@drkind said in BitTorrent stuck on "Finding Peers" with 11 Seeders Feeding Torrent:

"Tracker gave HTTP response code 404 (Not Found)"

How do I fix this?

Sometimes you just have to wait. The site does have to undergo maintenance from time to time.

I think it's good that you post when you're getting errors (if it's not "site maintenance" then the admins need to know there is a problem)... but it's also unreasonable to assume that a "dark web" service that is free to you is going to have 99.999% availability!

@raphjd said in State Street Global Advisors will need permission to hire White men:

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/state-street-global-advisors-permission-hire-white-men

I would love to know the exact figures that are being demanded for this "diversity" quota.

Will it be like Tony Blair's 35% rule for non-white representation in media, despite that figure being over 3.5 times the non-white figures in the UK population? Now the 35% rule is just under 3.5 times higher than the UK population.

You post this as-if this were some Government rule or law.

This is a company who is challenging their own hiring managers to hire with more diversity.

Is it ham-handed and overkill (IMHO)? Sure! But they could decide to suddenly stop advising people to buy stocks and bonds and invest in Girl Scout Cookies if they wanted to - it's their business! They can run it into the ground if they want to! (No, I don't think hiring minorities and women will run the company into the ground - but I don't think "quotas" are a good start either).

@looselips said in copyright infringement:

I post a torrent that is DVD quality but yet other torrents that are the same titles stay up? Who do I contact about that? And what's the issue with mine but not theirs?

The in's and out's of DMCA reports are complicated - because they're set out - literally line by line - in law.

A "properly formatted" DMCA take down request has to have specific language in it, we well as links to the offending material. The site is under no obligation to "expand" any search for similar materials. (And to be sure, we wouldn't want that!)

So, if you got a note that your torrent was taken down for an DMCA request, then know that whoever sent the request supplied a link to your torrent... but not links to other torrents that may indeed have the same general content.

A friend of mine is a moderator on a different (non-porn) site, and they get a good laugh over some DMCA take-down requests - because they'll reference a DUPLICATE but not the original. So, they have to take down the duplicate, but they do not have to take down the original. (It's up to the "requestor" to identify any and all offending material... whatever they leave out, the site can leave in!)

I don't like DMCA takedown requests any more than you or anyone else - but they are a fact of life. In my (relatively long) experience, different sources go on DMCA "kicks" for a while - which is annoying, to be sure - but then they die down when they realize they're fighting a losing battle!

Both Sean Cody and Corbin Fisher studios once attempted to track down and PROSECUTE file sharers (both seeders and leechers)... they charges a few & even won some cases... but in the end it was too expensive to continue (in other words, their expenses with lawyers outweighed their losses from the illegal sharing).

@vmalar said in American circumcision:

@eobox91103 said in American circumcision:

But the guy who was circumcised is not wrong. He had nothing to do with the decision, and he has a right to enjoy his sex life--and his penis--to the fullest. Telling him that he is defective and mutilated serves no purpose.

You are trying to put words in my mouth. The practice of genital mutilation in newborn babies is archaic and wrong. No matter how much you try to justify it.

There is a custom in the Philippines I believe in which circumcision is a rite of passage of sorts. Teenagers want to have this done. Fine! You are 10 years or older, you can consent to this.

But to do that to a new born is evil.

Circumcision for religious belief is not a reference solely to "Old Testament" Judaism (that would seem a very Christian-centric view!).

While is it a common practice among ALL of the Abrahamic religions, it is also a religious rite among many African tribal religions, it was practiced on-again, off-again in Ancient Egypt, as well as Hellenistic Greece.

In many of these societies, the circumcision was NOT performed on infants, but rather on pubescent males - as a rite of passage into manhood. It was (esp in Egypt) also done to slaves to inhibit sexual activity as well as prevent disease. It was considered a mark of a "real man" to "endure circumcision" stoically - with ancient writing containing "bragging" about not "hitting out, screaming out, or scratching".

The practice of performing the surgery on an infant is something new-ish (last 2-thousand years or so?) - and done primarily to bypass the intense pain caused to older boys & men. (In other words, "if you're going to do it anyway, do it to the infant so there is less - at least memorable - pain" - which doesn't sound so "evil" after all).

Alternately, in some ancient sects, it was ONLY done to the priests and/or wealthy - and it was both a "secret" (how to do it safely) and a sign of great power and/or wealth.

Also: Egyptian heiroglyphs, when they show penises, show them as either erect (when you can't really tell - at least not in an artist's rendering) or as circumcised. They are never depicted without clearly showing the glans, and therefore not as "uncircumcised".

But all that proves is that it is an ANCIENT practice - not that it isn't time to stop it!

I'm with you on the desire to stop it (in general, and in non-religious circles). Where I'm not with you is in the characterization of it as something that is vile and evil.

I agree that it is medically unnecessary in the VAST MAJORITY of cases, and while there are reports en-masse that both support and decry the practice, some 5000 years of the rite hasn't shown that much of a difference, in either sexual promiscuity or masturbation.

As for whether it makes your journey into heaven any easier, we'll have to wait to know that - on an individual basis.

But I'm not prepared to enforce my beliefs on others in this case. Why? Because it's got a 5,000-year history of being benign ... essentially "cosmetic"... I would prefer to convince others that it is both unnecessary and painful to the infant - that is: convince with facts and science; than to try to force my beliefs onto others. (ESPECIALLY lest they, later, try to force their beliefs on to me!)

There is a word to describe that.... ah! yes! I've heard it before!

FREEDOM!

Do I personally want to end the wide-scale practice of circumcision, yes!

Am I willing to call parents who choose to circumcise their male children EVIL because of the decision? Certainly not!

@vmalar said in American circumcision:

@davis94 Read 'The Banality of evil' by Hannah Arendt in which she discusses the holocaust and how was a society blindly oblivious to the extermination that was going on behind the scenes. What you are asking the gay community is a similar thing. Why?

Really?

Comparing the holocaust to the practice of male circumcision?

Someone has gone off the deep end on this one...

Is it unnecessary? I believe so (Hasidic Jews might disagree)... but "child abuse"? Again: someone has gone off the deep end here.

One of the stated goals of the religious purposes of circumcision is to reduce masturbation - it goes to the absurd religious belief that all sex - outside of that intended solely to procreate - is bad.

Whatever happened to tolerance of people and beliefs that differ from your own?

@raphjd said in ILLEGAL: NJ Election Worker: ‘I’ll let you[Non-Citizen/Non-Registered Voter] fill out a ballot.':

Youtube Video

Another example of: Look! The SKY is falling! When it's actually just raining.

In most states, anyone who shows up at a polling place can claim to be a voter and obtain a ballot... it's called a "PROVISIONAL BALLOT" - and its validity is determined later - often only if the race is close enough to where the provisional ballots would "made a difference".

The acceptance of provisional ballots hails from a time where we were more interested in making sure EVERY VOTE COUNTS vs. "finding every way to throw out votes"!

@pwnlvr said in How many times do you jerk off in a week?:

@hottie124 I'm 54 and I average at least once a day, more at weekends. So I would say 10-12 times a week

I'm 57 and also try to keep my prostate healthy through frequent (daily, if I can) orgasms...

That said, I have a bf... we don't live together, but some nights I reach orgasm "by other means" and some (most) nights I reach orgasm "by my own volition"... but MOST nights (or mornings) I get off! I strongly believe it helps (and will help) me keep my "bedroom vigor" as I age...

Use it or lose it!

@davis94 said in American circumcision:

@vmalar 'The way they portray this movie is a lie. They don't look at both sides evenly or objectively. They spend the hour and half film demonizing circumcision and those that do it. I feel as if I've spent the length of this film watching a propaganda film about the joys of being uncircumcised and how anyone who has done it is evil and a horrible parent. This is trash and it's pathetic. I am sad to have seen it.'

perfectly fits this biased documentary. Once again people always thinking they know everything better and condemn when people don't agree with them.

I'm cut, I accepted it, I have no problem with it, so neither should you. How about we focus on more important things?

The fact that the gay community is so obsessed with 'foreskin' that they would purpsoely discriminate and leave out those that are cut from a community that should know best how horrible intolerance and discrimination is.

Male circumcision is a deeply cultural, often religious ritual. I haven't watched the video - the link above does not work for me.

But I will say this: In the US, male circumcision rates are plummeting... because, in part, the cultural "stigma" of being un-cut is going away... so, mostly it is the religion and the "but I had it done to me" folks who are still doing this to their male children. In my home State of Fla, the current rate of circumcision (on infants) is just 35% - probably influenced by our large Latin and Asian populations. (Source)

When I was born (early 60's), it was virtually assumed in the hospital that your male child would be circumcised... if you DIDN'T want it done, you'd have better have made that clear BEFORE the birth!!! (Source: my mother LOL)

When I was about to have my (our) first child, I did considerable research, even though we didn't even know the sex of the child yet (while THAT child turned out to be female, we would eventually have 9 kids, tho some of them were adopted from foster care - 4 of whom are male).

Of the 4 boys we either had, or adopted as infants, NONE were circumcised at our request (one had the procedure done at the insistence of the biological parents - whose rights were terminated a few months later).

There is nothing WRONG with the typical/normal male penis - the way it comes "from the factory"... there are claims, and counter-claims galore about everything from circumcision being a panacea of male child wellness, to it being the root of all evil (both are just a bit hyperbolic!)

The truth is, the practice (as I noted above) is societal in most cases (and the US is/was RARE in the Western World at circumcising a majority - previously a HUGE majority - of male infants).

But even in areas of the world where religion is the primary reason for the practice, rates are falling.

But, given that the OVERWHELMING majority of circumcisions are done on infants, there is ABSOLUTELY no cause to discriminate against people with or without a foreskin! Virtually NONE of them had a say in the matter!

For what its worth, my bf is uncut (Asian), and as noted above, I was cut as an infant. We have no issues with this difference...

Hi DandyLion - Good luck on your training! This is my FAV torrent site (I belong to 3)! Glad you're volunteering to keep things good/make things better!

Most "Staff" (other than @raphjd on the politics boards) seem keep a very low profile - it might be interesting to have a staffer who mingles with us commoners

@adamamin said in unregistered torrent and ratios:

@serenity no, because you're not uploading anything to anyone since the torrent doesn't technically exist.

Essentially true..

Technically, while you may actually be uploading or downloading data (because those are site-to-site connections - without involving the tracker or the site), when that UL or DL data gets reported to the tracker, there is no torrent to assign it to, so it doesn't count - in either direction.

@rhaskal said in Hello:

Greetings from Turkey. It is so nice to be accepted.

Welcome from Florida, in the US. You are not alone! You are special, but not UNIQUE! There are LOTS of people LIKE you, even though there is ONLY ONE you!

@lololulu19 said in What is MORAL?:

Actually, the word "Morality" comes from the word "mores". Mores are mereley behaviors practiced by the majority of society - which is hardly a credbile way to govern one's life. For instance, at various places and times, the majority of populations accepted slavery, bigotry, cannibalism, infanticide, incest, Barbra Streisand, etc.

Indeed - morals are "societally agreed upon acceptable behaviors"... In Greek times, older men had younger boys who "helped" them sexually - though neither orally or anally - the older man would "fuck" the boy between his legs, never penetrating any part of his body (which would have been "unclean"). In Roman times, older men had a collection of younger men and women he could do with as he pleased... even killing them... without legal penalty (the crime of murder only applied to Roman Citizens, not mere slaves!).

The issue with "morals" is not one of society - society's rules change - sometimes quickly (when I started out my professional life, I could have lost my security clearance by simply admitting that I had ever had sexual relations with another male! Now, 35 years later, my employer is not allowed to discriminate against me over the issue - I'm a "protected class" because I suck dick!).

The issue with morals is that some people refuse to follow the "morals" of their times. Even when they know something is wrong, they do it anyway. Children who steal candy - knowing it is wrong - are acting "amorally" (or immorally, if you must)... which takes you to the "strength" of the rules that make up morals:

• Is the crime the same if I steal a bottle of water than if I steal a car or an expensive piece of jewelry?
• Is the crime the same if the person I kill is "beneath me" - or was trying to kill me - or was an illegal immigrant - or was on my property?

There often are not easy answers there.

A human with a functional brain should realize what is right and what is wrong.

As you just said in your first paragraph: the ideas about what is right vs. wrong are societally put there! While it is fictional, read "The Lord of the Flies" sometime!

For instance, I am not proud of the fact that I eat meat, but I realize that as a human, I must eat meat as sure as I must breathe. We can eat LESS meat, and as fully grown adults are not as dependent upon it, but we need to consume other animal products to develop.

So, depending upon who you ask, eating meat is just part of nature - we (humans) are omnivores - we can subsist on any combination of plants and animals, though we are "healthiest" when we consume a mixture of both.

I know plenty of "vegans" who would argue that eating animal protein at all is "immoral" - and I would disagree with them. A classic case of how individuals can have "morals" that do not agree!

Now, getting to sexuality.
What is sexuality? Frankly, it is overwhelmingly a behavior which elicits pleasure - and even then overwhelmingly in the form of masturbation.
When it comes to genders.. what is worse?

1. two males stimulating each other - essentially as a form of masturbation - to achieve a sense of pleasure and satisfaction?
   OR
2. a male and female stimulating each other - with the risk of producing an unplanned, unwanted offspring - 24% of which are intentionally aborted in the USA, and quite a few more lost in miscarriages - and quite a few more who are born and neglected, unloved, and unsupported?

I'm with you there! Too many unwanted pregnancies! But I think you'll have a rough time convincing straight men they should be fucking each other solely for the purpose of avoiding unwanted pregnancies!

Mind you: I'm all-in on trying to convince them!

But let's get something straight here (no pun intended): the desire to have sex (more specifically, to orgasm) is PRIMAL - which is why, when there is no one to have sex with, we do it ourselves! The urge to "get off" is a basic biological one - tied DIRECTLY to the biological drive to procreate!

Still, what "turns you on" is entirely mental - but not on a conscious level (at least, not that we've been able to discern yet!) In general (and I teach my kids this) your body will tell you what you're attracted to: your dick gets hard, your pussy gets moist! You - as an adult human - have to figure out what to do from there!

• If you're attracted to boys, find boys who are attracted to you!
• If you're attracted to girls, find girls who are attracted to you!
• If you're attracted to both, apply BOTH rules above!

But keep in mind: your being attracted to someone is only 1/2 the equation! You only have a right (these are morals here!) to ACT on those attractions when the attraction is mutual - and even then, as humans, we also have the right to act counter to our attractions - so there must also be consent!

Also consider that in biblical times, birth control was virtually unavailable other than to take poison risking the death of the woman.
If someone asked JC "I have decided I am going to seek sexual stimulation instead of living my entire life as a virgin. What should I do, have sex with a man which will not result in a child OR have sex with a woman - doing everything possible to avoid a pregnancy - and hoping it does not happen - and if it does, killing or neglecting the baby?

You are trying to impose the morals of THIS society onto a historical figure 2000 years in the past. This isn't then, and then isn't now.

In the times of JC, the bible told you that you must "be fruitful and multiply" - there was no such thing as an "unwanted" child! Children were the PURPOSE!

Biologically speaking, that is exactly right! As with all other animal and plant life - our primary purpose is to procreate the species!

That said, as we've already pointed out - societally, we've come a long way baby! With nearly 8-Billion people on the planet, we can focus on things OTHER than making more people! And that brings into play the whole morality issue again: some religions (societies) continue to believe that it is the moral obligation of every woman to find a husband and to have (and raise) children. Other religions (societies) have other, differing views: that women can have other roles to play, and that we don't really need that many MORE people! (And there are an INFINITE number of other "moral" viewpoints out there - and that's the crux of the matter again: your "morals" may not be the same as my "morals" - they are not universal!

I realize that at certain times with young people in their 20's and 30's, they actually want to have children, and that is wonderful. However, realistically, that motivation for having sex is EXTREMELY RARE.

I suspect you just don't see them... check out your local listings for fertility clinics and OB-GYNs! There are LOTS of people TRYING (in some cases, DESPERATELY TRYING) to have children!

Even then, when this rare motivation for sex IS practiced, that makes women virtual breeding receptacles who spend their entire lives popping out more children and nursing them like cows - without having any other purpose in life other than propagation. Somehow, I don't think women would like to live their lives that way.

Biologically speaking, that is the female role: provide the vessel into which new lives grow, and feed the infants until they can subsist on other foods.

SOCIETALLY, (which, we you've pointed out - that means morally) we have agreed that we're above all that now... but you can't ignore biology either!

Interesting points!

@raphjd said in Pfizer Confirms COVID-Vaccinated People Can ‘Shed’ Spike Proteins And Harm The Unvaccinated:

https://www.nationaltimesaustralia.com/health/pfizer-confirms-covid-vaccinated-people-can-shed-spike-proteins-and-harm-the-unvaccinated/

What a piece of shit "reporting"... this is a right-wing Australian publication who is twisting a report of "all claims" as somehow a "confirmation" from Pfizer...

Once again, just a little "critical thinking" debunks some of these baseless claims:

• Your body is bombarded with billions of random "spike proteins" (and with certainty: deadly bacteria & active viruses themselves!) every minute of every day. But you have a natural protection barrier: your skin (though I suspect your's is so thin as to offer little, if any protection IRL!).
• For the COVID-19 spike proteins to cause a reaction in your body, they have to be INSIDE the body - where they themselves are completely harmless!
• The way the vaccine works is that these spike proteins trigger an immune response - that's the inflammation people report.
• You could literally drink a QUART of the vaccines and it wouldn't harm you... your digestive system is well accustomed to killing off bacteria and viruses, and digesting proteins - which is why this isn't an ORAL vaccine!
• The vaccine doesn't "course through your body" - it pretty much stays put in your arm muscle (where its been injected), which is why the inflammation and soreness typically linger there - at ther injection site.
• IF the vaccine NEEDED to "course through your body" to work, it would be injected into your blood stream, not a muscle - the way most antibiotics and drugs (not vaccines) are administered in hospitals. (IV drug users know the difference!).

Vaccines are not DRUGS - they are "cheat sheets" for your immune system. YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM HAS TO DO THE WORK - which is why the vaccines don't work well (in some cases, at all) for immuno-compromised people.

Really people: take - just a little - time to learn HOW these things work, and the fucking magic disappears - and with it, the booga booga attempts to scare you!

LOL - I am that hot (?) Daddy!

Personally, I like the smooth, lithe types who love to FLIP, but especially the ones who don't go soft instantly after orgasm! (Cumming twice is a super bonus!)

Anyway: Aiden Garcia is a regular favorite (who gives as well as he takes), and his current b/f, fellow Helix porn star Seth Peterson is pretty damned hot, too!

They can come hang out at my Florida pool anytime!!

@raphjd said in Teen shreds school board over mask mandates:

@bi4smooth

You can't read.

I was saying that the school board trusts the science when it goes their way and doesn't trust the science when it goes against them.

And I agreed with that - completely.

"No Shirt,....." rules are by business choice or by health code for food safety.

"No Shirt...." rules are for public health... the same as mask rules during a pandemic where the pathogen is aerosol spread

@raphjd said in Sheriff Presents Evidence of Felony Fraud in Election Commission's Actions: Wisconsin:

Another lie Feng Feng loves to tell is that I'm only against voter fraud because Trump lost.

My posting history on the topic, on this very site, proves he's full of shit.

Also, he claims to be a Republican. His 10 favorite "Republicans" are against the extremely vast majority of the party. There are 252 Republicans total in Congress (both Houses) and he only like 10 of them and he usually sides with Democrats on every issue I bring up. His 10 BFFs are Pelosi whores.

He claims that the vast majority of Repubs in Arizona are liars, but the proven liars in Maricopa are telling the truth. If Maricopa County is telling the truth, then why did they violate numerous court orders and state Senate subpoenas?

His version of libertarianism is exactly what we see in every dystopian movie, novel, video game, etc. People have no rights, while businesses have all the rights. He supports the Build Back Better mantra of "you will own nothing and you will be happy" because the businesses will own everything and people will have nothing. I guess we should not be surprised, he is after all a well know agent of the CCP/DNC.

He also voted for Chop SueyJoe and Dirty Kamala, but claims that's because he's a good Republican.

Old news intended to goad me into another flame war...

pass...

@raphjd said in Teen shreds school board over mask mandates:

Science doesn't matter to the Covid cultists.

Science mandated 1 mask, then 50, then 23, then 68, then 2 and now none.

The cultists love all but one of those mask mandates.

They scream that the "science" can go fuck itself when it says no masks are needed.

It's not about the science and never has been.

You once asked me if I knew more than actual scientists because I was able to read the official definition on the NIH website and compare that to the funding grant for Eco Health's Wuhan GOFR (turns out, I was right all along, thanks to NIH finally coming clean), but now you are saying school board twats know more than the county health board.

You are demonstrating, yet again, that you cannot read worth a shit!

My post said it was a local decision - and that the local SCIENTISTS said that, locally, they had reached the levels of COVID-19 sufficient to remove the mask mandate... and so it should be!

You don't "trust the science" and then "don't trust the science" just because it means you have to change!

Science changes!

It changed when we learned that COVID-19 wasn't spread by contact, but rather by aerosol (which is where the masks came in), and it's going to change as we begin to see it "burn out".

But the decisions still need to be made locally! If my county has a really low COVID-19 rate, but Miami-Dade still has a really high one, then we should be able to reduce our COVID-19 response level, while Miami-Dade should have to keep theirs at a higher level! (And if the data says the opposite, then so be it!)

COVID responses can be coordinated, and data corroborated - and analysed - nationally, but the responses need to be managed locally - and that was a HUGE Trump mistake (locking down the whole country, even though large areas had virtually NO COVID in them at the time!)...

We're still learning here... but, as I said in my post above... there is a little light at the end of the tunnel... we've a long way to go yet, but let's celebrate the wins we can get - including the areas where COVID is under control - and work that much harder on the places where COVID is still being a bitch!

But people -in general- do not like change - any change! So just as we're settling into "wear masks", people are going to bitch that the direction now is "not so much"... the same as the Trumpites who screamed bloody murder when the mask mandates came out!

I'm still clueless about one thing: just how was "wearing a mask" supposed to be controlling you? In any way beyond the "no shirt, no shoes, no service" rules?

@raphjd said in Youngkin (R) wins:

Youngkin (R) has won the Virginia Governorship

Thankfully, the DEMs attempts to plaster Trump all over Youngkin failed. If anything, it turned out MORE Republican voters!

NJ is a close race - too close to call as I write this... which is A-W-E-S-O-M-E, as NJ is usually a reliably BLUE State!

Another Republican candidate who didn't shove Trump away, but also didn't embrace him either!

@stranger13 said in Greetings!:

Here to make some friends and have a good time!

Welcome! Grab some of the free porn, pull down your shorts, and play a while!

@blackheart88 said in Sheriff Presents Evidence of Felony Fraud in Election Commission's Actions: Wisconsin:

ok first, i said potential for errors and irregularities in my granny case. I never said she could turn in both ballots under her name. The other two ballots under previous occupants, weren't they uniquely coded like you said? couldn't they be filled out and turned in?

If the entries on the Voter Rolls were still present AND the person filling out the ballot could successfully pass the ID tests (signature or notarized witness or copy of photo ID - different jurisdictions use different methods to ensure the person who returned the ballot is legit the same person on the Voter Roll.

People who insist there was "so much fraud" in the mail-in-ballot process seem to literally think that the people who make running free and fair elections their professions are stupid, new-at-this, and/or part-time... none of which is true!

There are LAYERS of protections - and yet, there CAN be some "bad ones" that get through... but that is the case in the in-person balloting as well (witness the old man who attempted to vote while impersonating his son! If the poll worker hadn't personally recognized the man, he'd have gotten away with it!)

2nd. I didn't say any specific citizen should be deprived of their right to vote. just pointed out the reason video claimed voter fraud because a severe cognitive impaired elder couldn't remember anything beyond JFK, cast her ballot one month before she passed away. Check Doe vs Row, 2001.

There are all kinds of scenarios that make end-of-life balloting tricky: what about the man who keels over of a heart attack while literally walking out the door of his precinct's polling place? What about the LOL (Little Old Lady) who dies the morning of Election Day, but mailed her ballot in a week earlier?

There are published rules in each jurisdiction about those cases - and they're all different. But the fact is, voting is SELDOM about 1 - or even 1000 votes. While it DOES happen that some are decided by a tiny fraction of votes, by far most elections are decided by full percentage-points, representing 1000's of votes...

3rd I didn't say mail in ballot a new thing. I'm aware of its existence in several states. I'm sure those states have done it for a long time, fine tuning to the point of "a stable of our election for over 30 years". But there were other states in which mass mail in was a first time thing. how do you know "they had plenty of practice" in those states? they properly cleaned up their voter roll/registration databases? Also I don't question their capability but their interests.

Mail-in-balloting isn't new (wasn't new) in ANY State (and it's wrong of you to believe that there are only 50+ State Elections Systems - when, indeed, there are over 1000 separate "elections systems" in the US - all very local. For example, here in Florida, each county administers its own elections, under the supervision of a state official. Next door, in GA, they again have a county-level "Supervisor of Elections", but instead of reporting to a single person, the "state supervision" is separated out to different officials.

Interesting read here about the strength and weakness inherent in the "distributed" nature of US Elections.

The change in 2020 was not an INTRODUCTION of mail-in-balloting in ANY jurisdiction - it was just the explosive GROWTH of it!

4th over 2000 year we didn't have covid-19 pandemic. Your point? Trump lost, ok so? What election officials said, believe what you want. Arsonists don't go out and publicly announce that they caused the fire (Coumo's and Whitmer's nursing home death coverup).

I don't know how to parse that... My only point about "Trump lost" is that is the only real evidence most Trumpites have to back-up their "massive elections fraud" claims from 2020 - as-if it's EVER a foregone conclusion someone will win! - is that Trump actually lost! (How could that have happened legitimately?)

• Hillary was supposed to win in 2016
• Dewey was *supposed to win in 1948

This isn't unprecedented!

5th you compared voter fraud to rape and murder. Lol I have no comment there; not interested in discussing ethics. I didn't say i have solutions for anything nor I brought up any. I'm not an altruistic person nor a saint. just pointed out the potential due to mass mail in in relation to the discussion of linked video.

I didn't compare the offenses - I'm sorry the analogy "didn't work for you" - they are simply human actions we (as a society) abhor and want to prevent from happening.

The point was simply: when you have populations of people, there will always be some "bad apples" who try to cheat/game the system or who just have "bad intentions" altogether.

You can't predict where those "bad apples" will strike next, so you have to mix protective measures (attempting to stop the behavior before it happens - like putting up streetlights in Central Park reduced the number of rapes there drastically, and how requiring voter ID would stop a lot of "impersonation" vote fraud!) with reactive measures (like detecting vote fraud and stopping those votes from being counted, or hunting down the murderers and putting them in jail)

If you can find a way to stop bad people from doing bad things before they do them, THAT is when you'll win the Nobel Peace Prize for a decade!

All to the point of: you cannot ELIMINATE vote fraud, you can just minimize it!

6th what far cry from what, I don't really care at this point. You have dragged the whole discussion too far out of its original topic.

Again, I'm sorry if the analogy threw you... I think you read way too much into it! LOL

You have a weird and twisted way to put words into other people's mouths. Also if you don't believe in my "granny" story, please just don't respond and waste your time. Attempting to read people intention by using assuming and inferring tones doesn't make you appear intellectual, just plain weird and creepy.

I didn't claim your "Granny story" was false - only that it didn't represent a pattern of "mass fraud" resulting in a "stolen election"...

Understand that I am a registered, and loyal Republican voter (since 1980!)... I want Republicans to win in 2022!

To do that, we (as a Party) need to let go of 2020 (where we can DO nothing but bitch, moan, lament, and whine) and focus instead on 2022 (where there is still very much to do!)!