @ 09:13am

    Very cute, but inaccurate, as per usual. IL just passed its 2026 budget. It is balanced. GOP in IL are reduced to not liking how the accounting is done in the numbers when it comes to specific programs, but even they aren't trying to say it's not a balanced budget: https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-senate-passes-state-55b-budget-new-taxes-sports-bets-nicotine-products-income-sales-not-affected/16619774/ And the state is most certainly not seeing any kind of material decline in population. It goes up, it goes down, it goes up, it goes down in the past five years. The longer term trend is one of population growth, not decline. https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/states/illinois/population

  • On the post: Sen. Joni Ernst To Constituents Regarding Medicaid Cuts: We’re All Going To Die, Someday

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2025 @ 06:19am

    I can see your point here and it reminds me of my favorite bible story, the Good Samaritan, where the Samaritan sees the suffering person dying after being robbed on the side of the road, heads over to provide help, but then remembers that nobody has paid for him to ease the suffering of others and spits on the poor person instead, before kicking him in the ribs for good measure. Also, your entire post is essentially an advertisement for raising taxes, particularly on the wealthy.

  • On the post: Palworld Patching Out More Gameplay Features As It Seeks To Invalidate Nintendo/Pokémon Patents

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 15 May, 2025 @ 05:41am

    You'll see more on the EULA changes shortly :) That said, I wasn't aware of the Brazil piece of that. I'll have to look into it.

  • On the post: Trump Admits He Could Get Abrego Garcia Back, But Angrily Insists Non-Existent Tattoos Are The Reason He Won’t

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 02 May, 2025 @ 12:36pm

    It's quite easy to understand how the actual points in the post flew over your head, given you were down on the ground licking Trump's boots....

  • On the post: US Measles Cases On Pace To Eclipse 2019, 1994 Case Numbers

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2025 @ 09:22am

    "The risk to the general populace (who all have measles shots) is fairly low." This is a misunderstanding of the state of things currently. The general populace is NOT all MMR protected. Current vax rates for MMR among the public is at roughly 93%, less than the 95% required for herd immunity protection. In addition, that vax rate has been falling for several years and is continuing to do so. This puts many more people at risk, while also allowing the disease to infect more hosts and, potentially, to evolve beyond current protections. IOW, this is a problem for all of us, not just the unvaxxed.

  • On the post: A New One: House Speaker Blames Video Games For Medicaid ‘Abuse’

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2025 @ 06:02am

    Wow

    Your confidence in whatever tool your using to try to split a hair this fine is misplaced, my friend....

  • On the post: When Good People Make A Mistake They Try To Fix It; If They Don’t, They’re Not Good People

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2025 @ 06:25am

    Just wait...

    Until we find out that this victim of American trafficking is no longer alive. He had a status preventing him from being sent to El Salvador for a reason, after all....

  • On the post: Amid The Measles Outbreak, HHS Cuts 1/8th Of Workforce

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2025 @ 11:39am

    I was not aware that HHS held dominion over the healthcare of other nations. I recognize that every time you comment, you're trying to make a plea for every country other than America, but this post and those before it are about the American HHS secretary. What exactly are you looking for?

  • On the post: A Bipartisan Roster Of Former FCC Officials Say Trump FCC Boss Brendan Carr Is Taking A Giant Dump On The First Amendment

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 02 Apr, 2025 @ 08:03am

    And what if they decide to deceive, or are perceived to have deceived, audiences in a way that doesn't specifically involve so-called "doctoring" or an interview. That's the problem with actions like this. They aren't as closed-ended as you seem to think they are. For example, should Newsmax even have a license anymore after this? https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/newsmax-agreed-pay-40-million-settle-defamation-suit-over-2020-false-election-2025-03-13/

  • On the post: A Bipartisan Roster Of Former FCC Officials Say Trump FCC Boss Brendan Carr Is Taking A Giant Dump On The First Amendment

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 02 Apr, 2025 @ 07:39am

    Careful....

    You folks really, REALLY don't want to go down this road. The GOP won't be in power forever and eventually this sort of censorship program will be turned around on the likes of Fox, NewsMax, etc. I don't want that to happen. And neither should you.

  • On the post: Elon Musk Is Said To Be Getting The War Plan Against China

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2025 @ 10:20am

    I'm sorry, are you somehow so naive so as to think that great and mid-sized powers don't have contingency warplans drawn up in the event of a real life conflict? What are you actually complaining about?

  • On the post: RFK Jr. Blames Malnutrition For Measles Outbreak’s Severe Illnesses And Deaths

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2025 @ 09:02am

    As usual the Onion killed it on this. Headline: Vaccine Critic RFK Jr. Backs Measles Vaccine Amid Deadly Outbreak Reaction from a "reader" “I’m glad my kids aren’t alive to hear this.” Anders Bechtol, Croquet Commentato

  • On the post: Dear Democrats: It Would Be Nice If You Could Lead, And Not Off A Cliff

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 07 Mar, 2025 @ 02:21pm

    One would hope it's not a plan

    Trump is pushing the constraining boundries out further than they've ever been. He's amassing more and more power to the Executive Branch. One would hope that the relative silence on all of this from Democrats is not a product of one simple truth: assuming we remain a democracy, the GOP will not be in power forever. I very much hope that the Dems aren't greedily biding their time....

  • On the post: Make It A Trend Part 1: Valve Releases ‘Team Fortress 2’ Source Code

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 06 Mar, 2025 @ 06:02am

    You may have seen in the headline that this was a "Part 1" :)

  • On the post: Trump White House Announces That It Will Decide Who Gets To Cover The Administration

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2025 @ 04:43pm

    And you're starting to see serious regret from some of them in interviews. Not all, or even enough, certainly. But some of them. There will be more. Love the profile name and pic, btw ;)

  • On the post: Xbox Boss Surrenders In The Great Console Wars

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2025 @ 01:24pm

    Point out the error.

  • On the post: Xbox Boss Surrenders In The Great Console Wars

    Dark Helmet ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2025 @ 10:51am

    "then I have no idea what the word niche means." Outstanding, allow me to help. While the word has multiple definitions, this is the manner in which I used it: "a specialized segment of the market for a particular kind of product or service. "he believes he has found a niche in the market"" Nintendo has carved out a customer base for itself, quite successfully in fact, that is a non-majority percentage and one which also seeks something different from what Sony and Microsoft were producing with their consoles. This manifests in many, many ways, but here are what I think are the two best examples:

    1. Prioritizing Nintendo's great first-party franchises over 3rd party AAA games
    2. Prioritizing slick, often inventive experiences with the hardware rather than power and graphical visuals
    Both of those are so self-evidently the reality of Nintendo consoles vs. the others that if you disagree with THAT, then this conversation is over because you're not dealing in reality. Put another way, Nintendo was never at war with Sony or Microsoft. They were busy gobbling up different customers/territory than the other two. Hence, they're a regional, niche player outside of the console wars (this was the entire point of the literally two sentences in which I mentioned them in the post). By contrast, Nintendo ABSOLUTELY was in a console war with Sega in the 16 bit days and for a while after that. And it WON that war with the final, culminating battle being the relative flop that was the DreamCast compared with the GameCube, released a few years later, which outsold the Sega by more than a factor of two. Are we now clear, or are you going to find a different, admittedly creative, reason to be upset?

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