And they deserve to lose the lawsuit on First Amendment grounds. Full stop.
Anyone that actually knows the story behind it from a context beyond the anti-AI circlejerking narratives knows it was a form of comedic parody put together by comedians.
This is certainly a startegem from power brokers trying to destroy the freedom and open communication the internet ushered in over the last 30 years. Its all about controlling the spread of information to limit exposure of corruption that protects and builds the long term shadow wealth.
Now Im sounding like a different side of the same coin of early 00s libertairan twat conspiracy fuckers.
We're on the same page for the 'fuck this guy' sentiment but I don't specifically fault him for poor judgements made while trying to protect his kid. At the very least his son left the scene of an accident, but most likely his son was driving recklessly and/or drinking (drinking is the only remotely rational reasoning as to why a parent would go so far as to go to jail to keep the kid away from police in that scenario). Parents can be irrational when it comes to protecting their kids.
I fault him for being such a piece a shit that he will publicly in-a-goddamn-full-newspaper-ad demand conformity to malleable school rules of someone else's kids, while breaking the law himself to keep his own child from having to conform to society's legal rules.
I meant using his sons fuck up as an example of him being a bad person.
That's where everyone is going off the fucking rails in different directions from my edit.
I get trying to protect your children as a parent. I'm a father myself and can fathom a reaction of trying to protect a child to the point of going to jail over something.
You entirely missed the point yourself when you misunderstood the issue as related to him being held responsible for the crimes of his son. He committed the crime of obstruction regardless of whatever crime his son was suspected of, but that's not even the problem here.
What I CANNOT FUCKING ABIDE is the insane hypocrisy this fuck demonstrates through allowing exceptions to the LAWS for his child that he will defend and go to jail over, while demanding someone else's child fall in line to school guidelines that are malleable and far less rigid in both application and enforcement than any legal criminality.
This all reads like some purebred racial prejudice fully baked into governing committees remaining alive and well in pockets of Texas even close to major cities. Not that it's that different literally everywhere else that isn't a major metro/suburb/college town.
When Greg Poole was arrested and put in jail this past weekend, he said he was acting as a father and not as superintendent of the Barbers Hill Independent School District in Chambers County.
A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper has charged the Chambers County school superintendent with obstructing the investigation of an accident involving Poole's 16-year-old son.
The teen flipped his father's pickup and knocked over a utility pole about 3 a.m. Saturday on FM 565 near Cove, about 30 minutes east of Houston, authorities said.
The trooper arrested Poole for refusing to make his son available for questioning about the accident, the Texas Department of Public Safety said.
"Trooper Dunn asked him twice to produce his son, and he would not," said Stephanie Davis, Texas Department of Public Safety spokeswoman in Beaumont. "He never informed the trooper where he could find his son."
EDIT 2: Just to be clear, it's not the trying to cover for his son that is the problem to look at. As a parent myself, I get trying to protect your children even if it's poor judgement, everyone is allowed to make mistakes, child and parent alike.
What I CANNOT FUCKING ABIDE is the insane hypocrisy this fuck demonstrates through allowing exceptions to the LAWS for his child that he will defend and go to jail over, while demanding someone else's child fall in line to school guidelines that are malleable and far less rigid in both application and enforcement than any legal criminality. RULES FOR THEE NOT FOR ME.
When you objectively consider all of the information, it looks a hell of a lot like run of the mill racial prejudice.
You distilled what I said to a simpleton sound bite dismissal so you didnt actually have to apply any thought to a discussion. I say you mind your own business if your aren't interested in discussion and just want to flag wave your assumptions with no substance.
Shes putting 36.6 mil towards having people talk about changing the world by asking other people to talk about changing the world. Its a fucking ridiculous disconnect, put the money directly towards vetting and supporting candidates without setting up a middle man poltical org that will siphon the funds away through the excessive bureaucracy required to run such an org. Thats why it feels off.
There are already orgs out there trying to do what she is proposing to do.
It's 'cool as fuck' right up until he gets personally sued out of existence by Nintendos balls crazy legal team.
The excercise maybe made sense 10 years ago, before we all became were aware of just how uninterested Nintendo gets over cool shit that used any of their licensed technology.
She gave her money to a group of people to support political causes related to taking money from millionaires. What a millionaire way to think they're making a difference by letting other people spend their extra money on politics.
Something just feels off with the sentiment. You can always voluntarily pay more in taxes so that the public services are funded. As it stands this moeny will get siphoned to the proverbial dice roll of politics that always has a taint of corruption.
Why would a grown ass adult put so much effort into an unlicensed dupilcation of copyrighted IP (Valve) and build it on top of a system from a company known for ridiculous enofrcement of IP that had a walled garden of access to their game system IP that is protected by the copyright cabal supported DMCA?
There's more sides and nuance to all of this.
He could've made Portal in the style of a 90s console instead of directly declaring it N64 and only had to tend with permission for it as a mod from Valve's sometimes permissive pov without crazy assed 'Tendo being involved.
Lars Ultrash was the most publicly outspoken and often quoted in the Record Companies PR propaganda push for the DMCA and against Napster. He came off like a greedy bitch at the time, and created the perceptions of Metallica as a cash grab sell out band more than they already were being seen as by long time fans.
Money is made up, Government is made up, Religion is made up, its all made up, lets not get lost in our own hubris of humanity on this.
We as human beings happen to have the intellectual evolution to make up all of these variously complex systems of organization. The scientific method itself is such an improvement on our made up bullshit because it created a system to test the viability of the ideas for systems we make up. Your perspective mandates all suspension of disbelief to accept it at face value without any room for nuance.
At the end of the day, a phrase itself which is just the made up concept to describe the period of our planets revolution in which light from our star is no longer visible from our line of sight perspective, stacking economics and government spending on top of imaginary debt has an instinctual feeling of wrongness even before trying to systemize that feeling into our made up definitions of ethical/morality/legal systems.
Welcome to humanity, where everything is made up and the points dont matter unless you perceive them in a way that matters. I swear I'm not high right now.
