Posts made by bearbearbear
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The Ravings of Mad King Trump
On the pandemic, the economy, health care, and his 2020 opponent, he is utterly detached from reality.
https://thebulwark.com/the-ravings-of-mad-king-trump/
Emulating a frightened oldster hearing the first, faint echo of senescence like a distant signal on a transistor radio, Trump bragged to Chris Wallace about acing a test designed to detect the onset of Alzheimer’s or dementia. But his problem is different—instead of entering his second childhood, Trump seems never to have left his first.
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The Pandemic and the GOP’s Science Problem - The Christian Taliban?
The party’s uneasy relationship with science goes back decades.
https://thebulwark.com/the-pandemic-and-the-gops-science-problem/
Recent headlines highlight Dr. Rick Bright, the federal scientist whose terminal sin was challenging Donald Trump’s coronavirus quackery. But the GOP’s aversion to expertise did not originate with Trump—or his disastrous response to COVID-19.
“It’s hard to know,” writes Max Boot, “exactly when the Republican Party assumed the mantle of the ‘stupid party.’” But one might look to the 1970s as the gateway to a politically calculated dismissal of scientific knowledge.
Having allied with evangelicals over social issues, the GOP’s political class found it expedient to honor fundamentalists’ most fundamental premise: creationism. Evangelicals flocked—and the GOP became an anti-evolutionary haven. As recently as last year, Gallup found that 55 percent of self-identified Republicans—as compared to 40 percent of the general population—agree with the statement “God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so.”
Conservative media vilified evolutionary science. “Everybody that believes in Darwinism is corrupt,” pronounced Rush Limbaugh in 2010. “Liberals love anything that allows them to say there’s no God.”
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More regressive authoritarian fascism
Facing a furious nation, Belarus’s Lukashenko says he would rather be killed than agree to new elections
We held elections. Until you kill me, there will be no other elections.
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The Most Tremendous Reelection Campaign in American History Ever
Inside the chaotic, desperate, last-minute Trump 2020 reboot.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-reelection-campaign-2020.html
People on the campaign say they believe — have to believe — there’s a way forward. If they just win North Carolina (where Trump leads by an average of one or two percentage points), Florida (where Biden leads by five), and Arizona (Biden by two), states Trump won in 2016, then they need only one state in the so-called blue wall of Pennsylvania (Biden by six or seven), Wisconsin (Biden by seven), and Michigan (Biden by seven or eight). These three states had gone Democratic in every presidential election since 1992 before Hillary Clinton lost them by 77,000 votes combined in 2016. Staffers assume that Ohio is already a Trump lock, although Biden is ahead there, too, by an average of more than two points.
“I don’t think we’re gonna lose this campaign,” said Bob Paduchik, Trump’s 2016 Ohio state director and a senior adviser to the 2020 campaign. “I don’t think we’re losing this campaign.” He told me the polling averages didn’t show Biden winning Ohio. I said that was wrong. Well, Paduchik said, the RealClearPolitics average didn’t show Biden winning. I told him that was wrong too — that I happened to be looking at that particular website as we spoke. Even Rasmussen, Trump’s preferred polling outfit, had Trump down by five, I said. “No,” Paduchik said, Rasmussen didn’t have a poll like that. When I said it sure did, that I was looking right at it, Paduchik said he couldn’t speak to that poll since he hadn’t reviewed it himself. Either way, he said, the polls were silly, based as they are on the premise that they measure how people would vote if the election were held today. “Well, the election is not today!” he said. “We haven’t had our debates and our convention yet. It’s sort of a fantasy guess.”
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RE: STD again
well i went to a urgent care earlier this morning and they gave me a shot and some medicine to help with the affection, I have to take my medicine twice a day for a week
Okay, good to hear that you followed up and hopefully the pills will do the trick. Make sure anyone you have had sex with is treated and they need to tell their partners, too. Good luck!
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RE: How old were you when you find that you gay ??
I guess was between 10-12. I was playing with my peepee one day and suddenly I started to think about a friend of mine and thought "hmm.. it would be nice if he fucked my ass", the rest is history
Basically, that's everyone's story, but the way you put it is especially hilarious! :cheers:
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RE: Created cover art when official cover art is not available.
I don't keep covers for videos but I do like to have them for music and have fixed many and cropped and adjusted photos to substitute for a few missing ones, but have never done anything like creating a missing one that looks better than the originals, as you did. A lot of people would like to use them and the torrent page is an obvious place to put them. I don't know if you can or should or want to claim credit for them for legal reasons, but maybe you could get work doing covers and other graphic art if you're not already a professional graphic artist.
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Black Americans 2.5X More Likely Than Whites to Be Killed By Police
https://www.statista.com/chart/21872/map-of-police-violence-against-black-americans/
In 2019 data of all police killings in the country compiled by Mapping Police Violence, black Americans were nearly three times more likely to die from police than white Americans. Other statistics showed that black Americans were nearly one-and-a-half times more likely to be unarmed before their death.
Overall, in 2019, 24 percent of all police killings were of black Americans when just 13 percent of the U.S. population is black – an 11-point discrepancy. Mapping Police Violence also showed that 99 percent of all officers involved in all police killings had no criminal charges pressed against them.
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Regressive theocrat in Virginia campaigning on an anti-LGBTQ platform
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/16/us/politics/lgbt-bob-good-congress-va.html
Bob Good, a self-described “biblical conservative” who is the Republican nominee for a House seat in his conservative Central Virginia district, is hoping to rally clergy members with meetings this week attacking a new state law prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, which he characterizes as an assault on religious liberty.
And in at least one of the invitations directed at clergy members and Republican county leaders, which was obtained by The Times, the organizers of the event make clear that they intend to leverage anti-L.G.B.T.Q. sentiment in the district to generate enthusiasm for Mr. Good.
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RE: Seeding a torrent that has no demand
There won't be much demand for a torrent a day after the freeleech ends and even if there were, there are likely to be a lot of seeders. However, there are plenty of torrents with only one or two seeders. Occasionally someone will download them. Part of what makes a torrent site useful is being able to download torrents that aren't currently popular, whether it is older classic films on a site like thepiratebay or specific fetish porn on sites like gt.ru.
If you are keeping the video on your computer anyway, it doesn't require any significant resources to continue seeding it, except that when someone actually downloads it from you, it uses internet bandwidth.
When I am the only seeder or one of just a few seeders of a torrent and I no longer want to keep the video, I usually make it freeleech to give it a better chance to survive.
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RE: GayTorrent.ru requires a login unless you are a search engine/bot?
I like being able to use a regular Google search for this site because it is easier to pinpoint what I'm looking for and also torrents that are no longer available here sometimes show in search results. The on-site search feature here has been very wonky at times, to say the least.
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RE: Tracker offline?
I have four downloads waiting for about 24 hours saying they are looking for peers. Sorry if this is in the wrong place to seek advice.
Thanks pisakidWhat do the individual torrent pages here on gt.ru say about the number of seeders and leechers?