@raphjd said in Because the science says so:
I think he's saying to punish the business for following the corrupt law.
Laws are laws - you don't "fight" a law by ignoring it, you fight a law by protesting it, and working to elect representatives to CHANGE the law...
So - if I'm reading you right, you're not just an authoritarian (when Trumpty Dumpty is in power), but you're an anarchist when he's not!
Yer a reel prowd Merikan!
@raphjd said in Proof that black privilege is real:
Clearly, you are one of those people that believe only whites can be racist.
@Raphjd - you often make that statement - as-if the fact that other people can be racist is somehow an excuse for continued white racism...
What I find amazing is that you (y'all to be more correct) seem to forget that "racism" exists within White cultures and Black cultures alike:
ONLY IN AMERICA is race defined so distinctly and resolutely - nearly solely - by skin color!
This blended view is so unlike the rest of the world - and it's also why Whoopie Goldberg got into so much trouble with her comments that the Holocaust wasn't a racial thing... to HER MIND, the Holocaust was white-on-white!
In the US, it's hard to keep the Greek/Turk "war" going on when the both have been marrying the Irish & the Italians & the Portuguese - & maybe even some Asians or Blacks to boot - over the generations... Indeed, many of those "warring factions" have intermarried in the "melting pot" of the US.
And, if you haven't noticed yet, the same is happening more and more frequently between the "races" that DO have different skin pigmentation! While my own heritage is nearly all Scottish & Irish (based on a DNA test), my grandchildren are a mixed bunch: one of my daughters married a Black man, another an Asian one... my grand-babies are a rainbow of fruity colors (racially), and I couldn't be prouder or happier!
But back to the point... 2 wrongs to not make a right, and the fact that some Blacks are racist against Whites, and some Jews are racist against Gentiles, and so on -- does not give you a "free pass" for the white supremacy that is rearing its ugly head in the US today... wrong is wrong is wrong.
I have no problem when @raphjd says some BLM activists are racist... I DO have a problem with excusing the actions of KKK marchers with a "what about BLM?" argument...
@lololulu19 said in Proof that black privilege is real:
@raphjd and yet.. n-words call other n-words the n-word all the time. If they banned the n-word, rap music would vanish overnight.
For once, @lololulu19 has a valid point...
@lololulu19 said in Proof that black privilege is real:
@msoft You joined this site in 2010.. 12 years ago.. yet your profile says you are 21.. which would make you 9 years old when you joined.
How is it possible to be a member of this site for 12 years, and still be a LURKER?What are you doing here?
Instead of LURKER.. you should be labelled what you really are.. a TROLL.
OK, a couple of things:
For that matter, my own profile shows:
Joined 23 Jun 2008, 00:43 Last Online less than a minute ago Age 21
Can YOU see a pattern?
Probably not: it shows EVERYONE as being age 21 - likely because we don't enter our birthdays anywhere on this site!
From a post in 2014:
Ascending these classes is based on the number of posts –
| Class | Number of posts |
| Lurker | 0 |
| Newbie | 3 |
| Jr. Member | 50 |
| Full Member | 100 |
| Sr. Member | 250 |
| Hero Member | 500 and above |
If those "classes" were active today, I'd be a "Hero" (1700+ posts), and @lololulu19 would be a "Hero" as well (620+ posts) (note: these numbers are visible to all under the USERS tab at the top of the page)
Mind you, we also used to get SBP on the torrent side for posting in the forum - that doesn't apply anymore, either!
@raphjd said in Black Nationalist and liberal darling charged with attempted murder of Louisville mayoral candidate:
I'd trust a crack addict over you, any day.
You already so...
search Qanon... cut/paste... repeat...
@orhaqi123 said in Ottawa police run through protesters with horses and kill at least one:
https://twitter.com/alissagolob/status/1494815873944616960
Full on tyranny happening in Canada.
A lot of Gov't overreach going on in Canada these days - but this isn't a valid description of what's in the video...
Long story short - while the Gov't of Canada is doing some pretty aggressive things lately - towards their own citizens - this isn't one of them...
@raphjd said in Trudeau says Canada will stand against authoritarianism:
It's been discussed here many times before. We were originally told that the vaxx would prevent us from getting/spreading covid.
You continue to be a whore to your Russian masters... forever more!
We've been through this before:
The COVID-19 vaccines do exactly what every other vaccine does, and has done, since 1798 (the first smallpox vaccine - the first ever human vaccine - was invented in 1798).
Let's be clear... first about what vaccines ARE NOT:
It's helpful in understanding those statements, if you understand what vaccines are actually developed and designed to do: vaccines are designed to trigger an immune response in those who receive the "treatment". That is: the point of the vaccine is to prepare the host (human body) to more effectively fight (by itself) the targeted pathogen. As a result:
So, why is it Scientists say that vaccines "prevent" the disease? Well, in most cases the pathogens multiply inside the unvaccinated human host, who then spreads the pathogen to others. The longer the infection lasts, the more infectious the original host becomes.
Things work differently in a vaccinated host: when the vaccinated host detects the presence of the pathogen, the vaccine-boosted immune response keeps the levels of pathogen growing in the body much lower. For some pathogens, this means that the level of infection never rises to the point where the host is contagious, in others (with particularly virulent pathogens), it reduces the period of time that they are contagious.
Most pathogens do not make the host sick immediately upon infection... it takes time for the pathogen to "build up" before the effects are noticeable by the infected host. Again, the "pathways" for vaccinated and unvaccinated hosts differ:
THIS IS HOW THE COVID-19 VACCINES SAVE LIVES
Not through some magic that creates a barrier that prevent the virus from entering the body. Not by directly attacking the COVID-19 virus itself (that would be a TREATMENT - like an antibiotic for some bacterial infections - not a vaccine!).
No, just like all the other vaccines we already have in our lives... by strengthening our own bodies' immune systems! Like we have been doing for over 200 years, now!
No vaccine (and, indeed, no treatment) is 100% effective. But Trump's new m-RNA based vaccines are EXCEPTIONALLY effective, and require a TINY FRACTION of the research and testing time needed to adjust (tweak) for variants - or even for whole other diseases!
The m-RNA technology that Trump jumpstarted will be a game-changer in immunology research! (No, he didn't invent it - but he gave it the funding and attention needed to move it a decade or more along in its research "path"! And that has saved untold thousands - perhaps even millions - of lives!)
And your whining that it doesn't "prevent all infection" (it never could - not even by design!) or "prevent all contagion" (also never could - also by design) won't change any of that! We won't "unlearn" the science, and 10-years from now, MOST of our vaccines will likely be based-on the m-RNA vaccines developed for COVID-19!
Trudeau has been photoed/videoed without a mask, despite his mandates for his own people. It's not just him, but all world leaders.
Again, you act as-if Liberals were the only hypocrites! OK, maybe they're more hypocritical of mask-wearing rules - but that's just one example! Conservative lawmakers are hypocritical in all sorts of areas too!
That doesn't make their hypocrisy any less important or any more acceptable... but dogs who bite need to be handled too - but aren't worthy of headline-level attention!
OK, so some ass clowns joined in. But did the truckers do any of the violence BLM and Antifa did and still do? Your government gives them money while calling truckers "domestic terrorists".
OK, so the Canadian Gov't doesn't list BLM or Antifa as official Terrorist Groups (domestic or otherwise) - and neither do they list Truckers (See here)
Who they DO list includes the Proud Boys and the Three Percenters - organizations who support the overthrow of the current Gov't, vs protesting for change within the current Gov't. (It's a subtle difference - I doubt @raphjd will get it!)
For the record, the Canadian Gov't never called the truckers "domestic terrorists" - they said they were acting like domestic terrorists! There's a difference! I can say @raphjd acts like a Russian agent without meaning that he is actually a Russian agent! (I can show the former, but I cannot prove the latter!)
@Postwhore02 said in Trudeau says Canada will stand against authoritarianism:
@raphjd Allow me? Proof's in the pudding darling. You're the only one here. Hypocrite. Yeah, I can stalk you but it doesn't discount the fact you don't post this anywhere else, just here on "YOUR" site. Prove me wrong and start posting your "tolerant" views elsewhere too
To be fair to @raphjd:
Does any of that excuse his hard-headed refusal to ever admit to being wrong? Or even "misinterpreted"? Of course not! But as I do in other areas of this Politics section: let's be fair and avoid unnecessary hyperbole.
We can disagree without insisting the "other guy" is stupid or just-plain-evil! (even if one, or both, are actually true LOL)
@raphjd said in Trudeau says Canada will stand against authoritarianism:
You are full of shit. They said that getting the vaccine prevents you from getting and spreading covid. Sure, later they changed their tune.
Why must you continue to "micro" analyze "macro" scientific statements? Having 80% of the population taking the vaccine would prevent the spread of the virus - on a macro (population) level, not an individual level.
It's not worth repeating - you insist on misinterpreting the statements to meet your own twisted idea of being "right"... I could no more convince you that they've been truthful in their statements than I could that Mary was a fraud and Jesus was just another kid, albeit one with some very uncommon ideas for his time.
No - both of those are faith-based beliefs, and no science or fact will dissuade you from that... and arguing with you more on that subject is like wrestling a pig in shit - you both get covered in shit, but the pig actually likes it!
Trudeau is an authoritarian. You don't have to invade another country for that.
Trudeau is exercising the powers that were given to him by his own democratically elected Gov't. Indeed, in some cases, the Canadian Courts have held that he's exceeded his authority!
As an Authoritarian, he should have sought to replace the judges, or declared the courts to be illegitimate! (See Putin's behavior in Russia over the past 20 years or so where he's been the President and/or Prime Minister - in spite of term limits or 8-10 years!)
Nope - he took the losses in the Courts and changed to rules/policies that were upheld...
Speed Limits and Seatbelt laws were once derided as "authoritarian" - and to the degree that you use the term, virtually ALL laws are authoritarian!
Viva Anarchy! (at least until the mobs turn against YOU!!!
Trudeau has personally praised both BLM and Antifa, as has his Deputy PM.
No argument that he's praised Liberal causes... he's a Liberal! <I know! I was shocked, too!>
Are you shocked that Donald Trump praised the Proud Boys and 3 Percenters? I am not! - and those organizations are ACTUALLY ON the Terrorist Groups recognized by both Canadian and US Gov'ts!
Why must you downplay everything BLM and Antifa do?
I don't downplay it - I just don't buy into your hyperbolic representation of what those groups stand for!
I don't believe in what they stand for, and I agree that some of their demonstrations have gotten out of hand... but none of the rioting or looting was for the purpose of overthrowing the Gov't! It was just people being "Mad As Hell, and Not Going To Take It Anymore!" Out of hand? Yes... Criminal? Yes... Terrorist? No... Treasonous? No... I can't say no to those last 2 for the Proud Boys or 3 Percenters....
But these aren't the ONLY Liberal groups that go "over the top" sometimes... Greenpeace has crippled ships in the Pacific in the name of "saving the whales"...
And it's not limited to Liberal groups... Some Conservative "activists" go over the line - tho most not AS FAR as the Proud Boys, et. al....
LOL, shutting down traffic versus rioting, looting, and murdering. I see you and Trudeau are of the same mind.
I see - and if I lit a movie house on fire and locked the doors, it'd just be a "prank" for locking the doors? Your "description" of the truck drivers' protests as "just blocking traffic" is equally "under-reporting" the facts...
Have you forgotten what your side has done in DC and elsewhere? Maybe you should use DuckDuckGo and have a look.
"My side" is not BLM, or Antifa, or even Democrats - much less Liberals in general. "My side" are the "Rational Republicans" who believe in principals of smaller Gov't, more freedom, and fiscal restraint. I also believe that "my side" doesn't have all the answers - there are valid points to be made by some Liberals... which is why compromise as a Governmental Art Form is necessary... to work out which parts of "my side's" beliefs about what's best, the "their side's" beliefs about what's best will actually work, and which ones won't... keep the good, dump the bad.
Of course, you will always make excuses.
I present facts, not hyperbolic interpretations of facts... those aren't excuses.
@raphjd said in Trudeau says Canada will stand against authoritarianism:
Blah, blah, blah
You weren't active until very late into Trump's Presidency.
Trudeau is still an authoritarian, as are Putin and Biden. Just because they are not exactly the same does not negate their authoritarianism. Even you have said this exact kind of thing before, about others.
You pretend to be an expert in everything.
I post links and you refuse to look at them, even when they are official government records because it doesn't fit with your narrative.
By your definition, Trump was an authoritarian as well!
I am an expert at very little (mostly IT-related issues) - however, I'm a pretty good researcher, and I make my living using "critical thinking" to solve problems for my clients.
You, on the other hand, spout Russian propaganda as-if it's religious material and refuse to admit to as much as a typo of a mistake!
@serenity said in Why people need to lead by example:
@raphjd Kyle Rittenhouse killed two people and wounded another. That is a fact, that even his defender didn't say that he didn't. The question was, if it was murder or self defense.
What? are you saying he murdered the survivor?
(Just pulling a @raphjd on you there!)
Can we get back to the original post? You posted a doctored photo in support of your "everyone else is as racist - or more so - than me" theory... and got called out on it.
I think if I were you, I'd just delete the whole conversation here... call it a mea culpa, and move on... you have the power LOL
@hubrys said in Clinton-Backed Haiti Pastor Indicted on Child Sex Charges.:
I don't understand what the point of this post is supposed to be. Are you trying to allege that the Clintons knew Corrigan Clay was a child molester when they started working with his ex-wife's charitable organizations? What's your evidence for that?
If that's not your point, then how does this man being a child molester in any way tarnish the charitable good that the Clinton Foundation attempted to do here?
Are you just taking joy in the fact that a minor was physically, sexually, and emotionally damaged because it might, in your twisted mind, harm the Clintons? Geez, you mean your hatred of the Clinton's is greater than your empathy for children? Shame on you!
No, he's taking joy in the fact that the sicko child molester was - in any way or at any time - associated with the Clinton's.
Guilt by association - a common Trumpite tactic...
@raphjd said in Clinton-Backed Haiti Pastor Indicted on Child Sex Charges.:
It's strange that only I only ever hear what Qanon believes from liberals.
I'm guessing you guys get your news from Democratic Underground.
Your lack of curiosity re: Q-Anon is telling... afraid you'll find your source material and discover just how much bullshit you've been "consuming" lately?
I know this is "click bait" for me, but this is attacking the child (albeit adult child) of a political candidate/rival who has no part in his father's political operations, campaigns, etc.
Should the Left do a deep dive on Tiffany or Barron Trump?
I don't think so...
Mike drop - I'm outta this thread...
First of all, Mark Levin is a Conservative radio talk show host - it's his job to say outrageous things.
Secondly, @raphjd is again screaming fire when someone lit a match.
Did the Jan 6 committee alter the text message in a placard used in a hearing? YES
What did they change? They inadvertently added a period.
Being that validating the content of a text message would be impossible to do, naturally the Dems covered it up, paying AT&T millions to keep quiet... right?
Well, no... actually validating the content of the text message was easy, and when it was pointed out, the Dems recognized their error and apologized for the minor slip.
BTW: This is where your vaunted Mr. Meadows claimed to live - for the purposes of voter registration - in NC:
The 2020 picture is beginning to clear:
Trump's team was so sure that the Dems had cheated because they KNEW that THEY had cheated - and the only logical explanation for their loss must've been that the Dems cheated even more!
@raphjd said in Levin Calls For Schiff To Be Disbarred Over Doctored J6 Committee Text Messages:
Clearly, you have a pathological need to defend the DNC/CCP at every turn.
"Inadvertently" I guess that's the same thing that happened in the FBI with the CIA email about Carter Paige and the FISA warrants.
Are you seriously suggesting that the accidental addition of a PERIOD when some intern made a poster out of the message actually altered the message content - in any MEANINGFUL way???
R-O-F-L ... it comes full circle now!
Read the article...
Hunter Biden conspired with other Democrats from the Clinton and Obama administrations, along with those evil Ukrainians (what happened to the Chinese?) to release COVID-19 to get Trump out of office!
Of course, they planned the COVID-19 crisis - because it's so common that US Voters choose to oust a sitting President during a crisis! (Historically - not so much! Had Trump handled the crisis as most Presidents would: by galvanizing the country around a unified response, he'd have been re-elected in the landslide he always dreamed of! Instead, he turned it into a political football, blaming others for stupid things and setting Americans against Americans over a distrust of science! DOH!)
Re-read the article - without the "world-view" that every one of the 7 billion people, except for the 70+ million who voted for Trump in 2020, were conspiring to get him (Trump) out of office...
@gerggently said in Dems who once decried "loose canon" Trump, now defending Biden "going off script":
Yes, which is why his remarks were so refreshing and the fact he's not backing down is making talking heads assplode is beautiful.
Refreshing? His remarks practically panicked our allies - who are even more AFRAID of war than Biden is himself - and fed the Russian paranoia that we were "out to get them" (You know the "red scare" we knew just a few decades ago? Well, they have their own "Yankee scare" culture!)
So many people who I had good time for are misinterpreting what he said, outside of the deliberately dense dullards at Fox and DSA, that I've stopped following a few dozen people on Facebook and Twitter.
Unfollowing people because they don't agree with your own interpretation of events ... how Trumpian of you! (You have learned well, grasshopper... the dark side of the Force strong within you!)
Speechwriters are not noted for their bravery.
Do you think Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" comment was "off the cuff"?
Speechwriters don't PUT the words into the politician's mouths, they POLISH the words that come out of their mouths! If Biden wanted to call for regime change in Russia - without giving Putin the soundbites he'll use to excuse many many more heinous war crimes - his speechwriters could have found a way....
I suspect the NSA is learning to "cull" actual national secrets OUT of Presidential briefings for Biden the same way they did for Trump... loose lips sink ships!
@raphjd said in BREAKING: Matt Gaetz Claims He Has Contents Of Hunter Biden's Laptop, Attempts To Enter Into Record:
Are you saying that Hunter's laptop, emails, photos and all are fake?
I'm saying the laptop's "bona fides" aren't clear, and remains a part of the Justice Dept's investigations...
Look, as I said before: Hunter Biden has a LOT of skeletons in his closet - REAL ONES - you DON'T have to make shit up (e.g. make claims that are still unclear as to whether they are valid)...
Hunter Biden:
So, we can all agree, Hunter Biden is not a "good guy"!
The contents of the laptop (who Hunter claims was stolen by Russians - making any contents suspect) remains a maelstrom of speculation from assholes who don't care about facts... if and when those contents are revealed in a credible way (like, for instance, as evidence in a trial!), we can then believe what's there... until then, the speculation has been rampant - with nary a credible source around...
One last thing:
Not even as a Senate Page when his dad was a Senator. (Again, it seems to me that Papa Joe has always known his boy was troubled - and kept him away from "important" parts of his life as a result. That said, as a father of 9, let me tell you - you don't love your kid less because they're a scumbag. You love them still. You try to protect them as much as you can. And you protect yourself from them!)
@raphjd said in BREAKING: Matt Gaetz Claims He Has Contents Of Hunter Biden's Laptop, Attempts To Enter Into Record:
Actually, there's a longer video which is much better.
Funny how Democrats don't want Hunter's laptop in the record.
If Matt Gaetz actually has the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop, and wants to read it into the record, well then:
1 - someone at the Justice Dept (who actually DOES have custody of the laptop in question) isn't just in trouble, they're going to prison for losing, and tampering, with evidence in a Federal Investigation
2 - let him read it (but insist he read ALL of it - for context, don't ya know)... including log files, events, and crash dumps! Assuming there's about 100GB of data on there, it should take him about 6-7 years to read aloud all of the data on that laptop!
This is such bullshit... an incredibly easy to disprove claim... maybe he's trying to take the heat off of Rep. Cawthorn - he who claims to have been invited to Capitol Hill orgys and to have seen other Reps do lines of cocaine!
Note: Cawthorn is being threatened with "being primaried" by his own party because his antics are so "over the top"...
I like a good Republican - but an asswipe is an asswipe, regardless of who they caucus with!
