@raphjd said in NYC Dem councilwoman is racist against latinos:

https://notthebee.com/article/a-new-york-city-councilwoman-voted-against-allowing-noncitizens-to-vote-because-she-was-worried-that-latino-voters-might-use-the-law-to-vote-republican

I guess liberal media will call this "white supremacy" because everything is white supremacy no matter the races involved.

Oddly, a liberal black woman doesn't want brown people to vote, in the guise of equality.

Of course, there's the whole non-citizens being able to vote in NYC elections.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that only those in the country legally can vote in NYC elections, unlike in San Francisco which allows illegals to vote as well.

So.... let this be your correction: NYC just voted to let ANYONE vote in City elections - regardless of citizenship.

This NYC councilwoman - a black woman - voted to keep the status-quo (wherein you have to be a citizen, and registered to vote) - and now she's getting it from both sides!

• Liberals are hating on her for not allowing illegals to vote
• Conservatives are hating on her for the same thing (because she defied expectations, and because of some of her stated reasons WHY)

Black Woman vilified ... does there NEED to be a reason in the US in today's political climate?
I mean, really, doesn't it really come down to: she didn't vote liberal enough for the liberals and she wasn't conservative enough for the conservatives... and there is no middle anymore, so she's just an awful person for not meeting the expectations of others...

It's ridiculous that NYC wants to let non-citizens vote, but it's their city! They can choose to allow cats to vote too! (But not dogs! Dogs are too dumb! LOL)

Sigh...

Once again you misinterpret the First Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Nowhere does that place limits on what employers can place on employees (an employer in Chicago once fired an employee for wearing a Green Bay Packers sweatshirt to work! - that's American Football for those not in the US). Nor individuals inhibiting the speech of other individuals - so long as none of them are "the Governemnt"

In fact, employers ROUTINELY limit the free speech of their employees (non-disclosure agreements, anyone?)

The salient point about 1st Amendment protections is that they protect citizens (including corporations) from GOVERNMENT interference!

• You have no freedom from an employer restricting your speech (thou shalt not curse in front of customers). Neither you, nor your employer can be arrested when you're fired for calling a "Karen" a "screaming bitch"...
• You have no freedom from a business owner restricting your speech (you can't wear that t-shirt in my store!). Neither you nor the store owner can be arrested when he throws you out for wearing a Trump (or Biden) t-shirt in his store!

Now, there HAVE been exceptions carved out: you can be arrested for yelling "FIRE" in a crowded room, provided that there is no actual fire...

If you're actually interested in what the US 1st Amendment does (and does not) do, check out this set of lectures: there are 12 of them, each close to an hour in length.
https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/the-first-amendment-and-you-what-everyone-should-know

Of course, if you just want to scream hyperbole about Facebook, don't bother...

(For what it's worth: Facebook's court filings have nothing to do with First Amendment speech - the suit is about libel, not censorship. The US Government is not on trial, and the rules about libel have nothing to do with the exercise of Free Speech.)

@boltvolts said in illegal file:

@bi4smooth As stated before I agree by and large with your approach. You fail to acknowledge my point. Majority is not an issue for this site, rather for morality itself. The site owners can only maintain and serve the public it seeks to serve by arriving at a level of balance that serves the majority of its users. Nothing to do with legalities. I maintain the majority of users here would not support underage posts. The age of consent in Italy is 14, but only if the other party is within two years of their age. These legalities vary by venue, therefore the legality issue is not what is at issue in this instance.

This is part of the issue with the Internet... your 14 y/o Italian porn (with 2 x 14 y/o stars) might be legal there (?? I don't know, but you seem to imply that it is above ??)...
But that is NOT legal in the US, where the age to appear in porn is 18+ (across the country - not state-by-state).

I do not envy the staff who have to decide what is "legal age" and what isn't - ESPECIALLY with the onslaught of non-professional postings: OnlyFans, Twitter, and other large providers of short clips have no record-keeping requirements like professional studios do...

I know of at-least-one 12 y/o girl who was "publishing" sex videos with her 13 y/o boyfriend on a site where both used ludicrously fake IDs to get an account. They were "discovered" by the girl's older brother, who was apparently a collector of porn videos - at 15!

And pardon my hubris, but anyone who says that they can spot an underage performer is demonstrably a fool, and a moron to boot: Look at the earliest videos of Austin Young! He could have passed for a 13 y/o for christ's sake! But he had ID that proved he was 18... and look, sometime, at Asian Twink porn! Some of those guys look downright pre-pubescent, but have proven their identities to be 18+!

So what do you do with content that's posted from Twitter? There is no age requirement (at least not 18+), or record-keeping requirement there!

This is largely the same issue that all-but-took-down the *Tube sites (PornTube, XTube, PornHub, etc.) - some of their submissions were coming DIRECTLY from underage performers (no need for pedophiles to get involved, the kids were posting their own selves - their own content, no adults needed!)

It's a "can of worms" - and one I'm glad I don't have to dig into: as the father of 9 kids, I have nightmares of seeing one of my kids in a porn download! (Not that I would object if one of my adult kids wanted to go into porn - but I would NOT want to watch it!)

@corbyn4life said in illegal file:

there is huge difference of copyright and underage
maybe word illegal is no used correctly in my post

I agree that, to me personally, there is certainly a big difference.

But, to the site, there is none: both are not allowed, and are removed upon discovery.

There is one difference, however:

• Posting something that is DMCA removed will not result in adverse actions taken against uploaders here
• Posting something that is in the not allowed link above very well may get you booted off this system/site.

@boltvolts said in illegal file:

@bi4smooth I agree with most of what you point out.

The exception is that not only may it be offensive to the owners of the site, but to the majority of its users. We live in a majority rule society (supposedly). While all have their attractions and individual preferences which should be respected, it is precisely there that is the point...

Rights of those to view underage, for example, may infringe upon those who are under the legal age of consent. At what point is a child able to fairly discern the potnetial for harm or exploitation. Chldren can't order merchandise on the internet for the same reason.

Well, the point about it being offensive to the owners of the site is that they make the rules here! As I note above: virtually EVERY file shared on this site is already a violation of some law!

As for "majority rule" - that is a common misconception:

• This is the Internet, not the US (or any Western Democracy)
• We (queer folk) are already a minority... if "majority ruled" this content would be illegal! Oh wait! It IS in several parts of the world!
• The owner(s) of this site are under no requirement to do what "the majority" wants - otherwise, there would be no rationator, and DMCA takedown requests would be ignored!

Welcome to the forums. This is one of what the admins call 3 different "parts" to this site:

• Torrents
• Forum
• Helpdesk

There are lots of rules, but in my experience, when you break them innocently, the staff isn't too harsh.

The forums are mostly concerned with porn requests, but there is also significant activity in the Politics section, but wear your asbestos underwear in there - it can get heated.

@alishesh said in Poor seeding consistently:

My torrents never seed after half an hour of completion, what seems to be the issue here?

That timing would lead me to believe your client program isn't re-registering with the tracker as a seeder...

In my case, I use qBitTorrent, and to get downloaded content to seed properly, I have to set my client to re-check torrents after the download completes. Only that way, do my torrents start to seed properly after the download completes. (ALSO: When I upload content, I have to do that TWICE to get the site to accept that my torrent is seeding properly)!

If you use a different client, check to see if "resetting" the torrent's connection to the tracker solves your problem...

When you go to the upload page, there is a link to the Upload Rules, including this page that identifies BANNED content (banned studios, etc).
https://www.gaytorrent.ru/notallowed.php

Additionally, anyone can report a torrent for potential age issues.

I'm pretty sure that the MODS take this stuff seriously - and there are warnings about penalties for uploading banned content - but, "I'm not going to use this site if there is illegal content"??? Let me ask you this: since nearly ALL of the content here is copyright by someone, nearly ALL of it is posted here illegally (at least in most jurisdictions).

IMHO (and I'm speaking for myself), the ban on age-restricted content is because it is OFFENSIVE to the owners/staff, not just because it is illegal.

General chaos in the cable MSM these days.

• Chris Cuomo dumped by CNN for having virtually NO journalistic ethics when it comes to family
• As noted, another CNN reporter arrested for child abuse
• Stephen Hayes & Jonah Goldberg publicly rebuke their employer, FOX News as part of a messy resignation
• Chris Wallace - 18 year anchor of FOX News, resigns to join CNN+ (a new CNN streaming service)

Honestly, I'd love to see Chris Wallace take over Cuomo's spot!

Mind you, as someone without Cable TV, I don't watch CNN or FOX News "live" - I see what's on their websites, and some YouTube recordings - but IMHO, Wallace was almost always Fair and Balanced - for real - at Fox!

@raphjd said in Once again, Biden can't stop lying:

@eobox91103

LOL.

When Trump was in office, you people demanded that we could not mention Obama, but now that Biden is in office, you drag Trump into every conversation to deflect.

I predicted this would be the case.

It's not magic. It's that you people are that predictable.

Maybe that pre-dates my interaction in THIS forum, but in other areas where I have communication with Trumpites and Democrats, there was never any "don't bring up Obama" sentiment - ESP from the Dems! - that I saw or remember.

But Trump himself? That's another story! He Who Must Be Named insisted that he be the headline - literally every day - while he was President!

Let's be fair: he tries to be in the headlines as much as he can even now!!

@raphjd said in The truth about liberal media:

Well now you've found it! The ONE nutty-professor in America!

Wait! That's only the ONE named Ho...
No, that's the ONE in Colorado named Ho!

That's it!

Seriously: do you have ANY IDEA how many nutty professors there are in the US?

IMHO, the only thing anti-anyone racism has - ANYWHERE, including the US*** is...

Racism itself!

Racism in the Middl-East exists - and there is no "White Supremacy" there...

Racism is RAMPANT in Asia (well, it IS a big-ass continent!): anti-Japanese, anti-Korean, anti-Chinese - you name it, and no White races in there (an any significant numbers)...

So, I'm with you in CALLING BULLSHIT on the author, but this is kind of a "look! A dog shit in the grass over there" story, if you ask me!

@raphjd said in The truth about liberal media:

You get no argument from me that unwarranted attacks on Asian Americans are being under-reported... by ALL media in the US, liberal and conservative... but, uh, who are these people attacking Asians - accusing them of purposefully spreading (or creating) COVID-19?

In a word: Trumpites - admittedly not mainstream Trumpite Politicians, but idiots who hear "kung flu" from "He who Must Be Named" and think that all Asians are culpable for COVID-19...

Your topic heading is about LIBERAL media - and in this instance, conservative media is just as guilty

@iaimtoplease said in Why do torrents that have already been taken down still affect my ratio?:

@bi4smooth Their topic and message are two different things. A torrent taken down, I read that as removed, would error in your client as "unregistered" in which case you should absolutely stop seeding if you want credit for any data that you're uploading.

The first part of my response though answered their question as to why removed/duplicate torrents affect ratio, that data sent/received has already been transferred and reported to their account. The removal of a torrent doesn't remove the fact that data has been downloaded and uploaded.

Agreed that once data is transmitted and reported to the tracker, it's "part of the record" - my point was more to the idea that, just because its become unregistered on the tracker, doesn't mean the torrent is dead! The tracker is NOT INVOLVED in the actual transmission of data from the seeder to the leecher.

To my point: If I start leeching a torrent, and half-way through...

• the torrent is removed for being a duplicate, but I continue leeching (and the seeder continues seeding), I will get my torrent (all of it), and my ratio will be affected according to ALL of the data transferred.
• the torrent is removed for a DMCA complaint, but I continue leeching (and the seeder continues seeding), I will get my torrent (all of it), but my ratio will only be affected by the data transferred and reported BEFORE the torrent was deleted in the tracker.

This whole thing is a "how the sausage is made" kind of discussion: keep seeding, play fair, keep your ratios up, and none of this matters!

Lie:

1. to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive
2. something that intentionally misleads or deceives

So, a guy who truly believes that his wife - the mother of his children, and the love of his life - was killed by a drunk driver, and because the police didn't charge them as-such (indeed, never even tested the other driver), they're lying...

And in the same breath, you'll tout all the greatness (and infallibility) of He Who Must Be Named, His Orange-ship, Donald Trump... HIS record of telling the truth is better?

Dude! They're both old men - quickly approaching 80 - who get things WRONG. Don't we all? But (and even my 10-year-old kids get this): Being WRONG isn't the same thing as LYING!

When you FIRST claim that your inauguration was "the largest crowd in history" it's just being wrong. When you're shown photographic evidence, backed up by testimony of your own followers - that you were wrong, but you continue to make that claim, you cross over from just being wrong to lying.

But there's more to that analogy:

• Trump has much to gain by claiming to have had the largest crowd in history. There is an intent to deceive there!
• Just exactly what is the benefit to Biden when he claims he was in Israel just before the 6-days-war, when it was really the Yom-Kippur-war? What's the deception?

Biden has a well-established history of gaffes - and he still struggles with stuttering! Oh the inhumanity! GOD save us!

Actually - God (only one cap) is going to have to save us from the inflation these Gov't give-aways are going to cause for years to come! To call a Spade a Spade, the policies that incited this inflation started under Trump, but Biden has exacerbated them!

To be clear tho: Gov't spending (paying for actual things, or actual labor) isn't necessarily inflationary... Gov't giving away money - pumping cash into the economy with no purchase, no "benefit", just giving it away - is completely inflationary!

Under Trump, the "stimulus" was reasonable - inflationary, but inflation was historically low, and the economy had just taken a gut-punch. The 2nd Trump "stimulus" was purely political, and totally an inflationary event - causing people to not only spend unwisely, but also to expect to routinely collect money from the Gov't for free!.

Then, along came Biden - who wanted to show that HE TOO could give away trillions of dollars to people, in exchange for nothing - just free cash! Which piled on the inflationary pressures, and super-heated the economic demands - beyond the ability of the damaged infrastructure to keep up with - which accelerated the inflation even more.

In case you missed it: Jobless claims have dropped to their lowest levels in 52 years! (There are multiple underlying reasons for this - some good, some bad. But facts are facts).

For the record:

@bi4smooth (me) happily admits to being @raphjd's nemesis!

Also, I admit to being wrong from time to time. Unlike @raphjd, and his hero, The Great Orange One (He's from Florida now! How ironic, and appropriate! - and notice I capitalized "He"), I don't believe that admitting my mistakes and errors diminishes me in any way. In fact, I believe that "He who must be named" makes a mockery of himself by refusing to admit his own errors.

BUT - I also don't fall for the trap that, just because I get an ancillary fact wrong, that doesn't make the rest of the argument any more or less valid! (in the case of Rittenhouse, you were arguing that he didn't KILL people because the jury said it was justified. I argued that he most certainly DID KILL people, but that the jury found that it was not MURDER. Since that time, and I'm guessing until about 2033, you've referred back to that thread arguing that the whole thing was about the race of the victims... Yeah - right - whatever you have to tell yourself in the mirror, dude!

@raphjd said in Liberals are child and animal rapists:

@bi4smooth

AH, it has to be a politician. Girl, you do love to set up rules for me. There are plenty of professors, who brainwash young minds, as well as many others who are promoting this shit on the internet. So go fuck yourself.

Oh!
I see, now! Some nut-job tried to establish a NAMBLA chapter in Scotland and you naturally jump to the conclusion that liberals, in general, have taken up the cause!

Look, there are nut-job Dems - AOC isn't playing with a full deck (and the cards aren't even real!)... but MTG isn't exactly displaying much in the way of intelligence or sanity, either! And both of these women are members of the uS Congress!

But this is, admittedly, a common tactic for you.

You know, that bum in downtown Tampa last week SWORE that Jesus was coming - NEXT WEEK! And he had a Trump sticker on his back and was wearing a MAGA hat... so I guess the Trumpites are planning for "end of times", now, right?

LIAR. You were 100% insistent that Kyle 3 killed 3 black men in Illinois, which is a total lie. Of course, you don't want me to focus on your lies in that discussion, because it proves how fucking utterly clueless you are on global news. Again, you are a liar.

Moron. I never said I didn't get the race of the victims wrong. I also misspelled victim (a typo, I swear!) and forgot to close a parenthesis - TWICE! That wasn't the salient point of the discussion (and we also weren't discussing typing skills or grammar (and the appropriate use of parens!)...

But you go boy! I'm sure I've made other mistakes too! Guess that means you can't trust anything I say!

Of course, you don't care. You and your people want gay porn in elementary schools, then lie about it being there, as we see in the other thread.

Again, you never allow facts to get in the way of an opportunity to be outraged! Your life must be truly exhausting!

What I DON'T want are self-appointed "morals police" determining what should and shouldn't be in a school library! There are professionals! People trained in Library Science (yes, that's real!) - that we actually pay a salary to - whose actual job is to make those determinations.

That aside, even when I was in school (more than a MONTH of Sunday's ago!), the school library wasn't exactly a "bustling place" with kids eagerly doing research, or choosing recreational reading! (Though, my Elementary school library is where I found my first Space Cat books!)

What with Smart Phones, and the Internet, I'm pretty sure the local school librarians are even LESS popular!

Ok, let's play your stupid game for a bit. Let's assume that I and the mom in the video were wrong about a book that talks about a black kid's adventures in gay sex, in a graphic way, then please explain why the school board threatened to have her arrested for "obscene language"?

Maybe because she was "morally outraged and hysterical"? I don't know - that's conjecture - and far be it from me to claim that School Boards in the US are all populated with sane & rational people! Two examples - both from Texas - come to mind from the past 4 or 5 years or so:

• A Texas School Board narrowly defeated a measure that would have removed ALL MENTIONS of the word Slavery or any mention of slavery from all curricula. (Kinda the opposite of the old Marx bit: "say the magic word and win a prize!" - except it's "don't say the word, and it never happened!")
• Another Texas School Board approved, then rescinded, plans to teach students that Texas was a sovereign nation, occupied by the US illegally.

Being in Texas, these were mightily righteous Republican School Boards... Conservatives even! Dare I say: Trump followers?!?! (Conjecture, I admit, there - but HIGHLY likely!)

I don't care if you call me names. I do care when you whiney ass liberals call me names, then claim to be the victim. I was pointing out how extremely fucking hypocritical you whiney bitches are.

Ahhh... so you have NEVER started a whole new thread - not even THIS THREAD primarily to whine about someone calling you names?

OK! Say hi to Jesus for me next week! (hands circling ears!)

@iaimtoplease said in Why do torrents that have already been taken down still affect my ratio?:

@iaimtoplease said in Why do torrents that have already been taken down still affect my ratio?:

Always check in on your torrents so you can stop any that have been taken down that you're still seeding. You won't be credited for anything you upload after it has been removed.

...as it's not being reported to the tracker any longer.

The site admins try to strike a balance:

• We (users) don't want the site stuffed with copies of the same old stuff
• We (users) don't want to LOSE our downloads just because the uploader posted a duplicate!

So: when a torrent is flagged as a duplicate, it is removed from the website (I think hidden is a better term in this case), it is STILL a valid torrent (I know because it shows, at least for a time, as a duplicate torrent in my list or uploaded torrents!)

Also, when (as the uploader) I am notified that my upload was a duplicate, I am instructed to continue seeding until the last leecher completes.

Since it's still a torrent on the site (even if hidden) leechers still get charged and I still get SBP and upload credits for my torrent.

This is different than a DMCA take-down, where the torrent is actually DELETED (that is, it disappears completely from my list of uploaded torrents). In that case, any leecher who already has my information (IP Address, namely) can continue to download the torrent, but because said torrent is no longer a part of the site, I get no upload credit (or SBP) for it, and they do not get "charged" for it.

@raphjd said in Liberals are child and animal rapists:

@bi4smooth

Blah Blah Bloviated Blah...

So, you are saying it's the conservatives that are the ones that are once again pushing for pedo and animal rapists to become mainstream.

Define again - and show me a single mainstream politician (national) that is proposing to legalize pedo- or zoo-ophilia... EITHER PARTY!

That's as stupid as you claiming that Kyle Rittenhouse killed 3 black men in Illinois.

Sigh - that discussion was about using the word KILL vs MURDER, not about the race of the victims... leave it to you to focus on something non-salient to distract from your idiocy...

As for that book, you would have seen the video of the mother reading from the said book at the school board meeting and understood how pornographic it actually is.

I DO NOT CARE how "pornographic" you (or the mother) thought it was... that's not the point. Again, you never let facts get in the way of your moral outrage!

I do love how you play the victim. Even when I make a normal post that doesn't mention you, you have to get your panties in a bunch and attack me, then play the victim. Even if I do mention you, but just about how long I remember you posting here, you go all spastic and lose your rag. But you're the victim. Typical liberal.

ROFL - I am the one complaining (and even starting separate threads) to complain about being called names? I don't think so! Me thinks the lady (and I use the term VERY loosely) doth protest too much!

Just to summarize about 30% of your posts in the past year:

• You, being a white man, are constantly being persecuted by the liberal society

My own personal stance on that is:

• Me, being a white man, have continuously benefited from White Privilege - even when I didn't know it at the time. This fact was made especially clear to me once I became engaged to a Black man - and was exposed to the "same world" from his viewpoint.

@raphjd said in Universal Healthcare according to liberals:

@bi4smooth

But you, like any good CCP/DNC agent, love mandatory vaccines and creating 2nd class citizens out of the unvaccinated.

Still attacking the straw-man, I see... and still proving you are incapable of COMPREHENDING what you read...

Again, quoting myself from above:

Requiring people to take a vaccine PERIOD (as-in, there is no way to decide NOT to take it) is un-American and amoral to my Libertarian beliefs. If you ACCEPT that you cannot work for the Federal Gov't (or a contractor), or go certain places, or do certain things because of your choice, that's fine - BUT IT IS STILL YOUR CHOICE!

So, I guess the question is really this:

• Does one get to flaunt public health and endanger others, without any repurcussions? NO!!
• Does one have the freedom to consider the consequences of your actions - including the potential loss of certain privileges - and still choose NOT to be vaccinated? Absolutely

Using the school vaccinations as an example (again): if you feel so strongly about vaccines that you refuse to vaccinate your child, you absolutely have that right - but in exercising that right, you forfeit the privilege of a free, public education for your child. Thus, you absolutely DO have a choice!

@raphjd said in Universal Healthcare according to liberals:

@bi4smooth

So, you would support removing universal health coverage for any preventable illness/injury too?

Once again, you prove that your "reading comprehension" is at a pre-school level:

What I said was:

In short: this is wrong - on many levels - regardless of how pro-vax or anti-vax you might otherwise be...

I'm not sure how you missed that, or mis-interpreted it... except that you didn't even read it before replying...

Yeah! That's the ticket!