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Because the headline underplays it quite a bit the actual story here is that the Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results.

So just to be clear you can’t give me a top 3 list? Do you have a top 2 list maybe? Even a single example perhaps?

You’re making the claim that it’s one of the most important things to the average US citizen so surely you must be able to provide me with at least one clear cut example we can all agree on to make your point. There’s over 300 million people in the country I’m sure you can find one even if 3 was too many to ask for.

Because I have to be honest, my argument that people who yell about free speech are completely full of shit and have no principles at all is looking rather compelling right now.

No, no… don’t be lazy and try and palm this off to ChatGPT to make up some imaginary bullshit. Please tell me your top 3 champions of free speech.

please do go ahead and correct me and name your top 3 free speech absolutists so we can all see how I was “being too emotional” and couldn’t see the obvious truth right in front of me about how free speech really is a deeply held belief of the nation.

Ah yes, the famously fair and independent Republican Party. Terrific sourcing.

This is just such a ridiculous joke in 2026 that nobody outside the US and many inside it could continue to take the idea that the US has any actual interest in free speech as a principled argument. We have all just watched for the last decade the people who cried the loudest about it immediately do a 180 the moment they got the political power to practice it. I can’t think of a single prominent “free speech absolutist” who didn’t fail this test miserably and immediately. So no, I don’t actually believe that the US values it above all else, I think that’s some bullshit that people say because they are only interested in the idea that they personally can say and do whatever they feel like and it doesn’t extend beyond that in practice.

His entire account is dedicated to saying outlandish shit like this. There’s no position he won’t defend. Just downvote and move on.

It’s not a personal attack like it’s some disagreement. I’m simply accurately pointing out that the reasons you publicly state here have no resemblance to your actual activity on the website. You’re a dishonest individual whose hobbies seem to include policing what random strangers are allowed to talk about on the internet.

It’s already extremely clear that you don’t actually give a shit about the rules because you certainly don’t seem to make any effort to follow them yourselves. As someone else pointed out you’re just lying and misrepresenting things to stop others from talking, I really couldn’t have much less respect for someone like that.

I don’t know how to make this any clearer.

Nobody invited you to this conversation.

By your own admission you don’t want to be here.

Nobody else wants you here either.

So just leave and take your weird fucking content policing nonsense with you and let adults have a conversation in peace. Don’t you have some kids skateboarding on the sidewalk to yell at instead?

Edit: I see in your comment history that YOU have no problems in talking about politics on here… so it’s just everybody else that’s the problem? Do I have that right? Or just anyone you disagree with? And yet you felt the need to dress up your cowardice as some kind of moral argument. You’re exactly the kind of person I thought you were from the start it turns out. Congratulations.

Right… why do you think they spent so much time intentionally rigging the courts with illegitimate judges? They’ve been planning a non-democratic takeover of the country FOR A LONG FUCKING TIME. They are just more open about it now.

The EU has a plan to replace all of that in the pipeline already. That isn’t new, they are already like 5 years into it and I think looking to launch it next year. That one I actually don’t think is going to be a problem at all as a lot of it is already built and basically ready to go.

He absolutely is not going to accept it. He wants to die a free man and that plan runs into serious problems very quickly if he loses.

Absolutely nobody needs a fucking subscription model funded by VCs to shame them on a daily basis while you steal their personal data and use it to train a fucking AI.

But instead of hitting the hide button or just not clicking on it because you know you won’t like it you instead try to make sure that nobody can see it or talk about it?

That’s an incredibly gross personality trait.

The title accurately describes what happened without any sense of editorial sensationalism. The title doesn’t match word for word with what the original had but that’s not even close to the same thing you’re complaining about.

Try to use some critical thinking here before immediately jumping into conspiracy theories. Maybe start with reading the actual post rather than just seeing Google and geolocation in the same sentence and forming your opinion based on that.

The moderation on this site is really such garbage. Filled with all kinds of weird and subtle manipulation, almost never openly acknowledged and they are more than happy to gaslight you when you confront them about it.

The gap between the rules as they are officially written down and the rules as they exist in practice is so wide that it’s basically unrecognisable when you start putting them side by side.

The mods will just gaslight you as well about the entire thing. I know for some unknown reason it’s considered bad form to have anything other than a high opinion of the job they do but I think they do a bad job. I’m not saying it’s not a hard job or anything, I just think they are actively bad at it.

The mods absolutely endorse it though so in that sense it very much is them. They tend to be extremely dishonest and evasive when confronted directly about it but I mean anyone who has an account here can see with their own lying eyes that this happens multiple times a day, every day and it’s simply not plausible that it’s anything else other than something they support.

It’s far too late by that point

Yes this is because they are starting with a Java codebase and that obviously makes sense there.

You have other platforms like Google earth who when it was time for a proper rewrite went with flutter and dart along with a bunch of Google cloud stuff and Google Ads.

Just straight up making shit up here. WTF are you talking about?

Dart is hands down the best modern language out there for app development right now what are you even talking about? I understand that maybe a lot of people haven’t used it or maybe haven’t used it in years and that probably drives a lot of the FUD but for those who use it, it has stupidly high ratings from developers who use it and has for years.

Seems extremely telling that you would phrase things that way.