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Lol. Of course it does. People will absolutely judge you by the company you keep. You're being willfully naive if you want to pretend that people won't judge you by the company you keep.

You're turning yourself inside out over this. Free speech has nothing to do with the market. It refers to the government regulation of speech. Always has. You are free to say (almost) anything you want without the government limiting your expression of opinion. But, as the old saying goes, free speech does not mean speech free of consequences. There have always been social and economic consequences to free speech. If you say the wrong things, people may not want to do business with you or to be associated with you. If companies were intolerant of "free speech" they would exit jurisdictions with free speech provisions. Instead, companies like mine, pulled our ad dollars out of X when placing our ads on X became a risk to our brand equity. That decision has nothing at all to do with free speech.

You really are a joke. You're rooting for a man to win the presidency who quite literally tried to illegally seize power in defiance of a democratic election. And then you turn around and pretend that "the left" is the clear and present threat to democracy. lol "The only thing that can save us is swastikas in the public square! That's the only way we can be free. Bless Elon Musk!"

No, there's a very large difference. Telling X that they must moderate is an instruction to X. It's absolute. It says what X must do. Telling X that we won't risk our brand reputation by advertising on an unmoderated platform is an action of the brand. It says what the brand (customer) will and won't do. X isn't entitled to those dollars. Nobody "owes" X their patronage. If they want to earn the money, they'll have to create a product advertisers want.

I'm sure you think that was a clever comparison, but it's actually not. I think it's likely that you're ignorant of the meaning and usage of the word (which is fine, nobody knows everything). Gender has always meant the social constructs or characteristics related to biological sex, not the literal sexes themselves. If you've ever studied a foreign language, chances are you were taught about word genders--the masculine and feminine forms. I'll grant you that lots of other people have been confused on the distinction. "Gender" often pops up on forms in place of "sex," (I suspect that we're just a prudish people who are shy about the word "sex.") but that's a misuse. That's the invention of a "new definition."

Nobody is "demanding" that X do anything to anyone. Brands are simply voting with their advertising dollars. Welcome to the free market! If X wants those dollars they need to create a platform that is brand-friendly, and that means reinstating the content moderation that Musk foolishly gutted.

Yep. More domestic oil production than ever before. Net energy exporter. Record profits for the petroleum industry. The only reasonable conclusion is that Joe Biden is driving up the price of gas! 🙄

This is an entirely disingenuous reply--and you know it. Anyone who knows what "fair use doctrine" is surely knows that quoting lines or passages from an article as supporting evidence is in no way a quotation of "entire articles" nor are there any copyright implications. 🙄 Blatantly false. Domestic violence and gang violence were both accepted conditions for asylum prior to Trump. The Trump administration changed that policy. The Biden administration just changed it back. They didn't "expand the definition" they just put it back where it was before Trump changed the policy. It's fine for you to hold the opinion that asylum should only be for political refugees, but that is not the law. The reason that these things are being decided on a policy basis by each administration is because the law as written is not explicit, and when that is the case the executive branch is empowered to make those decisions. So, again, the idea that Mayorkas isn't enforcing the law is pure political nonsense.

A. Please cite the relevant portion of material you are trying to cite. Naked links are lazy, and almost always used, as in this case, to create the appearance of evidence without any substance. Sure enough, if you had read your own citation you'd see that the Biden administration didn't "expand the definition of asylum." They reversed Trump era policy opinions: " In June 2021, the Justice Department revoked the legal opinions that had disqualified migrants fleeing domestic or gang violence from asylum, and said those cases would be governed by the rules Mr. Biden ordered to define "particular social group." To be clear this doesn't even mean ungoverned, but simply through a different process. Meanwhile... B. Because, again, if you had read your citation (even just the headline!) you'd see that it undermines the larger point you are making. "After promising to expand asylum, Biden moves to limit access amid record border arrivals." It's literally and article about Biden limiting asylum access. C. None of this is relevant AT ALL because none of it has nothing to do with Mayorkas. Mayorkas didn't set this policy--that would be the POTUS and the AG. And even if he had, it would not be a case of "flat out ignored the requirement to secure the border" or "the government not following its own laws. Policy and legal opinion change--as they changed under Trump--but that's not ignoring the law. And at the root level that's why this impeachment was just asinine. Mayorkas is "guilty" of enforcing the laws and policies of the administration. Exactly as every other cabinet member in history. What did Nielsen do under Trump? Oh, yeah, the exact same thing. She enforced the policy of the administration. That's the job. What you're actually supporting here is the idea that every cabinet member can--and should--be impeached by the minority party simply for doing the job of a cabinet member in terms of executing administration policy. Literally, every single one, for every POTUS would be guilty of the same. It's a silly position.

That's just silly. The laws are being followed exactly as they were before the pandemic. The only thing that has changed is the volume of would-be immigrants.

This impeachment was absolutely a farcical political stunt. Literally no meat on the bone. It shouldn't have happened, but given the fact that it did, I'm not sure dismissal is any better for the country. As is often the case, the damage will be due later. The Republicans have established impeachment as a political stunt rather than a constitutional remedy for real problems. In response, the Democrats have established summary dismissal of impeachment along party lines. So where does that leave impeachment as a tool the next time something real comes along? The next time someone like Trump tries to extort foreign leaders for political campaign assistance?

Trump's stimulus was $2 trilllion. Biden's was $1.9 trillion. But the Fox news crowd will blame Biden alone for inflation. Hmm... For the record, both Trump and Biden did the right thing embracing stimulus packages during he pandemic. That was good and necessary policy. (Unlike Trump ramping up deficit spending in his first 3 years during a healthy economy.) Biden has scaled back deficits significantly from what he inherited, but if you cut spending too quickly it crashes the economy. It seems very likely that they've threaded the needle on this one. The economy is recovered and stronger than it was before the pandemic and they appear to have navigated the elusive "soft landing."

Yes, yes, we know that you think the entirety of the medical, scientific and academic community is all involved in a massive for-profit conspiracy. Turn off YouTube, take your meds and keep the cork on the fork.

That's how you know the One Ring was the real deal. Boromir sacrificed himself to protect it.

Good luck with that. Meanwhile, back in reality, people around the world are grateful for the millions of lives saved and untold economic devastation averted.

Yes, Reason10 2.0, graphs are just people drawing lines on paper. Like a kindergarten art class.🙄 Amazingly, "artists" all over the world have very similar art projects. You're right about one thing, BTW. The vaccines worked in Canada too. The exact pages you like to cite from Canadian data will tell you the exact same thing. You just choose to ignore it and use your own ass-backward "calculations." For years, you've been arguing that you are the only one right while the world's doctors, scientists, health agencies, academics and statisticians are all identically inept or conspiring together. Sure. Lol. Or perhaps it's just a tiny bit possible you're doing it wrong.

Snipping the rest of your rambling bullshit If you can't understand this basic scenario, that a vaccine making people 5x (or many times more in some cases) less likely to die from an infection, is a massive win, then you're a hopeless fool. ^^What kind of fool would look at that data and choose to be on the top line? What kind of fook looks at the data and can't understand the millions of lives saved worldwide? I guess saving minions of lives is worthless since it doesn't meet the standards of a sniveling, entitled twat like WestCanMan. 🙄

Lol. You clearly have no idea what the word "consensus" means, and you clearly have no idea just how radically fringe your views are. You've fine-tuned your information bubble so that all you get is nonsense. To everyone outside of the conspiracy kook sphere you are just a raving loon. I don't know how to coax someone back to reality, but instead of searching FOR other crazy people who agree with you, you might try just searching for answers. The world is full of experts, and there actually IS a consensus. You're just on the wrong side of it because you think anyone with a YouTube channel is equally credible. Really, I think age is a huge part of the problem. Some people are blessed with strong logical abilities and can effectively evaluate information sources. Others must be taught. And you pre-digital humans grew up with far fewer competing inputs. Broadcasting information was costly and had a high barrier to entry, so the market held them accountable. Not so in the internet age. Anybody can broadcast anything, and nobody taught you how to vet information. You have no natural immunity. So the market for misinformation and disinformation can make a fortune selling you bullshit with no accountability. But whatever the cause, take a look around and realize just how insanely far outside of the scientific consensus you are.

Sorry, dummy. I simply can't explain efficacy any more clearly, slowly and carefully. It's at an elementary level. If you can't understand it, that's on you. 100% of auto accident fatalities occur in vehicles with seat belts. According to your stupid "logic," that means seat belts are ineffective.🙄

I love that it's written down too. You've been consistently wrong in embarrassing ways for years, and clearly haven't managed to learn anything. True to character.

You are just abysmally hopeless at logic. Your fake quote is not what I said, nor an implication of what I said. Just nonsense you made up.

That's exactly the cycle we keep repeating. Clinton, Obama and Biden have all overseen recovery of the economy from the sad --sometimes historically sad states of their Republican predecessors. The historical "tale of the tape" isn't even close. Why do people keep trusting Republicans? None of them have left the country better than they found it since Reagan--and we're still servicing the record debt he piled on to achieve that feat.

He was a "reality show" heel, and that's just entertainment. But it's not so funny when the reality show heel crosses over into reality--and suddenly actual Americans think it's a good idea to make this amoral caricature of a human being into the most powerful person on the planet. Very un-funny.

The truth about Truth social is that it's a short-term scam to suck money out of stupid people and launder "donations" for foreign interests.

Yes, all the world's doctors, scientists and health officials are involved in a conspiracy to kill people with a vaccine and then pretend that it saves lives. And the only people who will dare tell the truth are random jackasses in the Internet. 🙄 It's time for you to turn in all your internet-connected devices, because you're clearly so gullible that you're one email away from sending your life savings to a "Nigerian prince."