"pepper in?" "PEPPER!?" Why not salt? Is it because pepper is traditionally black!? You racist! :)

I'm not disagreeing that there's some potential hypocrisy or irony here - I just don't see any relation between the things in your list.

Of course there is. It’s in support of the narrative that people need overseers and that some people know what’s best for the world and others don’t. We live in a time where there are a couple of agendas that everyone is trying to push, it’s all deeply related

Put it on the blockchain! Just kidding...mostly...

> I’ll choose not to [...] dialogue > just strengthens the divide

Non sequitur, but ok. There seems to me to be plenty of room for interpretation (and potential for foul play) in the TOS. Maybe that's an exaggeration, but to call it a "complete lie" is itself to misrepresent facts.

The linked tweet and article claim that PayPal can pull money out of your bank account. There's no way to interpret the ToS like that; it clearly says this possibility only applies to your PayPal account and any money in there.

The biggest conspiracy theory is that those who disagree with you are conspiracy theorists...

That's a nice trite little saying, but it doesn't fit reality. I mean it's not like an angry group of right-wing people reply to every single tweet by democratic politicians, right? Why do you think HN is above that kind of thing?

And a story that claims that PayPal is out to hamper free speech is exactly the kind of lightning rod that would attract such people.

Trite? You're the one who brought up BlueAnon. (And if you're going to virtue-signal "HN is above that kind of thing," I'll remind you that whining about downvotes is against the guidelines)

There seems to me to be plenty of room for interpretation (and potential for foul play) in the TOS. Maybe that's an exaggeration, but to call it a "fake news clickbait" is disingenuous.

If there's room for interpretation, and you say "it absolutely means this very clickbaity interpretation" then yes, you are doing a clickbait, my friend.

Even GPL uses "copyright"

But not "all rights reserved".

Americans? What did we do to you? (Besides the regime-change and proxy wars, and blowing up that pipeline - Sorry about all that.)

Honest question: Why not do what most of the ass-clowns do when they get in front of congress - "I don't know, Senator. I have no recollection, Congresswoman. I plead the 5th, You Honor. No, we don't spy on Americans." etc.? Seems like no one ever actually faces any penalties for this.

...which he apparently forgot all about the very next day. I don't know what they had him juiced up with (maybe Pervitin, appropriately?) but that's the most coherent I've ever seen him before or since.

The simple solution to the contradiction you propose is: He is a doddering old fool, who is controlled by dangerous demagogues. (And actually, this might describe his predecessor as well.)

But that doesn't mean we can't appreciate when they occasionally do something good (regardless of their motivations), and this is one of those times.

Well we’re have to agree to disagree then. I also don’t think trump was being controlled. These guys are not always on, but you can see that both of them are making decisions and those decisions taking place.

There’s no drug in the world that makes someone go from doddering to able to give long speeches and stay on point.

Between Manning and Assange, whom do you think is more deserving of a pardon?

False dichotomy; pardon them both, plus Snowden.

But if what you're fishing for is that Assange did more for the world, was more dis-proportionally persecuted with less legal justification, then yes.

The idea I’m trying to explore is the appropriateness of all the presidential pardon decisions. I agree with you, both deserve pardons.

Listing the pardons by appropriateness is just one component that may help analyze the issue. That’s what I meant by asking the question.