@raphjd said in Now woke headteacher who banned punishments and shouting at children forces pupils to go VEGETARIAN 'to stop climate change':

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10515015/Fury-primary-school-bans-MEAT-lunchboxes-canteen-Parents-blast-ludicrous-rule.html

Not only is meat banned in the cafeteria, it's also banned in lunchboxes.

FYI; Headteacher is the same as Principal.

That is why some HeadTeachers need to be replaced.

Authoritarianism from the Left is no better or worse than authoritarianism from the Right...

This is clearly the Peter Principle at work - she may have been a competent teacher, but she's totally unfit to be HeadTeacher!

@raphjd said in Yet another news story liberal media ain't talkin about:

@bi4smooth

Why did Dems do exactly what the Carter/Baker Commission said would harm elections most?

Of course you would, you are a Pelosi Repub.

You support domestic terrorism when certain groups do it, but you are against not even insurrection (according to Garland).

I am not the Straw Man you're looking for...

Yes, back to that again... you should've learned last time that that tactic doesn't work with me...

@raphjd said in Biden to spend $30mil on crack pipe distribution:

@bi4smooth

Well, you are saying it's untrue, even though your leftist source says the program could allow it.

You butt-head... I'm saying your hyperbolic news feed is harping on a potential use of a block grant of funds, and passing it off as though it was the sole purpose of the funds!

It's like looking at the $700 billion (non-BlackOps) Pentagon budget, seeing that they're purchasing portable latrines, and then claiming the Pentagon is spending $700 billion dollars on new latrines!

Could some of that $30 million be used to buy drug paraphernalia (like better crack pipes)? Yes!
Is that the intent of the block grant? No
Is that a focus of the block grant? No
They are likely to also purchase condoms and needles (to prevent the spread of HIV among drug users - esp IV drug users)... where's your outcry that they're spending $30 million on condoms?

OH! That's right - it's not as "click bait"-ish!

You're such a tool of the anti-American Right...

@djsoapbubble said in hey what up:

@bi4smooth I understand all that. BUT, there was a situation sometime last year where the search engine was acting wonky. Hence the reason why my uploads were reported as duplicates were because the search engine was wonky. So no, I don't trust technology that much. It's good to have it and all as we have the world right at our fingertips. However, expecting technology to be dependable 100% of the time is a far stretch as it all comes within the territory. You know, kind of like artificial intelligence when you ask Alexa or Google to play sexual music and all they do is put out Lynyrd Skynyrd instead.

No system where you allow thousands of users to input data is going to be perfect. And I may be wrong, but other than notifications that your uploads were duplicates, I don't suspect there was any PENALTY for uploading something found elsewhere.

I do know for a fact that Staff don't go looking for duplicates... they depend on the users to report them. I know this because I was told as much by a staffer some years ago when one of my torrents was marked as a duplicate, even though I thought it was "different enough" (an argument I lost LOL)

Finally - Why can't you make love to Free Bird? or What's Your Name?

I'm not sure who's right - you or Alexa on that one! ROFL!

@raphjd said in Yet another news story liberal media ain't talkin about:

@bi4smooth

You are such a liar.

Anything and everything bad said about Trump you automatically believe, because you, like every other liberal, have extreme TDS.

I believed there was interference because it makes sense and we have the evidence. You believed that there was collusion because your leftist "news" media said so.

You liberals can't pretend this away as you did with Hunter's laptop.

You're missing the point - on at least 2 marks:

• There is/was a difference between Russian INTERFERENCE in 2016 (proven - beyond a doubt) and Russian COLLUSION with the Trump Campaign (not proven, and with the lack of charges coming after the Trump term ended, the Dem's can't hide behind the "he's being protected by the Justice Dept" claim any longer).
• The issue at hand then was that, while there were complaints of Russian interference - with or without Trump Campaign assistance - in 2016, there was no attempt to claim the vote was stolen or invalid... only that people were duped, lied to, and in some few cases, coerced into voting for Trump (or at least NOT voting for Hillary)...
  There were no claims then that the votes were fraudulent, only that the people who cast those votes didn't know better.
  For what it's worth, I didn't buy it then, and I don't buy it now - the truthfulness isn't what's at issue though... that election is long gone, and Trump's term has come and gone. What DOES matter is that, in spite of the "cheating" claims, no one attempted to change the vote totals or the outcome of the election... they just wanted to "expose the cheating" (and in the Dem's view, de-legitimize Trump's presidency).
  Do you think Thomas Dewey didn't claim "something was up" when Harry Truman beat him in 1948? Of course he did! He claimed all kinds of shenanigans were used to beat him! Many (most) of which were illegal - like LITERALLY buying votes in some cities! BUT Dewey didn't claim Truman didn't get the votes - only that they were ill-gotten.
• The issue today is that, and I strongly suspect that is with the help - knowingly or otherwise - of the Russians and other US adversaries, the Trumpite / Q-Anon factions aren't just claiming Joe Biden cheated - they're claiming that thousands of election workers around the country - even Republican ones - cheated.
  And this calls into question the very legitimacy of Democracy... if you ask me, it's beyond un-patriotic... and those who participated in the Jan 6 insurrection (with the intent of stopping the transfer of power) are guilty of treason.
  (Be glad I'm not the Federal Judge hearing their cases! They'd be given the option: life in prison (Leavenworth, not some cozy Club Fed) or be stripped of US Citizenship and expelled to the country of their choice - with a lifetime ban on ever stepping foot in the US or its territories again.)

@raphjd said in Biden to spend $30mil on crack pipe distribution:

@bi4smooth

Blah, blah, blah

Even your leftist "proof" said it could be. That is akin to admitting it's true.

You're right - you could shoot 35 schoolchildren with that new gun of yours, so let's just arrest you for the murders NOW to avoid all the bloodshed.

You're such a moron about these things...

@lololulu19 said in Proof that black privilege is real:

@raphjd I want to hear a senator ask this question of the Supreme Court nominee...

Is it legal to require a candidate for a job to be of a specific gender and a specific race?

If not, should we disqualify anybody who has been selected as a candidate based upon their gender and race?

Careful there - you would lose Clarence Thomas (conservative SC Justice) just as fast as anyone else you can think of!

When you can think of a way to make things perfect - even just your version of perfect, let us know...

Age discrimination is supposed to be just as illegal as racial and gender discrimination - should we send Amy Coney Barrett (conservative SC justice chosen because Trump promised to put a woman on the court) & Neil Gorsuch (nominated by Trump because of his young age - wanting his conservative influence to last longer) packing too, and let the current (Democrat) President choose new ones - based on gender-racial-and-age neutral grounds?

If you can't say "I'll only appoint a black woman", can you also not say "I'll only appoint a Pro-Life justice"? Or a "Pro-Choice" one?

Your points sound reasonable (sometimes... rarely for @lololulu19) on the surface - but if you look beneath - just a smidge - they are wholly unworkable...

@raphjd said in Biden to spend $30mil on crack pipe distribution:

@bi4smooth

Your leftist "proof" even said it could be.

Are you drunk today? High? On anti-psychotic drugs?

Saying that "Biden is going to spend $30 million on crack pipes" is not the same as "some of a $30 million grant might be spent on crack pipes for drug addicts"

You really do believe your hyperbolic "much ado about nothing" rant is justified because they "could potentially" purchase crack pipes? What about all that Gov't money spent on free condoms?

What about all that Gov't money spend on home COVID-19 test kits? (Want to know how stupid that is? My household - with 6 people living here - got 4 test kits. My son's household - with 1 person living there - got 4 test kits.)

@raphjd said in Yet another news story liberal media ain't talkin about:

@bi4smooth

You can't admit that you believed the lies because you have extreme TDS.

You are so pathetic.

I'm sorry - I don't believe, and never have, that Hillary actually won the 2016 election!

I remained neutral as to the idea that Trump illegally colluded with the Russians. I was concerned that the Justice Dept. considered the President "untouchable" - and still think that is a DANGEROUS precedent!

I said at the time that, given what the Justice Dept and the Special Prosecutor said (which was that they couldn't charge Trump with a crime at that time), that the proof would be in the pudding once Trump was out of office. If he really DID break the law, but they couldn't touch him because he was President, then they'd charge him once that "blocker" was removed.

That never happened. Which leads me to the conclusion that they really did find "nothing or not enough" evidence of collusion with the Russians (or any other foreign element) to warrant a charge.

That doesn't mean the Russians (and the Chinese and Iranians - to name the biggest players) didn't work (like never before) to influence the election!

Mind you, influencing voters is exactly what every campaign does... what's new here is the amount of effort put into this influencing that was made by foreign entities! What with the Internet blurring lines in so many other parts of our lives, why not politics?

Here are some hard facts about American Politics:

• If you can lie convincingly enough to get voters to vote for you, you win
• If voters are dumb enough to believe the lies, their votes still count, and you win
• If voters are confused enough and choose to either not vote, or vote a 3rd party, and you get more votes because of it... you win

There are no intelligence tests for American Voters...

• Stupid people's votes count exactly as much as Nobel Laureates' votes.
• Racist people's votes count exactly as much as non-racist one's
• When stupid people are confused by the ballot itself and mark their votes for the wrong people - it doesn't matter (ask Al Gore) - what you voted is what you voted, and it counts - the same as everyone else's

@raphjd said in Proof that black privilege is real:

@msoft

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:

• Brits hate the French - and it's considered a "racial" thing, not just a citizenship/country of origin thing
• Greeks and Turks "hate each other" over "racial" differences
• Chinese and Japanese "hate each other" - over racial differences
• And, of course, many tribes in Africa "hate each other" - over racial differences

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...

@djsoapbubble said in hey what up:

LOL! Yeah, I missed that one as I was oblivious. BUT, now I cross my t's and dot my i's to make sure there hasn't been a file already uploaded as I've run into that on several occasions.

Just do a search... or, you can let the rest of the GayTorrent.RU users do the work for you!

The site "pays" (in Seed Bonus Points) for people to report duplicates.. if your torrent is still alive in 2-weeks, submit it for your bonus!

Just an idea...

@dadesnine said in Biden to spend $30mil on crack pipe distribution:

@raphjd
The do nothing dems, the racist republicans and the rest are all still hunting for q drops. What a time to be living.

The Democrats are (thankfully) powerless - with their slim majorities, then have to water down virtually every possible proposal to win over every possible Democrat - because the Republicans are truly united in opposition.

I always find it hilarious when @raphjd and other Trumpites talk about how well organized and "loyal" Democrats are to their leaders! Hogwash! Leading democrats is like herding cats - and some of them are rabid!

I don't mind this fact - it means that "when its their turn" (and it will always be either their turn now, or again at some time in the near future - that's the nature of American politics! The same can be said of Republicans - it may not be our time NOW, but our time is coming again! Count on it! Just as surely as we regain power, we'll lose it again, too!)

So @raphjd has gone from "Biden is going to spend $30million on crack pipes" to "Some of that money could be spent on crack pipes"... as-if those were synonymous...

Typical...

@raphjd said in Yet another news story liberal media ain't talkin about:

Youtube Video

Besides the named stuff hacked by Hillary and co., the "particular healthcare provider" was Trump's healthcare provider.

Of course, our resident Pelosi Repub will screech some crap about how evil Trump is and how the DNC are innocent victims.

ROFL - this is hilarious! Talk about confusing terms!

According to this talking-head's puppeteers, the act of doing an intense internet search (mining) is equivalent to hacking. Yeah, and intense masturbation causes pregnancy because they're both kinds of sex! Clueless has a new reference for Websters!

According to this dweeb, when the Democrats thought Trump was in collusion with the Russians (something I also suspected, but has never been proven - but that's another story), they actually searched the Internet for evidence! Even the White House (many of whose records are public)! In fact, they even authorized the access of data that was hidden & proprietary. (Unlike the dottering old fool on YouTube, I realized that meant paying for access to archives and independent research - not hacking!). There are tons of research companies that sell access to their data - think LexisNexis for one.

Oh, and the insider - with a Top Secret Security Clearance - apparently violated that trust to support this so-called hack. (This "insider" has a contract to provide DNS services to the White House... something I do for some of my clients who don't want their Internet use "snooped" (not the same as hacking) by their ISPs)...
No, what happened is that the same firm that provided the DNS service to the white house was hired to so some of the searching.... uh, it's what they do! Computer consultants, don't ya know! And given that they have TS clearances, I'm pretty sure they know how to limit access to systems! The likelihood that the researchers got special access to the White House records is about as likely as the Army infiltrating the Navy's computer systems and re-naming one of their aircraft carriers the USS Minnow (Gilligan's Island reference there).... ya, not!

Also, this eggheaded moron conflates "data mining" with "hacking and planting data and stories"... I guess his version of a Gem Mine is like those roadside attractions in the mountains where you can pay for a bucket of dirt, sift it in their artificial "river" and "find" the "gems" there in the dirt! Every bucket is guaranteed to have gems (they're planted there, DUH!)
I'm sorry, Mr "I'm outraged because I don't actually understand a word of what I'm reading", but "Data Mining" is searching for data from multiple sources - and, very much like REAL Gem Mining, there is no guarantee of success!
So, in essence, this guy (who makes Patrick on SpongeBob SquarePants look like a genius) is all "up in arms" that a Democrat who lost a close election in opposition to their own polling data trying to prove there was Russian Interference! (Can I get a "Pot calling the Kettle black reference here?)

Which brings me to the whole point of even writing a response:

The latest Trumpite defense for all this election fraud hoax is that "Hillary did it first"... which is absurd - absurd enough they have to go to the lengths above to try to support it... but there are flaws:

1. Now they want to hold up Hillary Clinton - far from a paragon of virtue and morals - as the ideal Democrat
   Why is that farcical? Because Hillary Clinton was the most despised presidential candidate in history! Not just by Republicans, but by wade margins in the Dem party too! (The 2016 election cycle set, and then broke, records for most disliked candidates... 1 and 2 in the record books!)
2. There is a difference between asserting that your opponent colluded with others (Russians, or whomever) to confuse and influence the American Voter, and thereby swaying an election...
   it is wholly another thing to claim that the American Voting System is itself corrupt and was hacked, thereby swaying an election.
   As has been discussed in here ad-nauseum already: you cannot "hack" the American Voting System - because there isn't one system to hack! There are thousands!

I'm not one to agree with the likes of Joe Scarborough, but even he thinks this is so poorly thought out as to be - in his words - "Willfully Stupid" (source)

@teefup said in hey what up:

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ROFL - when you go to the main Torrent page (www.gaytorrent.ru) you should see it on a huge green banner! (You probably ignore it, thinking it's an ADVERTISEMENT).

Click on that, and you'll go here:
https://community.gaytorrent.ru/topic/7663/first-time-uploader-program-ftup

@raphjd said in Biden to spend $30mil on crack pipe distribution:

@hubrys

AH, because I want there to be funding for rehab, you call me ignorant and nonsensical.

It's funny that you are angrier at me than you are at HHS for removing the crackpipes from the smoking kits.

Liberals, including Pelosi Repubs, have no problem with funding gender studies in Pakistan while having no money for rehab for our own people.

So now we have the real issue
We (the US Gov't) is apparently paying for some kind of gender study in Pakistan. Anything and everything else we fund that @raphjd finds the least bit objectionable or excessive will now be compared to "gender study in Pakistan"

Even Forbes (no fan of Dems or Joe Biden) says this claim is nonsense! But curiously, they DO trace it's origin to a Russian troll farm and an obscure gay porno site (unnamed in the article)... Read for yourself

@hubrys said in Biden to spend $30mil on crack pipe distribution:

I think the saddest part of all of this is all of the crack users that could have been helped by this program that will not receive that help. Glass pipes (expensive) help prevent lip burns which contribute to the spread of HIV and hepatitis amongst crack users. Plastic or metal pipes can cause irreparable damage to crack users' lungs.

One can take the position that we shouldn't be helping a drug user take drugs, but that's ignorant and not the position taken by the actual experts in harm reduction. Even the commission created by President Trump came back with a recommendation to distribute safe drug syringes to prevent disease spread.

Keeping a drug user from contracting HIV while they're using drugs isn't the government enabling their vice. What it means is one less person living with a lifetime of HIV after they get clean.

@hubrys you miss the point.

To our conservative Trumpite bretheren here, drug users are irredeemable leeches on society. Our tax dollars should not be spent on giving them anything - not food, not shelter, and certainly not a safer way to use!

The real conundrum for them are the babies of crackheads! You see, there is no expense too great to save the life of the unborn, but as soon as that meth or heroin addicted little thing is born, why they're worthless scum that should be allowed (encouraged, even) to die to save us taxpayers from having to support them!

Hyperbolic? That WAS the intention - but sadly, it really more of a slight exaggeration than true hyperbole.... truly sadly....

@teefup said in why can't i send messages?:

@bi4smooth can you check my account too? was trying to PM the people who liked the first set of these vids to let em know I had uploaded a second set.

I'm not a moderator or staff member... just an old-timer (been on this site since 2008) whose seen a LOT of changes over the years!

@klacv said in all gaytorrent.ru trackers not working:

Hi everyone,

Could this tracker issue result to some torrent downloading just fine for several minutes then gradually slowing down to just a few Kb/s ?

It seems to only happens to some 10+Go files but this is kinda annoying

No - the tracker is NOT involved with your actual downloads.

Think of the tracker as a kind-of dating service... they make the introductions, but they really don't affect the date at all!

All of our users connect to the tracker with our torrent clients (the website is there solely for creating the connections in the torrent clients!). The torrent clients for items you are seeding tell the tracker that you still have that torrent's contents, and are still making it available.

The torrent clients for torrents you are leeching are asking he tracker for connection information with seeders (if any).

After that, the torrent client shares (uploads and downloads) data with the seeders/leechers directly.

So, the tracker can go away completely - and your current uploads/downloads will continue... you just won't be able to add any more... until the tracker comes back.

@serenity said in Marjorie "the Clown" Greene confuses Pelosi and Seinfeld:

@raphjd But she does make it very easy to hate her, even if you don't like Pelosi either.

She's a clown! (I didn't use that term lightly)!

You don't hate a clown for throwing a pie in someone's face, or bonking them over the head with a giant foam hammer! It's all part of the act!

She says some of these outrageous things because she learned from the Master - say stupid - unbelievably stupid - things and the press will RUN with it! No one will believe you MEANT to say the incredibly stupid thing, but you'll get TONS of press coverage! WIN!

@raphjd said in Marjorie "the Clown" Greene confuses Pelosi and Seinfeld:

@bi4smooth

Admit it, you hate her because she's not a Pelosi worshiping Repub.

Is there such a thing as Pelosi worshiping (hell, even a Pelosi SUPPORTING) Republican?

No, only the ones you claim are because they don't support Trump's lies - and I don't hate her!

Don't confuse lampooning a fool for hating the fool!

You're always so hyperbolic...