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I'm super glad Ted Lieu has kept up this line of questioning to keep it in the media. Needs to be said.
Yep. They need to start taking down a list of names of officials that are obstructing the process of law, including trump's maladies. It's national security shit, not a popularity contest, and it's irresponsible for a national leader to play fuckaround with this kind of stuff, and the enablers must be held accountable for their parts.
This community's rule 1 ought to be amended to require posters to uncensor headlines. The White House Communications Director called a Congressman a "dumbass" and a "bitch." Not a "bi**h," a "bitch." And also stooped to some kindergartener-esque mangling of the Congressman's name from "Lieu" to "Lewd" while he was at it.
Readers -- especially American citizens -- should not be shielded from the full impact of that disgrace. Stop the sanewashing!
It might be to combat the algorithms they are used to fighting against. These words get posts removed automatically almost everywhere but here.
There is no such algorithm on lemmy. If you're interacting with a platform that forces self censorship like this...maybe don't.
Not directed at you specifically.
There is a replace filter on lemmy that replaces words in a configurable list with removed, though. I would argue there is some kind of algorithm for this present albeit visible rather than the invisible hiding of entire posts.
Yes, there probably is one in that regard. I meant that an algorithm doesn't curate your feed for engagement; you can sort posts in several ways but there is no tuned algorithm feeding you posts to keep you scrolling.
These are some of the lamest insults I've ever heard. You can't even explain to someone how dumb they are, because you've already forgotten what they were.
Maybe ChatGPT should take Cheung's job.
Limited vocabulary can be a sign of mental illness.
Especially the mental illness known as dementia.
It's Cheung, though.
Yeah, I was digressing.
Fair.
You can always tell it's Cheung just from the severely limited vocabulary. I don't think that guy made it out of fourth grade.
Cool. So Ole' Poopypants is going to keel over soon right?
Cheung only exists in this admin so headlines like this can be written about what he says.
He's literally just a fat troll whose job is to insult people.
That’s what I call “winning”
I take that massive anger in the reply as a confirmation. So he is right then?
Yeah it's called old age.
I thought it was called “being alive”.
He’s one of the few democratic representatives this ain’t true of
I love Ted. He's very quick, he's not shy, and gets right to the point.
Everybody has a terminal illness. It's called life. Last I checked, death still comes one to a customer. I guess Trump doesn't like being reminded of the fact that he's probably definitely going to Hell.
I don’t believe in hell, but for dumpy, I’ll make an exception
Likewise!
Well, the White House is the actual "bitch" and "dumbass" here.
I wonder if they will ever understand how their reactions let us know what is true. I hope not.
I will never forgive the Trump voters.
They do not deserve the company of those who tried to warn them.
They are more concerned with satiating their egos than understanding the world or how government works… or anything else at all really.
They are pure ego and emotion. They don’t care about anything else.
They don’t care.
That is the problem.
In fact, I’d go so far as to say many of them don’t even understand why WE care, so much so that it makes them angry that we do.
The people who don’t experience empathy (psychopaths), or who can simply turn their empathy off (sociopaths)… are pissed.
They’re tired of the Information Age confronting them about their lack of humanity.
They want to be evil anonymously again, or at least to have the government make it feel similar.
Nobody wants to be confronted by journalists and activists while they’re destroying the environment and exploiting other human beings.
They’d prefer it if we gave them awards and monuments.