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Matt Mullenweg returns as Automattic CEO two days after getting booted

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Seems how? They didn't say anything like that. You think the issue with this guy is because he's rich and nothing else?

The funny thing is I've seen people saying the exact same thing you are to people laughing at Charlie Kirk getting killed, while doing their best to ignore all the things he stood for, said, and did. Right down to immediately accusing the person of adopting (an incorrect idea of) Nazism by not valuing all lives as precious. Just think about the brainpower behind people who think those laughing at Charlie Kirk are like the Nazis but not Charlie "Civil Rights was a mistake" Kirk.

There's gotta be a term for people who get all righteous about treating all lives as precious while they ignore that the person in question actively makes the world worse.

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The only thing idiotic here is that art=idea and therefore no art can be stolen. To prove this, go take some art from your nearest museum. I'll wait.

But tell me more about how stealing someone's art for use by AI is an authoritarian idea created by the capitalist class, and how the idea that all art is up for grabs by anyone so it's totally okay to use it for AI is not the idea from the capitalist class. This is the kind of explanation that deserves some popcorn.

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‘You Did Undermine Your Dad’s Presidency!’ Mehdi Hasan Holds Hunter Biden’s Feet to Fire Over Business Dealings

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No part of this comment says Hunter Biden should not be Democratic party business.

He’s politically-relevant to the current state of the Democratic party, a fucked up election, and corruption of Joe Biden. Democrats repeatedly ignored his crimes and conflicts of interest as a nothingburger. Dems being tribalistic about “one of their own” instead of simply holding him accountable did them no favors.

You literally say he's politically relevant to the party before launching into what the party should do with him, in disgreement to someone saying he's not relevant to the Democrats.

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NYC Mayor Mamdani releases 9/11 records showing officials misled New Yorkers about air quality around Ground Zero

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I did and the results showed it as just a basic term to describe an occupation in politics.

None of the examples here have it as a pejorative:

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/political-operative

Here's an Atlantic article about political operatives and what they do, nothing negative about the term per se:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/02/the-life-of-a-political-operative-explained/253130/

Here's a blurb on Georgetown's site referring to a political operative as a regular job stream in politics:

https://politics.georgetown.edu/get-involved2/advance-team/

Here's a guy who's calling himself a political operative just fine:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2t2sxk/iama_political_operative_ama/

So where did you get the idea that being called a political operative is a negative thing?