Posts made by bi4smooth

@raphjd said in Portland antifa riot bomber sentenced to 90 days in halfway house:

From Andy Ngo;

Portland antifa riot bomber sentenced to 90 days in halfway house

Gabriel Agard-Berryhill, the convicted rioter who threw a bomb at the Portland federal courthouse besieged by antifa in July 2020, has been sentenced to only 90 days in a halfway house and 2-years probation. When he was originally released bail-free soon after arrest, he violated those release conditions by returning to a riot.

I previously interviewed his grandmother in an exclusive report for the New York Post. She was the one who accidentally outed her grandson through a review she posted online for the protective vest she bought him. Gabriel had a tragic and dysfunctional upbringing. He said in court that he was handed the explosive by an unknown person. I witnessed myself at riots in Portland how antifa members would hand out explosives and weapons to random people. The goal was for these random protesters to take the fall if there was ever any prosecution.

Read: https://nypost.com/2020/08/01/trump-loving-grandma-outs-her-own-grandson-as-portland-bomber/

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You guys might remember that this guy was outed by his grandma when she reviewed the fake bulletproof vest she bought him so he could go LARPing.

Have you seen the ugly old men who fuck those boys in the halfway house? 90-days of having to fuck them is cruel and unusual punishment! LOL

You're always smarter than the educated people, aren't you? In this case, you (and in this case, I mean Andy Ngo) - by virtue of your Russian News Media Feeds - know more about this case than the judge who sat through the trial!

And this is the guy you (@raphjd) post about today, and not the nut-job Jussie Smollett (fake hate-crime victim) who got himself an actual "Get out of Jail Free** card today?

@raphjd said in Wyoming state Senate voted to end gender studies program:

@bi4smooth

And again, you are defending a liberal shit course.

I'm defending academia... yes, there are bullshit courses, and no, some of what they "research" in "gender studies" likely isn't worth "researching" - but if you don't look, you don't find! (But the corollary is NOT true: if you don't look, it doesn't mean it isn't there).

Of course, you see ALL things with a "is it Liberal or Conservative?" overriding label requirement...

I don't think of academia (and Gov't intrusion on it) as a Liberal / Conservative issue.

I like mayo on my hamburgers... is that a Liberal thing, too?

@raphjd said in Why people need to lead by example:

@bi4smooth

Says the person who gets his news from Joy "I was hacked" Reid, The Root, Slate, and Salon.

That's the ticket! If you don't like the news, point out how bad the TV is!

For the record, I've never quoted from any of those places (and still know next-to-nothing of Joy "why-does-@raphjd-hate-me-so-much" Reid) LOL

@raphjd said in Wyoming state Senate voted to end gender studies program:

Yeah - that's the ticket! Pretend the genders are all alike, and prohibit any scientific study that might increase our understanding of why gender issues arise.

No! If you don't study it, it won't exist!

Nearly as absurdly STUPID as when Trump said we needed to test less to lower the COVID-19 numbers!

If you never walk into the forest, are the trees really there?

(In a word: YES!)

Prohibiting "gender studies" will not make trans people disappear!

@raphjd said in Why people need to lead by example:

@hubrys

Are you saying we haven't heard that kind of thing from white liberals before?

No, he's saying the image you posted was, like much of your material, FAKE

Why would it be incumbent on someone who simply showed your image to be fake to otherwise completely dismantle your "argument" - you posted a FAKE photo in support of a flawed (and racist) argument... he doesn't have to go farther!

@raphjd said in Trudeau says Canada will stand against authoritarianism:

@bi4smooth

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!

@lololulu19 said in Black middle school students are charged with a hate crime for 'beating up white students in revenge for slavery':

oh.. their punishment will be a 30 minute detention, and be hailed as heroes.

Maybe in your twisted world...

As I've suggested you should do in these cases, look for the LOCAL COVERAGE

Per local channel 10: (https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/03/11/bullying-over-race-at-coconut-creek-middle-school-gets-5-arrested-police-say/)

• The attack happened in a Florida Rec Center - an after school program near their Middle School (not in the school)
• 2 of the 5 children who were arrested were actually white
• the attack was clearly and obviously racially motivated, but contrary to some reports, there was no specific mention of "slavery" or "1700" - instead, it was shouted "this is opposite day" and "you're white" and "brown power"
• all 5 children are between the ages of 11 and 15 (15 would be rather old for a Middle School in Florida - but only by about a year or two)
• all 5 do attend a nearby Middle School - and parents from both sets (victims and perpetrators in this instance) report that bullying is common in the school, and that the school does little to nothing to stop it.
• Contrary to other reports, all 5 were charged with misdemeanors (common for "scuffles" between children), but the local DA is reviewing the case - there is a potential that they could still be labeled "hate crimes", which would make the charges felonies. In Fla, this is the normal course of action - arresting officers do not make the decision on whether to charge as a "hate crime".
• The whole event lasted only a few seconds & no one was seriously injured (at least not physically).
• The 5 children charged have been prohibited from returning to school pending a separate school investigation.

BTW: At least as-of today, the video of the reporter (who interviewed 1 parent of an attacker and 1 parent of a victim) is followed online by a story about a dude who whipped out his junk in a Starbucks in Miami and started following these girls around....literally beating off while walking behind them! The girls took videos while the store called 9-1-1...

Florida Man is alive and well! I live in one CRAZY-ASS State! (People used to think if CA as the "land of fruits and nuts" - we've got more nuts in FL, I believe!)

@Kekkaishi said in Trudeau says Canada will stand against authoritarianism:

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)

I agree with your post. However, I would like to direct your quote back at you and even all of us really who are tribal when it comes to politics for the most part. You two, imo, are both ends of a spectrum

LOL - I'm actually a conservative! I just don't believe in the use of hyperbole and made-up facts to support a position!

In this case, I think it's absurd to compare Trudeau - a Liberal that I disagree with on many fronts - to Putin.

The reason @raphjd and I "argue" so much on here is that he's spouting Q-Anon type, ultra-right-wing propaganda - filled with hyperbole, intentional misinformation, and some outright lies... most of which echo the stories you see in the Russian misinformation sites and sources.

@Raphjd (and apparently, at least to some extent) conflate a refusal to acquiesce to lies and exaggerations with supporting those he attacks. That's just not the case!

While not exactly the same, it's along the same lines as Voltaire's famous quote: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it". Except, in this case I disagree with Liberal politicians, such as Trudau, but I won't stand by and let others (from my own party) attack him with lies, exaggerations, and fabriactions... there is plenty to post about (negatively) Trudeau - and he was, indeed, rather heavy-handed in his COVID-19 response... but that doesn't make him comparable to Putin (or Hitler).

Mind you, when Trump was in power and a few of the people on here routinely bashed him with false claims of sex-tapes, hush money, and atheism - I defended him! I was no fan of Trump's but Liberals didn't need to stoop to lies to argue against him! (Trump insisted on being "on the News" in every daily cycle - and sometimes did crazy things to ensure that happened... so there was plenty of REAL fodder available - no need to make stuff up!)

@Arago44 said in Darkmax -First time here:

Hey. Glad you've decided to open the forums.

Welcome @darkmax - and thanks for the pic! If that's you, you're a handsome & sexy man! If that's just your ideal guy, then you have good tastes! LOL

Just my opinion, naturally!

@matrixtheblo said in 0kb Seeding Speed after Download Completed:

I am having the same issues. My Torrents has an upload speed while I download but immediately becomes 0kb once completed. I tried stopping them and restarting, recheck it and even using other clients, like uTorrent and my upload speed is always 0kb. Even though there are some upload speed (~30kb/s) while I download a file, my ratio is still 0.000. And now with my downloads completed it's not uploading anymore.

Any ideas as to why it only uploads while it is downloading?

When you download a torrent, your computer reaches out to other (seeder) computers, establishes a connection with some (but not usually all) of them, and you download different parts of your torrent from different places - each at different speeds - which are then added together to give you your "download speed" (and so long as there are seeders, and you're a leecher, this will nearly always be a number > 0).

Once you complete a download, you start being a seeder. You have no upload speeds until someone (maybe several people) connects and actually starts leeching the file - FROM YOU.

At any given time, I am seeding about 1000 torrents on multiple trackers (a few dozen on this tracker). At that same moment in time, typically only about a half-dozen are "active" - and even then, the speeds can be wildly different: one connection may be in the tens of KB/s, while other torrents the connection is in the tens of MB/s (I seed from a cloud-based system with measured speeds in excess of 10GB/s when not throttled)

My point is this: as a seeder, your upload speeds will appear only when a leecher is actually getting file contents from you... which will NOT be all the time, and may vary based on the capabilities of the leecher (in addition to your own limitations).

@NF16 said in Infatuated with a straight/bi guy. Mixed signals. What to do?:

@bi4smooth said in Infatuated with a straight/bi guy. Mixed signals. What to do?:

You're thinking with your logical mind and the original poster is clearly thinking with his heart.

That is precisely why we are giving the advice that we are. The signs are all there, the red flags clear and unmistakable. It is because the the original poster is thinking with his heart that he is not able to step back and see those signs. And because he is thinking with his heart, the potential for damage is significantly higher.

The person he is seeing has already clearly demonstrated that he is not worthy of trust. Hence, our advice to cut his losses, move on, and look for someone better.

As a disinterested, outside party this is all clear to you. But, I submit that you are not able to "put yourself in his shoes"... you make it sound like an "easy, logical decision"

My point is that, looking at the way the original post was written, @Willelmus is (well, let's hope was) at one of those chaotic points in his life - where his head is saying one thing (like: RUN AWAY!!!) but his heart is saying another (like: STAY!! Make it work! He's worth it!!!)

If @Willelmus could think in the detached, logical sense you propose, he wouldn't have written the post to begin with! IMHO, he's conflicted... and if he chooses "badly" he may regret it for a long time.

Just playing Devil's Advocate here:

• What if he forces the guy to admit he's queer and into him, he accepts all of this, and they live happily ever after? (likelihood? less than 1% IMHO, but possible!)
• What if he walks away and 2 years later he's invited to they guy's gay wedding - because the NEXT guy convinced him he really was queer - and he missed out? (likelihood? also less than 1% IMHO, but also possible!)
• <Insert 100 other possible outcomes>

When your brain and your heart want different things, these kinds of "what if's" go back and forth in your head... you imagine the best - and the worst - of each possible outcome... and the result is often "frozen" rumination...

I tried to use some of my own experiences to illustrate that neither "side" (heart or head) is going to always be right! And neither is going to always be wrong. But I also acknowledge that it's an emotionally painful place to be... and it is certainly not "cut and dried"!

@raphjd said in Trudeau says Canada will stand against authoritarianism:

@bi4smooth

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 Proof that black privilege is real:

@bi4smooth

You being the good liberal that you are, believe that only whites can be racist.

Actually, me being the scientist that I am believes that the whole construct of race has been proven to be invalid. We are - genetically, and scientifically speaking - one "race": the Human Race.

"In the biological and social sciences, the consensus is clear: race is a social construct, not a biological attribute."
- https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/science-genetics-reshaping-race-debate-21st-century/

Oh, but you were taught about the 3 (or 5) different races as a small child - this destroys your "world view", so it must be false... never-mind that the DNA of humans hadn't even begun to be studied when you were "taught" about races 150 years ago (joking - 40 years ago? 30? even 20!)...

ANY idea that one person's ancestry gives them innate power over others is genetically absurd, and proven to be so...

And, as I've pointed out in these forums before, the American "idea" of race as being principally tied to skin color is unheard of in most other parts of the World - where White Christians and White Jews very much believe they are of different races! Not only that, but White Jews and Darker-Skinned Jews - even Black Jews - very much believe that they are of the same race: the Jewish race!

And again - it's all in our collective heads... there is NO biological difference ... and basing decisions - pro-White, pro-Black, or otherwise based on outdated concepts of "race" is wrong.

While that is scientifically true, it is of little value to ignore the social constructs and ancestral histories that have provided "race-based" advantages and disadvantages to people of certain skin colors based on these outdated and dis-proven concepts of "differences"...

While there is no scientific basis for race differentiation, there certainly are social and societal bases... it will take generations for us - as a society - to tear down these now discredited social belief systems. And it will take a concerted effort - among all - to accelerate the path to a "one race" society... but that won't be my generation, nor even my grandchildren's... and so each generation must do its part to move us (societally) to a more honest and just acceptance of people - all people - as "racially" equals...

Sounds "pie in the sky" - but 400 years ago, it was a popular belief that Black people were "inherently inferior" to other races - and were incapable of being educated to the same degree as Whites! (That's historical fact, not my belief!) Take a look at any college campus today and you'll see proof that those beliefs were wrong - and while considerable progress has been made, there is much more to be done...

@raphjd said in Smollett: Hoax Gets 150 Days Jail:

@flozen

I was hoping he got the full sentence possible.

Hoax hate crimes do real harm to actual victims of hate crimes.

I think the sentence is fair - that is, on par with what a non-famous person would receive. IMHO, fame should not be a "free pass" to do illegal things, but it also shouldn't come with harsher penalties either!

Those fines are not inconsequential - especially since he is all-but blacklisted in the Entertainment Industry.

As for his continued insistence that he's not guilty? Well, the jails are FULL of people who swear they're innocent, contrary to what a "jury of their peers" determined....

@ixylem

I don't know that @raphjd is a racist - but he does seem to see racism everywhere he looks! You know, like when you buy a new ABC car, and suddenly you see ABC cars everywhere you look?

I suspect @raphjd believes that the Asian culture's preference for white rice is somehow racist....

@raphjd said in Trudeau says Canada will stand against authoritarianism:

@bi4smooth

But your beloved Biden, Fauci, and many others said that the vaccine would prevent us from getting and spreading covid. They lied. Even the Mayo Clinic said it would prevent you from getting and spreading covid, but only fairly recently changed their website to the true facts.

You are so black/white about this... if I can vaccinate you and make it so that, when you are exposed to COVID-19, your chances of being hospitalized are reduced by 95%, and your chances of dying are reduced by 99% - well, that's not stopping the virus.

As I've repeatedly pointed out - what you claim they said is not what they said! Your "interpretation" belies a complete lack of understanding of simple, "boy scout first aid" levels of understanding.

Let's use a non-COVID example: Say you were exposed to Measles this past week. You had your MMR shots as a child, so you were "protected"... that didn't mean that the measles virus was somehow, magically, blocked from entering your body - but it did mean that when the virus invaded your body (measles is VERY contagious!) your body reacted quickly... you most likely got a low-grade fever and never even felt particularly ill! But don't fool yourself - you WERE infected with the virus!

If Trudeau is going to be a mask nazi, then he needs to follow his own rules.

Of that, we can agree... hypocrisy - especially in the areas of Public Health - is bad... but it's not "invade another country" bad!

Trudeau's government supports BLM and Antifa, despite the rioting, looting, and murdering they have done.

The Canadian Gov't received applications from, and awarded grants to BLM (I don't know about Antifa - I suspect that may be hyperbolic, but let's assume for now that you're correct). Thousands of these grants went to community organizations - some of whom are Liberal, some of whom are Conservative. BLM (unlike Proud Boys or 3-Percenters) do not advocate overthrowing the Gov't, they advocate (albeit sometimes in ways that get out of hand) for change within the Gov't and society as they are!

Do I agree with everything BLM (or Antifa) stands for? hell no! But I don't agree with everything the Catholic Church stands for either, and I don't think they need to be jailed for it!

You act as-if Trudeau personally reached out to BLM to give them money - and that's just not the case. These are community grants, and BLM is a community-based (yes, Liberal) organization, and they qualified for the grant.

Do you purport to live by "the rule of law", or do you (like Trump & Putin) think that your views overshadow the law and take precedence?

The truckers didn't riot, loot, and murder but the liberal government did call them terrorists, insurrections, etc, etc, et.

why must everything be "tit for tat" and "zero-sum" for you? No, the truckers are not mirror images of BLM or Antifa - and they aren't Proud Boys or Islamic State-ists, either!

What they did was shutdown an international trade route - even in defiance of a legal court order to cease and desist. Just like BLM protests in Seattle, their protests went too far.

Protests at abortion clinics is illustrative:

• perfectly fine to stand outside and hold signs and even shout at patients & staff going into the clinic
• NOT OK to actually block the entrance to prevent people from doing what's perfectly legal.

The Proud Boys and Three Percenters have done none of the stuff that BLM and Antifa have done.

No - they attempted to overthrow the Gov't, broke into the US Capitol Building, threatened the Vice-President of the US, and the Congress with bodily harm, and insisted that their candidate be installed as President. (Does the term "attempted coup" ring a bell?) Thus, they made it onto the Terrorist Group list... For what it's worth, that makes them ineligible for the community block grants that BLM received!

@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:

• He IS the Forum Administrator - this is HIS playground we're all playing in! I don't think he is the site OWNER, but if not, only the site owner "outranks" him here.
• This is the Politics section of the Forum - the only area of the Forum where this kind of "heated" discourse is tolerated (if not encouraged). Hence, his tone in other areas of this site is significantly different - by design, and by his own rules.
• Unless he is retired and/or independently wealthy, @raphjd has his hands full (volunteer hands, I might add) taking care of this Forum... I'd be surprised if this was the only place he posted - but it'd be understandable

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)

You have a misunderstanding of how the system works. (It's OK - most people do! Indeed, MANY people think they're downloading all this porn from GT.ru (or the new gaytor.rent) itself!)

The reality is that you ONLY download the .torrent file from here... after that, all file transfers are between peers: (the peer WITH the data being the seeder, the peer NEEDING the data being the leecher)... hence, the technology is called P2P (as in: peer-2-peer).

Just as the .torrent file itself doesn't contain any porn, the tracker itself doesn't either - only computer instructions on how to GET IT!

So, if your speeds are slower, blame the seeders or something else in your system - but the site itself plays no role in setting, capping, or even measuring your speeds!

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!

@NF16 said in Hello Hello..:

Welcome, non-newbie.

Favorite topics... hmm.... Well, there's sex ... and then there's sex... and, oh yes, sex.

I'm with @NF16 - in spite of a majority of my posts being in the politics section, I come here for the sex!