Wanting: tangent rant incoming about the site, not the article.
JFC, what a horrible source, that site is cancer
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Yeah, that is a lie
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Well fucking A, I have the right to object, but you’ll do it anyway
Great to know that you and your 1540 fucking partners all together respecty privacy, i feel so much fucking better already!
And mind you, this shit is the best we can get with the gdpr. Without that, it would be a hundred times worse than this.
But okay, let’s reject everything and try to read the article, shall we? Read the intro paragraph, okay, scroll down a little to read the next and boom I now have a search bar covering half of my page? That’s weird, where did that come from? It’s blocking literally 50% of the page, I can’t read shit. How can I get rid of this? Oh, a close button. Let’s naively close this, naively because we already know better but anyway, click… Aaaaaaand it was a fucking ad. Okay go back, reload page, scroll down aaaaand half the page blocked with another ad
So as you might have figured, this browser didn’t have an ad blocker (using Lemmy connects internal browser here) andr the site is completely and 100% useless, I can’t read it on a mobile device. So why even bother, then?
I’ll be adding themirror to my permanent block list right now, I won’t ever be able to see anything from that site ever again. I suggest you all do the same and that we add themirror to a list of banned sources for this sub or, better, this instance.
I’m so SO sick and tired of the crap that is now the internet. I gettit, these guys too need to earn a living, but there are better ways to set this up.
Let’s make a world wide independent foundation funded by all governments and that one can pay news organizations to write news. The only rule should be “be independent and truthful”. This is just a single dumb example, I’m sure there are even better ways but FFS, anything is better than this shit
I’m getting to the point where I think I’ll build a web scraper that will just take out the text, maybe a few relevant images, and the render that into a page that shows just that. I know a few sites that can already do that but I’d like something for myself, just self hosted or something.
Yes, it’s the middle of the night and yes, I cannot sleep and yes, this pisses me off because I just wanted to read some news to relax but instead I have to furiously rant because these fuckers again didn’t know that enough should be enough
/Rant
It sucks that we’re living through a legit fascist takeover, but at least the fascists are collectively as dumb as a sack of wet hammers.
The current front facing fascists are idiots. The ones telling them what the next move is, behind closed doors, certainly aren’t.
Fair enough, but counterpoint: if they were so smart, they wouldn’t be fascists.
And remember this: the Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.
hey now, don’t insult sacks of wet hammers like that
We must continue to fight the wet hammers at every opportunity. We can never relent, we must make their progress difficult or impossible.
They are incompetent, but the piles of money that push them forward is limitless, which means their efforts will also be limitless.
That’s what happens when you pick your cronies based on their looks and sycophantic tendencies, instead of experience and knowledge.
People debasing themselves and ruining their careers is basically mandatory. Each is hoping for a more important government job or contract after. And if that fails there is always hate-blogging and Fox news.
She was the only one stupid enough to actually try and go for it. All the other prosecutors they asked refused, I think some even resigned. She’s a different kind of stupid I guess.
She’s a different kind of stupid I guess.
She’s going to get a dozen book deals from conservative publishers. She’ll land a talking head spot on FOX News. She’ll hook up with Steven Mnuchin’s cousin or get Baron Trump’s baby in her or just marries a party mega-donor. Maybe she runs for AG in Virginia in 2029 and rides in on a Republican reactionary wave after President Pete Buttigieg shits the bed. If nothing else, they’ll be posting jerk-off material of her on Grok for the next twenty years. I’m sure there’s a way to monetize that.
If you think that’s stupid, you’re thinking she’s playing a different game. Her card is punched.
She’ll hook up with Steven Mnuchin’s cousin
I’ll have you know that John Oliver is happily married!
President Pete Buttigieg
Sweet merciful FSM, no!
Ugh, it’s all so disgustingly incestuous…
Simpsons writer?
Maybe she gets a slot on Bari Weiss’s 60 Minutes and a credit on the next Mission Impossible film
His kind of stupid.
Okay, but in their defense, Lindsey Halligan is an absolute smoke-show. She’s going to make a great replacement for Jeanine Pirro in another two years.
Well I mean in this case, her lack of competency and credentials were a per-requisite. No one with skills in law would have even considered attempting these cases.
I’m not familiar with the mirror, or their reliability, so here’s an article from NPR: https://www.npr.org/2025/11/24/g-s1-98612/trump-us-attorney-lindsey-halligan
And she’s fired in 3… 2… 1…
Can’t be fired from a job you never legally had. Taps forehead
