Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson with a reaction to Kilmar Abrego’s story of the conditions inside CECOT:

We’re funding this with taxpayer money. We’re living in Omelas, only it’s worse and there are millions more being tortured than just one child. There’s no walking away though. We have to fight this. We especially have to fight the normalization and rationalization of this.

In second place, it’s glenn with a comment about assaults on ICE agents supposedly spiking:

Is it really “assault” when you defend yourself from “undercover” thugs attacking you on public property? Sounds like self-defense to me.

For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we start out with That One Guy and another thought on the assault statistics:

No wonder they went with percentages instead of actual numbers.

Those numbers are so low given the explosion of interactions what with the kidnappings apparently even ICE can’t be bothered to report when they bruise their knuckles on someone’s head, which really undercuts their ‘Being a member of the US gestapo is the most dangerous profession in the country, that’s why they have to hide all identifying marks’ narrative.

Next, it’s TKNarr with a comment about the Supreme Court’s ruling on nationwide injunctions:

The Court is also turning the whole principle behind injunctions on it’s head: instead of viewing injunctions as a way of maintaining the status quo pending resolution of the questions being litigated, it’s removing them so that changes to the status quo can’t be blocked until after resolution of the litigation. Therein lies a very corrosive problem.

Over on the funny side, things haven’t picked up that much since the last two weeks. Just two comments (both in response to Tennessee banning books from schools) eked their way into receiving a badge, so we’ll present those here and forego the editor’s choice. In first place, it’s Heart of Dawn expressing surprise at some of the banned material in question:

John Calvin is his namesake

I thought Republicans would love Calvin and Hobbes. It’s about a loud-mouthed white male with an imaginary friend who loves to make up fake monsters, does a lot of grandstanding, hates girls, bends the rules to suit himself, and generally behaves like a child.

In second place, it’s Miles Archer seeking some silver lining:

Heck, it’s really hard to get kids to read. Perhaps telling them a book is banned will get them to read one of them.

That’s all for this week, folks!