@raphjd
The viewpoint you espouse here - that anyone who disagrees with you cannot possibly be a conservative - and constantly labeling them (us) as "*liberal", as-if it was a dirty word - is going to be the death of the Conservative movement (or, here in the US, the Republican Party).

Thank God for old style Conservatives, like US Congressman Adam Kinzinger: a smart, honorable, politician who has declined to fall for (or accept) the cult of personality or the dependence on lies and conspiracy theories that have overtaken the conservative parties of both the US and UK.

So you know: the only PAC I gave money to in the 2020 election cycle was...

(drumroll)....

The Lincoln Project... a Conservative, Republican PAC that opposed the re-election of Donald Trump. Count me a proud Conservative who is also a never-Trumper...

But don't worry: I'm not a slave to labels. I'm a registered Republican now: but, I won't stay with a political party that refuses to accept hard data, denies science, and depends on lies and conspiracy theories to convince weak minds of its rightness. And, as an American, I absolutely will not fall into a cult of personality!!!

The problem with this bill is that it (like so many other "social engineering" attempts) solves a problem that either doesn't exist at all, or is already handled by other means.

Let's be clear about this bill though:

• the PRIMARY FOCUS of the bill is not to ban the teaching of LBGTQ+ concepts to grades K-3... no, that's a no-brainer, and a false-flag designed to disguise the real "meat" of the legislation - which is to empower parents to sue school districts over the teaching of LGBTQ+ positive messages.

This is not unlike the Texas law that empowered pro-lifers to sue abortion providers independently and separately as a method of driving them out of business.

Even so - what, exactly, is a Florida Kindergarten teacher supposed to do next year when 5 y/o Billy draws his family - with himself, his dog, and his two mommies?

Oh, and I want to lend my support to those who correctly identify the "grooming" concepts being touted by some in the media (and the Governor his idiot-self) as being anti-Science (like that's new for them) and fear-mongering at its worst!

You cannot "learn" to be homosexual - but you CAN learn to accept homosexuality as a natural occurrence! One seen in nature far beyond humans and other primates!

Americans are incredibly gullible... almost to the point of being stupid.

Does it seem like the Government is just printing more money? Really?

It should!

Because that's exactly what's happening! We're not "selling treasury bonds" to pay for COVID... we're just "printing money!!!" -- and we (Americans) can actually do this (and get away with it) because we're the "default" currency for the rest of the world (technically: the "reserve" currency).

The "concept" of US Government debt comes from a time when our currency and "money supply" were tied to "the Gold Standard" (and GOLD was the world's "Reserve Currency")... today, this ain't that! Back then, the world's economies were a "zero sum game" - for me to make more money, someone had to lose money - because there was a finite amount of gold to go around. There is no reason for that anymore - we can ALL get $1400 in cash, and ALL "win" -- without there being ANY losers, because we (technically, the US Treasury) can LITERALLY just print more money!

One of the first times we "dipped into" the idea of just pumping cash into the economy (with no real "debt" as a result) was the economic crisis that Obama inherited... only thing was, they were dumb enough to think that the "right way" to inject all that cash into the economy was to "give" it to the banks! After all, if you give THEM the money, they'll LEND IT!!! Right? That's what banks do? Lend money? (Edit: I should give credit where it is due: It was George W Bush's administration that thought up of the idea of "quantitative easing" and resolving the banking crisis with a cash injection - Obama inherited the solution! He just had to execute it, and he did that poorly... to be kind to him!)

Nope... and that's why the "economic recovery" under Obama was so unbearably slow... Banks propped up their balance sheets with that cash... bought back stock with that cash... paid HUGE bonuses to their executives with that cash... and loaned VERY LITTLE of that cash!

Trump and the Republicans were far smarter when it became clear that COVID was was CRUSHING our economy in 2020... f**k the banks, give the cash DIRECTLY to the American People! They'll do what the banks didn't: they'll SPEND IT!

Prudent people would pay off their debts (credit cards, back rent)... that's what the "professionals" (the banks) did last time.... but that's not American! No, we BOUGHT SHIT! And it WORKED!

The problem with that formula, though, is that when you put soo much (too much) cash into the economy, there is inflation... keep it up and you can ALSO get yourself back to the 1970's nightmare: stagflation (inflation with a stagnant economy!)

Long story short - we're not borrowing the $2T for COVID relief (or, the $3T for infrastructure, if that passes)... we're just "injecting it" into the economy... in layman's terms: we're just printing money!

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That's me too... I can't get to sleep at night if I haven't cum... and since I don't have my soulmate to offer up his sweet behind anymore, it's just me and lefty

Thank God for porn - but if I'm honest, I sleep best when I beat off to interracial porn and think of/remember my ex...

BTW: @Ricky -- I'm 57 you're a young sprite !!! LOL

@raphjd said in National Debt Exceeds $123 Trillion, or Nearly $800,000 per Taxpayer:

@bi4smooth

It's only disinformation because you don't like what is being said.

You believe everything that CNN, Rachel Maddow, and Joy Reid pull out of their asses because they hate Trump nearly as much as you do. You don't care that they have been proven to be liars several times.

There you go again with the inflammatory and incendiary ranting...

For something to be a lie, it doesn't just have to be wrong, the person stating it has to KNOW - right then and there - that it is wrong... AS they are saying it!

When I walk into the door of your home and smell the dinner in the oven, I can honestly, say "dinner smells wonderful"... when I later learn that dinner is going to be Swansons in the microwave, and that what I smelled was your neighbor's BBQ... I didn't lie! But I sure as hell was wrong!

I don't watch Rachel Maddow (or any other show on MSNBC) - any more than I watch the non-news shows on Fox News... I generally don't look to the "talking heads" to tell me what I should think.

I honestly don't know who Joy Reid is at all...

I happen to know about the "national debt" (and the paper-tiger that it is) because I studied it during my MBA education. Yes, I would say my professor was a liberal... no, I wouldn't say he was wrong (at least not about everything).... He had some ideas I thought were liberal (and wacky), but the majority of the class was about economic facts - and how to tell the fact from the opinion. Also, how to detect "spun" facts.

It was the 2nd time I'd heard the Mark Twain quote:
"There are 3 types of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, & Statistics"
(Mind you, he didn't invent the phrase - but he did popularize it!)

If the torrent is still on the tracker, but is just dead (no seeders, no leechers) - e.g.: you can still SEARCH for it, but you have to use the "including dead" option on the right), then you can start to re-seed the file simply by re-downloading the .torrent, and then pointing the client to the already-present file.

The "techincal" term for this is "scraping" the file - that is, you download the torrent, but already HAVE the content, so your client winds up CHECKING the torrent (vs. downloading it), and almost instantly starts SEEDING it.

NOTE: This is EXACTLY what happens when you UPLOAD a torrent here!

You upload a .torrent file to the tracker, but the tracker has to make CHANGES to the file, so you have to download the MODIFIED .torrent file, and "scrape" it in order to start seeding it!

@chanelkokoro said in Teenage knife fights are no big deal, say liberals:

@bi4smooth

This seems slightly off. The military is much better trained than police are, they kind of have to be.

How is it "off" when you re-state my case?

US Police forces have been trained (in 30-second intervals) to behave like our military - and given some of the same weaponry and other "tools of warfare" - and then turned loose on our own population.

... with less training than a barber or cosmetologist!

And then we stand back and wonder why innocent (and hell, even guilty) people are killed by those same poorly trained, improperly trained (that is: trained in the wrong skills - for military operations, not policing ones!), overly equipped officers?

@massafera said in Why is everything new being deleted from the "Fan Sites" category?:

Literally every single torrent is being deleted for the past week, every single one. Admins should be transparent and tell us why this is happening. It's only fair with users! Why would we waste our time uploading huge files and trying to download something if it's just going to be removed in a few hours?

What is happening? Can someone PLEASE explain?

It sounds like a DMCA "sweep"

My understanding of OnlyFans is that THEY claim copyright ownership of the material on their site (apparently in conjunction with the artists? I don't see how that would work...)

So, if that's true, my guess is that OF has some way of accessing this site and they're DMCA'ing the OF content.

Any other explanation, gentle readers?

@chanelkokoro said in Teenage knife fights are no big deal, say liberals:

@vmalar also we don't know why person a had the knife, it's possible she was defending herself, and it's possible she may have been the person to call the police in the first place.

to me it's just pathetic how cops shoot people to death the minute the situation becomes a little inconvenient. They rather someone else's life end than working harder to defuse a situation. This is what our taxpayer dollars are going towards?

Many American police departments use militarized training tactics:

• ELEVATE tensions and exert complete and total control
• civilians who resist - especially those with weapons - are treated as "enemy combatants" and are open ("eligible") for lethal repercussions

The vast majority of US law enforcement are never trained in de-escalation techniques, nor are they rewarded for non-violent interventions that defuse a situation, thus avoiding an arrest... to the contrary, they are often evaluated based on the number of arrests made.

A commonly cited, but equally true statement about US law enforcement training is sad, but telling: in most jurisdictions you need more hours of training to become a hair stylist than to become a police officer.

@iaman said in Onlyfans should have gone under...:

onlyfans is not a porn site, you shouldn't sub if you don't care about that person

OnlyFans was created to be a forum for artists to create/sell access to their works (originally intended to be art and music) without the need for the "art establishment"...

As has been noted, it turned out that the "art" most people were interested in was pornographic.

At first, OF tried to "turn a blind eye", which failed - 75% of their content providers are peddling pornographic material.
Next, OF tried to "purge the porn", which failed - 75% of their content providers are peddling pornographic material!
NOW they are simply sitting back and squeezing the "goose that laid the golden egg" for as long as the ride lasts...

As for complaints about the contributors, that's like going to the Mall Management to complain that your Mrs. Fields Cookies were stale! If the content sucks, you're following (paying for) the wrong providers! OF is just the "mall management" (or, perhaps more accurately: the flea-market management!) - they are not responsible for the quality of, nor any real part of, the contents that are "for sale"!

For what its worth: I agree that most content on OF is of little to no real value... and when you factor in the time it takes to obtain the material, it's even of negative value!

I can't remember the last OF content I even bothered to D/L from here, much less pay for! But that's not OF's fault! Just like those ultra-cheap socks you bought at the flea market that fell apart the first time you tried to wear them aren't the flea market's problem!

@jsl76 said in Teenage knife fights are no big deal, say liberals:

What it really boils down to is this: Under the current policing and use-of-force logic in most U.S. police departments, the shooting of Bryant was appropriate and justified. It's tragic, to be sure. But it fell within the scope of the officer's training. There's room to disagree as to whether this ought to be the logic of most police forces -- but that's a different, broader argument. People will disagree, but given the reality of the situation, I don't see an alterative that makes any sense. The Bryant case is a very, very weak hook for "police should be less violent" arguments, because there are many other, better, cases to shoehorn that perspective.

The real question isn't whether the officer did what he was trained to do: when presented with a potentially dangerous situation, escalate to the point of forced action, then overwhelm the offender with lethal violence. (Let's be clear: he brought a gun to a knife fight!)

No, the real questions are these:

• Are we properly training our police... at all (regardless of the role we want them to play!)?
• Do we want to train our police officers to be "protectors" or to be para-military "enforcers"?
• Are we enabling our police officers to do anything BUT escalate and control?
• Are we glorifying the "SWAT" and other violence-based, militarized police units (which have a role, no question) to the detriment of the increasingly rarefied "beat cop" who establishes relationships with citizens and seeks to "keep the peace" (vs. "enforce the law")....

When a cop today encounters an enraged woman flashing a knife, should he:
a) draw his weapon and eliminate the threat - real or potential - with lethal force, as quickly as possible, or
b) try to de-escalate the situation: try to calm her down, convince her to drop the weapon and then arrest her, or
c) get other people away from the situation (to safety) & then try to get more information about what led to the current crisis... try to understand the situation, and find a non-violent solution

When the situation is over, what is the desired (most likely to be rewarded) result?
a) the perpetrator is in a body bag and everyone else is safe
b) the perpetrator is in handcuffs and everyone else is safe
c) the perpetrator is in the back of the squad car, on the way to a hospital to be evaluated, and everyone else is safe?

Honestly, in today's policing, the answers here are a) and a)... and that is frightening!

@setecho said in How to choose a good freeleech torrent to increase my UL?:

I'm pretty layman about it, once I downloaded a torrent that gave me 10 gb of UL. but most just give me kb

Which torrent criteria provide the most UL points?

I've suggested this approach several times before, and I stand by it:

• The point of downloading a FreeLeech torrent is to get something other people will want to download - AND - to be one of the people that they download it FROM!

The thing to remember about FreeLeeches is that, while the download is free, it's the upload (that still counts) that you're looking for! That, and because a lot of people NEED upload credits, they are VERY POPULAR to download!

So you look at FreeLeech items available right now: the vast majority of them already have TONS of seeders - and may or may not still have leechers.

MOST OF THE FREELEECH torrents you see right now will not help you!

• After you download the content, you're in competition with dozens or even hundreds of others who are also seeding it already! (As you'll see below: they beat you to the punch!)
• Because it's been FREELEECH for a while already, MOST of the people who want it, already have it! So the number of leechers coming on NOW is likely to be low.

So, when IS it a good time to get in on the FREELEECH wagon?

ONLY AT THE START!

When you get in on a FREELEECH at the START of the period in which it's going to be free, there won't be many (usually) seeders yet - and the number of leechers will likely grow quickly. Get in there, get your files, and YOU can be one of those "at the start" who are seeding to dozens of leechers simultaneously.

If you actually want the content - FREELEECHes are good anytime...

If you want seed points from FREELEECHES, get in EARLY - otherwise, there's too much competition. It won't HURT you, but it won't help you the way you want it to, either.

Finally: if the goal is to seed, don't worry about the contents - if the new FREELEECH is masked Asian porn with Sumo Wrestlers - and that's not your thing - STILL download it at the start of the FREELEECH period! You can delete it later, but you want to be EARLY so that the people who DO want this content GET IT FROM YOU!

I hope this helps....

@manhandler said in Terrible News for the Vaxxed: by 2025:

@bi4smooth Oh, sure! You sound like a spokesperson for Big Pharma. You literally act like they're "science," when science changes every day. I'm not even reading everything you posted because you start out with nonsense nonsequitor bullshit. Oh yes, I'm sure you'll wait for the "reviewed research," by the same people that spout off all day that there are too many people and we're overpopulated and we're killing the Earth. They certainly are most definitely interested in your well-being and not their corporate trillions. God damn you're dumb.

I am educated enough to know about how dumb I really am... you, however, are just sad... is there any crackpot conspiracy theory you DON'T believe?

I must say, if we were to take as fact that we're both delusional, I'd much rather live in my delusion - where there aren't armies of cannibalistic pedophiles in positions of power trying to inject me with DNA-altering drugs...

I'm just saying: your life - your world - as you describe it, really sucks!
I'm glad I don't live in that world...

@raphjd said in Louden County VA high school tried to hide sex assault in bathroom:

The Louden County VA school board tried to hide that a girl was sexually assaulted in a high school bathroom, but a "non-conforming, gender fluid" person with a penis.

This became viral because the girl's father was arrested at the school board meeting for bringing up the topic.

"The Daily Wire that a boy was charged with two counts of forcible sodomy, one count of anal sodomy, and one count of forcible fellatio, related to an incident that day at that school." as quoted The Burning Platform.com.

All the reports I've read say that it was wearing a skirt, but only some have said it was wearing no panties and that its dick was just hanging loose.

As it is a hate crime to mis-gender a trans-person in Scotland, I will just say IT, in reference to the scumbag.

Not surprisingly, it's not a hate crime to mis-gender a non-transperson, cuz reasons.

BTW, Happy Hate Crimes Awareness Week.

This is a case where Conservative Media was on this and essentially forced the hand of MSM to pick it up.

To be clear tho, things aren't as bad as the right-wing media makes it out to be. From Newsweek's article:

• The kid (remember, s/he's a kid) who is accused is "gender fluid" - and yes, that apparently gives them access to use the girl's restroom... but sexual assault can happen virtually anywhere. Let's not forget that MANY cultures DO NOT separate bathrooms based on gender at all!
• The dad who was arrested was NOT arrested at the SB meeting for what he said, he was arrested because when he was approached and grabbed by a police officer, he reacted violently. I can't say as I blame him - but the policy being debated by the SB that night had nothing to do with bathrooms - it was a policy requiring school personnel to use the pronouns that the students request to be used for them.
• The school reported the incident to law enforcement, who asked them NOT to interfere with the investigation. It wasn't a "cover up", it was the school doing what they were asked to do by law enforcement - including NOT releasing information about an ongoing investigation.

NONE of that lessens the fact that TWO separate girls have reported assaults by this same individual.

BUT neither has there been any arrest or charges filed - it's not inconceivable that these stories are made up BECAUSE they're (the accusers are) transphobic!

THAT'S why we have police - to investigate and figure out what's fact and what's not.

It's a bad situation - a real shit-show - there right now... and there are either 2 cis-female victims of a very disturbed trans student, or there is a trans-female student being horribly victimized by these 2 girls.

Honestly, the best we can do right now is WAIT for the police to investigate....

ISPs are starting to use this tactic more and more - when they discover torrenting sites, they don't block them on your IP - instead, they stop resolving them in DNS (which, presumably, blocks them for all!)

As noted, one easy solution is to use alternate DNS solutions.

I, personally, use the CloudFlare DNS services at IP addresses 1.1.1.1 & 1.0.0.1. CloudFlare is a major Internet provider - just not in the "last mile" delivery of services. Their DNS servers are non-logging and if you want REAL protection, they offer DNS services over encrypted channels!

Of course, if you use a VPN, the DNS servers you use will usually be those assigned by your VPN provider - which can ALSO be overridden to use the CloudFlare (or other) DNS services!

@raphjd said in Liberals storm US Interior Department - liberals remain silent on act of domestic terrorism:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/reminiscent-of-jan-6-violent-protesters-arrested-after-storming-interior-department-injuring-officers

Absolutely more proof that liberals are massive hypocrites.

Reminiscent of Jan 6 because they attempted to "sit in"?

Let's see:

Goal of the protest:

• Jan 6: Overthrow the US Gov't to install defeated candidate as President
• Oct 14: Get Biden to change his policies

Total arrested on-scene:

• Jan 6: 1
• Oct 14: at least 55 confirms - some reports say more than 100

Individual persons identified as "targets" by protesters - threatening bodily harm and death:

• Jan 6: dozens, including the VP, Speaker, and multiple MOC
• Oct 14: none

Weapons brandished by protesters:

• Jan 6: Guns, clubs, maces, flags (used as clubs)
• Oct 14: none were armed

Last time there was a protest at each location where people illegally entered (breached) the building:

• Jan 6: August, 1814
• Oct 14: July, 2021

So you're right! There is so much in common!

For one, the Capitol Police and Federal Protective Services DID NOT just sit back and let this happen: they actually ARRESTED people and took them to jail - ON THE SPOT, not days/weeks/months later. LESSON FROM JAN 6 learned!

The attempts to make comparisons between these 2 events is nothing more than an attempt - by insurrection supporters (who are anti-American, if you ask me!) look less treasonous.

We burned down a forest and killed 5 people, injuring hundreds of others, and causing millions in damages...
Yeah, but that other guy burned down a tree and hurt some people too! Shouldn't we be treated the same?

Should these protesters have been arrested? Yes - and they were...

Should they be compared to Jan 6 insurrectionists?

No, and attempting to do so is downright shameful.

@lololulu19

You've made this same complaint over an over - at what point to you realize: no one here cares that you were punished, even though you have a large personal library and have been rather generous (by your own measure) with sharing that content.

2 things:

1. When they remove the torrents here, they are not affecting the library you have on your computer at all... can't you beat off to the OLDER Staxus content that you already have? (Specifically: so no one misunderstands: what I'm really saying here is that, once you download - or even when you upload - the site has no direct ties to the files on your system, and there are no trackers (sorry for the use of the torrenting term) either (though there USED to be some watermarked content, this site no longer does that - if it ever was done BY THE SITE to begin with!)

2. Your analogy to a library is badly flawed: If I purchase the latest novel from Steven King, read it, then give it to the library to allow others to read it too, that's one thing.
   But if I take Mr. King's novel, copy all of the pages onto loose-leaf paper, then sit outside the bookstore with a little sign that says "Why buy this novel? I'll give you a copy of mine for free!"
   It'd be one thing if we had purchased DVDs of this material (or, more modernly NFTs?) and mailed them to each other... but, this ain't that...

If you're so dedicated to the content from Staxus, spend the $200/yr to subscribe to their site! The models you love so much can then be paid to perform!

@raphjd said in BLM threatens riots if Mayor-elect Adams reinstitutes NYPD anti-crime units:

https://thepostmillennial.com/blm-threatens-riots-if-mayor-elect-adams-reinstitutes-nypd-anti-crime-units?utm_campaign=64470

There will be riots, fire, and bloodshed if NYC tries to fight crime.

It goes back to the video I previously posted where BLM admits that they are there solely to protect black criminals.

I do LOVE IT when the Dems elect one of their own to office & then immediately turn on them when they don't "toe the line" on every liberal (aka: progressive) nutball idea out there!

But, in typical @raphjd fashion (ok, typical Russian Misinformation Troll-Farm fashion), he takes Dem infighting and proclaims it a nuclear conflict!

Once again, read your own story:

• a NYC BLM leader, Hawk Newsome, predicted (not threatened) that there may be "bloodshed & riots" if newly elected NYC Mayor Eric Adams (a Black Man) keeps his campaign promise of reinstating the NYPD undercover anti-crime unit - one that previously had been targeted at (nearly exclusively) Black & Latino neighborhoods, and disbanded in 2020 as a result.
• When shown the Right-Wing media reports (like @raphjd's source) - proclaiming a threat of violence, Newsome himself claimed that he was talking about Adams' campaign promises - and noted that when he personally spoke to Mayor-Elect Adams on Wednesday, he was bothered that they "didn't offer a comment on police reform" during those talks.
• Newsome did re-iterate that his group would (again) take action should they feel the NYPD is targeting their community, stating "We will be at his front door, we will be at Gracie Mansion, we will be in the streets if he allows these police to abuse us."
• But Newsome also clarified in the same, written, statement: "I am not threatening anyone. I am just saying that it's a natural response to aggressive oppression, people will react."
• On Thursday, Mayor-Elect Adams reiterated his campaign vow to reinstate the plainclothes cop units. He also downplayed Newsome's comments regarding an uproar occurring if the undercover cops return, stating: "They didn't say any of that in the meeting" Wednesday.
• Adams added: "I ran on a very clear message: My city will not be unsafe and that is what we're going to do. Clear plan: Putting together a plainclothes anti-gun unit—that will happen—and the city is going to be safe."
• Adams also took a shot, Thursday, at the power of Newsome's group (one of several under the BLM "banner" in NYC), telling the NY Post that the group is "not representative of the Black Lives Matter movement" and adding (regarding the "threats" of violence as the Post was reporting) that he didn't think their group "had the power" to organize itself that widely.

So - lots of important parts to the story, but no threats of riots (just predictions that they would come if the NYPD targeted their communities again).

More importantly (to my mind): this is just more PROOF that the Dems can't govern! For all of their pie-in-the-sky talk when they're on the outside looking in, they can't even agree to fight crime during a crime wave when they're "in power"....

Personally, while I love the anti-Dem reporting, I could do without the hyperbolic twisting of the facts... they (Dems) SUCK at actual governing well enough, we don't have to give them ammunition to argue back by inflating the truth!