@raphjd said in Arizona Audit report presentation, Cyber Ninjas share their results of election audit:

@bi4smooth

I guess you didn't watch the video.

It's ironic that your beloved DNC hated Maricopa County until this shit, and now they love them.

We already know you love voter fraud that works in favor of the DNC, as it almost always does. I mean, you keep telling us how wonderful it is and that we should ignore it.

Hell, even you claim to be a Repub and we see your stance on issues.

You just love to make me your Straw Man for all of liberaldom... whatever gets you off...

Sorry, but just because I call out the LIES about election fraud doesn't mean that I claim there was NO FRAUD AT ALL... there are always a few bad actors who, at least temporarily, get away with something...

But that's a FAR CRY from the kinds of MASSIVE fraud that would have been necessary to overcome Trump's humiliating loss - in both the overall numbers AND the Electoral College.

Nor does your attempted SPIN of the partisan AZ audit - that found totals completely in opposition to your early claims of "complete and massive fraud" = change anyone's mind about the 2020 results.

Your Trumpite side came out of that with egg on your face, and your attempts to make an omelette out of it are hilarious, if not also completely sad. The complete new definition of a sore loser!

When the grocery store finds a bad apple, they throw out the bad apple, and maybe a few more that were contaminated by it... they don't empty out the whole store and start over!

What's more - and I know this totally confuses you: I trust the professionals. Especially the ones who were members of the LOSING party, but were in a position to FALSIFY records, but did not - whether because there were sufficient checks in place to make doing so overly risky (which is true), or because they were (and remain) loyal Americans - dedicated to true Democratic ideals: that whoever gets the most votes, wins!

I don't give a rat's ass what the Dem (or Republican) parties think of the elections supervisors in AZ or GA or MI - I think they should keep their partisan hands OFF of running the elections! When you inject partisan "support" on one side or the other, you HAVE to remember that partisan things CHANGE SIDES regularly! So the partisan Republican you put in place this year becomes a partisan Democrat 5 years from now! Then you're REALLY in a pickle, because not only do they have the "extra powers" you gave to the position, but they also have "an axe to grind" for all the underhanded, partisan shit you pulled earlier. And it only continues to get worse, as each side keeps tying to "out do" the other when "they" get the power.

No thank you - I don't want my Doctor telling me to drink Clorox to cure COVID "because the President said so", and I don't want partisans counting ballots in an election!

My Dr can be a Trumpite in his personal life - none of my damned business... but he better bring his DOCTOR hat (and not his MAGA hat) to work every day!

Elections officials can belong to one party or another, but they are expected to leave that "at the door" when they come to work. Like Doctors, they are expected to be professionals... and most, like Doctors, are!

In both cases, not everyone is perfect... that's why each State has Medical Boards to review complaints about bad Doctors, and each State has layers of double-checking to ensure that bad actors in running elections get weeded out and discovered - usually very quickly!

That happened in 2020. It was arguably the CLEANEST election ever run in the US (we keep getting better at it!)... but that doesn't mean it was PERFECT or PURE....

Still, it was DECISIVE... and Trump lost the popular vote (again) as well as the Electoral College vote - by wide margins. Margins way too large to explain away with what irregularities were really there!

Trump suffered a humiliating loss - a solid rebuke by the voting public - similar to the one suffered by the first Bush (in losing to Clinton in 1992).

And Trump is lining himself up to do it again! His unfavorable rankings are so high: they're even worse than when he ran against Hillary! But since he ONLY surrounds himself with "yes men", he can't see it (none of them have the BALLS to tell him he's wrong!)

The NEW record for worst candidates for President will be: 1 - Trump (2024); 2 - Hillary (2020); 3 - Trump (2020); 4 - McGovern (1972)

A sad time for American politics...

@raphjd said in Where are the Biden supporters?!:

@bi4smooth

You are a dumb-ass DNC worshipper, that is why you get upset with me.

Stop being a liberal twat and respond to what I actually said. I posted about things that are actually happening in the US.

Why is California's new law on toys and different than Oregon telling teachers that correct answers are racist?! Hell, letting our kids grow up stupid is far worse, but you have your face buried so far into Pelosi's dried-up old vag that you can't see that.

Pull your head out of your ass and look at what is going on in the country and the world.

Stop fucking downplaying everything your beloved DNC does.

You sound like Jan Brady; Russia, Russia, Russia.

I am not the STRAW MAN you're looking for

I've never supported "new math" in schools, nor have I supported all this mass "standardized testing" - which essentially has our teachers "teaching the answers" vs. teaching problem solving or critical thinking.... Gee, I wish I'd said that earlier! Wait! I DID! Oh, I forgot - you can't comprehend compound SENTENCES, much less complex thoughts!

I am not the liberal you love to hate on... and my position about companies having the rights to display their toys any damned way they want to is based on my belief in "corporate rights" - rights you often want to trample when they go against your own views.

You see, that's a difference between us: its not that I think there should be a law AGAINST gender neutral toy aisles... and I'm not in favor of this law mandating them!

This is my libertarian and conservative sides converging on the same conclusion: There should be no law about this at all!

Companies (CORPORATIONS) should be allowed to display toys however they choose - It's supposed to be a FREE COUNTRY!

If Toys-R-Us wants to make gender-neutral aisles, I'm OK with that - even though I think its ridiculous! And if KayBee Toys wants to put "girl toys" on the other side of the store so as not to potentially attract any "iffy boys", then I'm OK with that too, even though I think that's wrong!

The Government has about as much "right" to say how toys are displayed as they do about whether public restrooms should be in the front or back of the store, and whether they should be for "paying customers only"! Namely: none.

What's next? Prohibiting women-owned companies from printing their employees paychecks on pink paper stock? LOL

@raphjd said in (CA) Gov Newsome vetoed Cal Grant expansion bill:

@bi4smooth

And there you are, always defending the DNC and liberal causes, while claiming to be a conservative.

The US and UK have the problem if it's better to be from somewhere else than your own country when it comes to getting welfare.

Scotland couldn't find enough homes for the homeless that they already has but found 2,000 homes for the Syrians they imported. Now we are seeing the same thing with the Afghanis.

It's like how New York spends just over 1% of what they spend on illegals, on 1st Responders and military and their families.

It's how you most revered Fauci, makes rules for us, but not for illegals.

You claim these are LIBERAL caused problems (inequities in spending on illegals vs locals) - yet most of those spending ratios were put in place when Conservatives were in power - and that's true in the UK as well as the US!

Your NY numbers are bogus by the way: they count ALL public health & public assistance money as money "spent on illegals", even though only a fraction of that money is spent on healthcare for illegals. The REAL shame is that some of these first responders - esp teaches - fit into BOTH categories: first responders who ALSO qualify for public assistance, like Food Stamps... that is SHAMEFUL! And BOTH parties are to BLAME for it, because it didn't START with one - both parties have been in power long enough to fix it at some point in the past 40 years!

NOTE: Healthcare is an issue where I am personally, admittedly, liberal: I believe that BASIC healthcare (wellness visits, recovery from serious illness/injury, vaccinations, etc) is a basic human right and not a privilege of and for the wealthy.

Back to our topic here though: Here in the US, the Biden Admin has been UNSUCCESSFUL at passing any MAJOR legislation, save for extra COVID relief! Zip! NADA! NIL! Thankfully, it has turned out SOME of their "moderate" members aren't willing to just throw almost $6T of federal money (debt) out the window and believe it'll solve everything! And their margins are so slim, without those 2 Senators, their massive spending bills are DEAD ON ARRIVAL!

Minority? maybe so, but their majorities are so slim, they have to appease their "moderates" and most left-wing "radicals" at the same time... good luck with that! Herding cats comes to mind! LOL Mind you, NO Republican will vote for ANY of these things - because in today's political climate, you can't vote for something - whether actually good or not - if it might make the other party "look good"... FUCK making the Country look or actually get better... if the "other guys" will get credit (not blame), then you cannot vote for it! Witness this debt ceiling bullshit!

As for your favorite Boogey-Man Fauci, what policy has he ever made that was for Americans but not Illegals?

• He doesn't actually MAKE policy, he recommends policy
• He makes recommendations to our politicians about public health policy - not immigration policy
• Politicians get/have to MAKE the policy... as we've seen from the Trump years, they don't always take the recommendations of the experts!
• Public Health policy (at least in the US) gets applied to everyone. There are no separate rules for vaccinating illegals or legals. There are no separate rules for wearing masks if you're illegal or legal. There are no public health policies about treating illegals, but not legals, when they get COVID.

Finally, you are in Scotland... unless your Parliament has done something REALLY strange, and somehow both seceded from the UK (something many ARE LITERALLY trying to do), and joined the US (not possible without approval from the US Congress - i honestly don't think we'd "take you"... no offense...), then Fauci hasn't made a SINGLE RULE for you, and NOTHING the DNC (much less the RNC) has done in the past 40 years has affected YOU , NOW (currently)!

On behalf of the ENTIRE US Population: thank you for your concern: but butt-out... we've got it managed, thanks! Focus on your own piles of shit over there, thank you very much! Your "us" and the "Royal we" are clearly misplaced! We don't even HAVE Royals (no, not even Trump! We voted that "would-be-King" out, remember?)
[Sarcasm: off] LOL

Again, though: I'm not FOR any Democrat being in power - but I'm not going to blame them for my dog dying and the lunar eclipse just because my political opponents are currently in-power, albeit by the slimmest of margins!

I am actually ENJOYING the Dem's vapid attempts to "fix everything once they get into power"... it's all well and good to claim your policies are better, and deride the policies of "the idiots in power" when you are the truly powerless "minority opposition"... it's another thing entirely when you have to ACTUALLY GOVERN yourself! Your wacko pie-in-the-sky policies DO NOT actually turn smog into cotton candy when ACTUALLY put into place! And those "deplorable" immigration policies aren't so awful when you're the one having to deal with the massive inflow of immigrants at the borders!

Be that as it may, I also recognize that the worse they do, the worse things will be for us when we regain power (in 2022 in Congress? Let's PRAY Trump doesn't ruin that!)... and the harder that will make it for US to "fix everything that's wrong once we're back in power"...

My point is, though: If you claimed Hitler and Musselini were pedophiles who ate their prey: Jewish children, for dessert every night... I would say "NO, you 're making that up" - not because I support fascism (I do not - witness my opposition to Trump), but because I value TRUTH above making up ridiculous lies about my opponents! I want to win political arguments based on the MERITS of my positions, not based on lies made up about the opposition!

Funny thing: sometimes I learn that way - and sometimes I'm convinced that the other guy has a better plan or idea than me! I'm not above being wrong... you should ty it sometime... learning new things (instead of defending old things) is sometimes good!

Hmmm... Coming Out... This gets complicated for me:

My first male/female sexual encounter happened in the 3rd Grade (yup, just 9 years old) when I was on my way home from school, walking through the woods that I did every day, and happened onto 2 5th-Grade girls comparing tits and pubic-hair. I got to see theirs, so they got to see mine... We kept our encounters very VERY SECRET. (NOTE: I DID have a "real" dick at that age - it was NEW to me - that's precisely when my own public hair started to come in! Awesome timing, eh?) My first male/male sexual encounter came shortly after I started the 6th Grade (11 y/o), and it was with my 15 y/o neighbor. Again, we kept the whole thing a COMPLETE SECRET! There were others throughout middle & early high school: both boys AND girls... and it always a HUGE SECRET!

While I liked playing "sex games" with guys, I also REALLY liked fucking girls & playing with their tits! (The guys I was fooling around with then didn't do anal sex (we were dumb kids!) - so the only FUCKING at the time was with girls!).

But it's important - in terms of coming out - that I didn't know you were "allowed" to do both boys and girls! And NO ONE I was having sex with was telling me about anyone else they were having sex with - so I thought I was TRULY breaking ALL the rules! I was a FREAK! I had no label for myself - I had learned about heterosexual and homosexual, but knew no other labels. I lied to the boys I was playing with (saying I was homosexual, like them), and I equally lied to the girls I was playing with (saying I was heterosexual, like them). I knew of NO ONE who was LIKE ME in that they liked boys and girls...

However, late in the 8th Grade, my SECRET was revealed: it turned out that one of the boys and one of the girls I was playing around with were brother & sister (I swear I didn't know!)... and they talked! I was TOTALLY OUTED to them. I was hugely embarrassed... and they were FURIOUS with me! But they came from a VERY unusual (nudist) family, and eventually they thought it was cool, so long as there was no deception - though they were ADAMANT that they would NOT play together! I vowed to NOT be in that position ever again! Truly from that day onward, no sexual partner of mine has NOT been aware that I've had sex with both men and women in my past!

But still, other than those 2, and relatively quickly thereafter, all of the others I was having sex with, I was a completely closeted - and unique person. Not one of them admitted to me that they were attracted to both boys and girls. I dared not tell anyone else about this - especially my parents. What kind of freak did they raise?

Let me reiterate here: I (like many teens) had LOTS of sex in high school - some with boys, some with girls - and all knew that I had-had sex with both boys and girls... and no one - not one other person - ever told me they were bisexual too!

Then I went to college...I didn't expect it to be the SAME as it was in High School, but I went to school in "a big city" - Atlanta, GA - and while it was the "Queer Capital of the South" in those days, that WAS NOT TRUE on our campus! I got "outed" my freshman year by a roommate who found my porn stash... and I was nearly thrown-out of my Fraternity as a result. They LITERALLY had a VOTE on whether to keep me in, or expel me - for the "offense" of being bi-sexual! Mind you: I never disclaimed being bi - I just asked them why they cared so much if they didn't want (themselves) to have sex with me? I "won" by just 2 votes! Funny tho: in my Jr year, I was elected VP of that frat!

That happened in the Spring, so I was freshly 18 - and out, although not of my own volition. Not only as I "out" to my frat, but I was basically "out" to everyone - my fraternity brothers couldn't keep a secret to save their ass!

It wouldn't be until my Sr year in college that I ever met someone ELSE who got off just as well with girls as boys (and wasn't looking for it as a way to cheat of their bf/gf)... He was in a different frat - and was totally out to them, and totally accepted by them. That was an awakening to me! He was "allowed" to be himself - he could bring girls OR guys to his room and no one batted an eye over it! (I had been asked to "be discrete" and never bring a "gay guy" to the frat - where I lived.) So, any way you look at it, I was OUT virtually all through college.

But here's where it gets weird: In my first job after graduation, I needed a military security clearance - and being gay (or bi) was considered, at the time, to be a legitimate cause for losing said clearance (and with it, my job and my career!)... so for that time of my life, while I was still "out" to the people I had sex with (or wanted to have sex with), I was TOTALLY closeted in the rest of my life! It is the ONLY time in my life I have ever LIED (publicly) about my sexuality: I declared myself "straight" on multiple occasions - including on my clearance applications.

That didn't stop me from having boyfriends and girlfriends... but it DID mean I never went to gay bars or gay pride events (though I DID attend the first ever Gay Days at Disney - and I wore the requisite RED! ... I truly considered even that small act to be a risky one, and feared for weeks afterward that I would lose my job over it!). I didn't.

I didn't get married until I was 35 - to a woman, and she knew my sexual past. I told her I would never cheat on her, and I never did - except for porn... which she would later claim ACTUALLY WAS cheating on her... but that's another story. While we were married we had, and adopted, a total of 9 children - and during this time the world's appreciation for LGBTQ+ changed immensely! I even helped write the new laws in my state that legalized gays & lesbians becoming foster parents, and later adoptive parents!

While my sexuality never changed, my sexual ACTIVITY while I was married remained STRICTLY monogamous and heterosexual. (Though my now-ex-wife claims vociferously otherwise... but, remember: she considered watching porn "cheating" - and I DID watch porn!) Anyway, as my children got older, and I taught each of them about the "birds and the bees", I came out to each of them (as pansexual) as well. That wasn't risky: they got their morals from me and their mother, so I knew it was SAFE to do so.

Still, especially after 15 years in a straight marriage, I was never "public" about my LGBTQ+ "alignment"... I never hid it, but I certainly never advertised it either.... at least not until I met the love-of-my-life: David. Once we became a couple, it became VERY CLEAR to EVERYONE that I was queer. And to this day (even though David passed 4 years ago), I wear a rainbow mask, gay pride t-shirts, and so forth. Today, I'm 57, out and proud, and some of my children attend gay pride events with me!

So, as you can see: mine has been a long, strange journey - probably VERY different from yours. But I do have suggestions:

• Come out for you, not them (whoever they may be).
• Come out when it is SAFE for you do so, and have a plan in place in case it doesn't go well - a place to stay the night, a way to separate from whoever in case it becomes a dangerous situation - JUST IN CASE!
• TRUST your family: assuming you were raised by them, you share (largely, at least) a common moral code. Clearly there are exceptions to this - some families ARE NOT SAFE for LGBTQ+ people... of any age! But trust yourself too - to make the right call!

It hasn't always been easy: I've missed out on some hot, sexy, men and women who were NOT OK with my pansexual nature and history, and flat-out rejected me because of it... c'est la vie! But, I've also had a LOT of incredible and interesting sex with men and women who were far more willing to be EXPERIMENTAL with me because they knew of my full sexuality!

SHIT happens - let's hope you weren't the ONLY seeder on those...

Sadly, for you to recover those files, you will have to re-download their torrents - which will hurt your download rights. With luck, that's not a problem for you.

Just something to think about in the future: RAID

I use a device from QNAP, many others use devices from other companies (Syology is also popular)... it's worth the investment so that when your hard drive fails (they ALL fail eventually, folks!) you don't lose data!

@lololulu19 said in (CA) Gov Newsome vetoed Cal Grant expansion bill:

@raphjd hmm.. I could have my cock lengthened, and skin darkened. I could simply shave my head bald instead of getting jheri curls. To really cash in, I could intentionally become HIV+.

Seriously though.. how insulting is it to have rules which forbid evalauting people based upon their math, science, and english skills? When did numbers become racist?

Anyone else here the echo? This IS an echo chamber, no?

These two damned fools bouncing more and more made-up shit off each other!

Tweedle-Dee: Did you read where they outlawed RED M&Ms?

Tweedle-Dumb: (sic) Yeah, it's because they're afraid of people mistaking them for blood sacrifices!

Tweedle-Dee: I know, they're always trying to stop people from exercising their free religious rights!

Tweedle-Dumb: Exactly! Next, they're going to outlaw wearing a cross!

Tweedle-Dee: Yeah, the outlaw all of the religions that aren't theirs! It's a communism!

Yeah... you go boys...

[NOTE: grammatical and parts-of-speech errors are intentional... based on source material... LOL]

@bi4smooth said in California decides to MANDATE gender-free toy aisles:

Yup, you read that right!

The Greatest Nanny State is at it again, this time telling retailers how they can and must display children's toys.
[https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-09/california-will-require-large-retailers-to-provide-gender-neutral-toy-sections]

Certainly there is a place in retail where you HAVE to have certain laws - for health and safety:

• spills must be cleaned up quickly
• large, heavy items cannot be stored high up
• aisles have to be wide enough for a wheelchair to pass
• sharp/dangerous items cannot be reachable by small children

But gender neutrality for toys?

What, are we afraid that Johnny, who wants a Barbie Doll, a Princess Dress, and a Nurf Gun is going to be upset that the first 2 items are in a pink aisle, and the other one in a blue aisle? GIMME A FUCKIN BREAK

This is WELL BEYOND the purview of "the State" (meaning ANY Governmental body - local, state, federal, global, inter-galactic, you name it!). If retailers want to put doll houses next to army toys, that's their call! If there is demand (consumer demand, not political demand) for gender-neutral toy aisles, then they will come! But this is not the place for Government mandates!

I'm queer - 2, possibly 3, of my 9 children are non-straight. I don't have a problem with gender-neutrality - but I also don't think it's any of the Government's business how retailers design the displays in their stores (excepting, as noted above, for health/safety).

And don't give me any BULLSHIT about kids' emotional health & safety... by the time they're old enough to understand that blue is for boys and pink is for girls and they're supposed to be playing with one, but not the other - but they WANT to play with the other... by the time they're old enough to realize that, they're also old enough to have ALREADY figured out that they're not like the other kids...

The right message to send to them is "IT'S OK to be different" - not an absurd attempt to say "NO, YOU'RE NOT DIFFERENT AT ALL!... when they can easily see for themselves that the ARE INDEED different!

[One final add-on here: If stores were doing something stupid: like not allowing boy's parents to buy their sons dresses or doll houses, or girl's parents to buy their daughters footballs or Army men - that would be different. That would be a discrimination. One that no reasonable retailer would do - a sale is a sale - but none the less, that would be an instance where Gov't might ALSO need to step in!]

Yup, you read that right!

The Greatest Nanny State is at it again, this time telling retailers how they can and must display children's toys.
[https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-09/california-will-require-large-retailers-to-provide-gender-neutral-toy-sections]

Certainly there is a place in retail where you HAVE to have certain laws - for health and safety:

• spills must be cleaned up quickly
• large, heavy items cannot be stored high up
• aisles have to be wide enough for a wheelchair to pass
• sharp/dangerous items cannot be reachable by small children

But gender neutrality for toys?

What, are we afraid that Johnny, who wants a Barbie Doll, a Princess Dress, and a Nurf Gun is going to be upset that the first 2 items are in a pink aisle, and the other one in a blue aisle? GIMME A FUCKIN BREAK

This is WELL BEYOND the purview of "the State" (meaning ANY Governmental body - local, state, federal, global, inter-galactic, you name it!). If retailers want to put doll houses next to army toys, that's their call! If there is demand (consumer demand, not political demand) for gender-neutral toy aisles, then they will come! But this is not the place for Government mandates!

I'm queer - 2, possibly 3, of my 9 children are non-straight. I don't have a problem with gender-neutrality - but I also don't think it's any of the Government's business how retailers design the displays in their stores (excepting, as noted above, for health/safety).

And don't give me any BULLSHIT about kids' emotional health & safety... by the time they're old enough to understand that blue is for boys and pink is for girls and they're supposed to be playing with one, but not the other - but they WANT to play with the other... by the time they're old enough to realize that, they're also old enough to have ALREADY figured out that they're not like the other kids...

The right message to send to them is "IT'S OK to be different" - not an absurd attempt to say "NO, YOU'RE NOT DIFFERENT AT ALL!... when they can easily see for themselves that the ARE INDEED different!

@raphjd said in Does a Bidet Make Your Day?:

@flozen

We have a bidet in this house and our previous house.

Thanks for following Netiquette.

In the ABSENCE of a bidet, I use baby-wipes (or an equivalent) to clean after defecating.

If I'm stuck in public and can ONLY use paper, I'll wet it (even spit on it) to TRY to improve its effectiveness, but once I get home I literally MUST go clean myself. I feel DISGUSTING if all I've used is plain, dry paper!

My old house had a bidet (attached to the toilet, not a separate item)... my current one does not, and the bathroom is not "architected" in such a way as to make it feasible - and its a rental, so I can't remodel.

FWIW: I won't rim a guy unless I've wiped his ass with a moist towelette or baby wipe or wet cloth... SOMETHING! EWWW....

Thanks for the post! Interesting topic, given that the US id kinda famous around the world for our LACK of bidets! But that's changing... albeit slowly, it it changing!

@raphjd said in Arizona Audit report presentation, Cyber Ninjas share their results of election audit:

Youtube Video

Of course, liberals and fake conservatives think they already know everything about the audit because they watch liberal MSM, which didn't tell them about everything the audit found and the illegal antics by Maricopa County.

Spin baby spin...

Under-counted votes for Biden...
Over-counted votes for Trump...
Elections supervisors are/were Republican...

IT WAS STOLEN!

Of course it was - a conspiracy of 87-million people who wanted anyone but Trump to be President...

Come 2024, Trump better have a way to get 90-million votes, not just 75-million he thought would be enough in 2020!

@raphjd said in Where are the Biden supporters?!:

@bi4smooth

You don't want to reform the system because you love what the liberals are doing.

Math is racist. Do you remember that shit?

Correct answers are racist. Do you remember that shit?

Acronyms are racist, so they changed the acronym. Do you remember that shit?

There's plenty more, but I'm sure you don't remember any of this because it doesn't fit your agenda.

You have no problems with the "summer of love", but you screech like a crack whore in church over 6 Jan. You love terrorism when your side does it, but get butt hurt over a tiny incident by conservatives. And let's not forget that at least one of your beloved BLMers was there as an active instigator.

You are constantly silent over anything and everything liberals do, but you go mental when conservatives call it out.

Arguing with you about politics is like arguing with a dog (dogs are mostly color-blind) about the difference between Chartreuse and Lime (colors that are green-ish).

It's all black and white to you...

Instead of complaining about REAL issues/abuses of Liberals (e.g. California passing a law requiring toys be displayed in gender-neutral aisles - reference), you post about bullshit like illegals getting healthcare or an education, or about some other inane topic that's been spoon-fed by your Russian and/or Chinese handlers to instill division and hatred.

Where does the Government get off telling retailers how they have to display their toys? How is this not Government overreach and abuse?

It'd be one thing if there was safety involved: no stacking heavy items on shelves above 3-ft off the floor or something.

But toys have to be displayed in "gender neutral" settings? Where is the "health or safety" in that?

I'm queer and I think this is insane!

But you go on reciting your Russian memes...

BTW: Now that it's not about COVID-19, Texas Gov. Abbott very reasonably said in response: "Not in Texas!"

He went on to very correctly say: "In Texas, it is businesses — NOT government — that decide how they display their merchandise."

Reference: here

@raphjd said in Where are the Biden supporters?!:

@bi4smooth

Maybe you need to stop being the panty shield for the DNC.

I already posted about the pre-school teacher who indoctrinated kids into her crazy ideologies. She also asked what kind of permission slips she would need to teach them about kink. This came from her TikTok and Twitter accounts.

One Pre-School Teacher (or even a dozen) and all of US Public Schools are indoctrinating US Children into Critical Race Theory...

My point isn't that no teacher is bringing it up, nor have I said it was a theory I agreed with... my point (for you any anyone else who is incapable of understanding complex thoughts) is that these alternate theories NEED to be taught to our HIGH SCHOOL students - and evaluated for what they are: lopsided viewpoints with a political agenda.

Our students SHOULD NOT be shielded from wacky theories (even conspiracy theories) - because if they aren't TAUGHT how to apply LOGIC and CRITICAL THINKING to these downright STUPID ideas.... well, no offense, but they'll turn out like you! Believing everything they read because of its source, and EASILY being led astray - like pigs to a trough - as a result.

And more to the point of my earlier post: I never claimed no one in public schools has ever mentioned CRT - I said there were no CLASSES in it! (Unlike some colleges and universities).

There are many other examples of this shit, some of which I posted about here, but all are available on the internet. In many cases, the teachers are bragging about what they are doing, on their own social media. Others have been recorded by students and others, while in the act.

You want to hold all of US Public Schools up as RIFE with corruption and liberal propaganda... if we applied the same rules to the RIGHT WING, we'd be looking at the football coaches who are active members of the KKK, and the history teachers referencing the Civil War as "The War of Northern Aggression".

NEWS FLASH: Teachers are PEOPLE! Some of them will be LIBERAL. Some of them will be CONSERVATIVE. ALL of them (in the US) will be undervalued and underpaid. most US parents are more interested in the BABY-SITTING aspect of schools than their curriculum!

Just because you have your head so far up your own ass, does not mean that it is not happening.

You silly twit - I say "the forest is on fire" and you show one tree that's NOT on fire and claim I'm crazy. (Intentionally reversed analogy there! )

Show me the Internet Report that shows a SINGLE PUBLIC SCHOOL (not a college or university) in the US - that has a COURSE in Critical Race Theory!

Are there some teachers bringing it up? Of course! There are also some teachers claiming that Jan 6 was a peaceful rally and some of the participants just wandered into the US Capitol for a tour! I'm also certain SOME of those teachers will be ISLAMIC! They might even mention ISLAMIC LAW to their students! (Which I'm fine with, so long as they're not enforcing it!) Some of them will think Social Security is SOCIALISM creeping in on our CAPITALIST society! Some of them will think the Lunar Landings in the 1960s were hoaxes...

Fuckin' A dude - teachers are PEOPLE - and there are kooks in the mix (there are most definitely pedophiles in the mix!) The point isn't to vilify the (very important, very needed) profession (or institution) .... yes, there are bad apples! There are lazy people in the Post Office! That doesn't mean we shut it down! As in ALL PROFESSIONS, there will be bad apples... you find them, and you cull them from the ranks. And you do the best you can with the resources you have!

This is called MANAGEMENT.

As opposed to your method, which is called FANATICISM.

I tell you what: When you find enough White Christian men and women with at-least a Master's Degree in Education who want to give up their well-paying jobs to teach in public schools for about $40k/year - and have elected officials (school board members) - some of whom didn't even pass HIGH SCHOOL - tell them how to do the job!... You get all that... THEN I'll listen to your ideas of how to reform the system!

@raphjd said in Where are the Biden supporters?!:

@bi4smooth

Your DNC panty shielding is superb, as always.

You clearly believe whatever Joy "the proven liar" Reid tells you. I bet you scissor with Rachel Maddow while you spew DNC propaganda at each other.

You absolutely refuse to condemn anything the DNC does, yet you claim to be a Repub. Funny that.

You are nothing but Pelosi's whore.

There's plenty of proof that kids are being taught CRT and it's from teachers themselves. Teachers can't help themselves but brag about teaching CRT to kids. But of course, in your DNC anti-white mind, teachers are liars when they say this crap, but 100% honest about everything else, except when they aren't due to you not liking the optics.

I mean, didn't we have those teachers caught admitting the brainwashing kids, on video? Hell, Yvette Felarca was getting kids to abuse wrong-thinkers in her class and that was over a decade ago and she was shielded by the Berkley school district.

Instead of getting your "news" from leftist MSM, try getting it from various sources.

BTW, even your beloved CNN called you a liar. On 20 Jan 2021, they wrote that Trump will get $221,400 in pension alone and over $1mil in other benefits. So, now you have to explain who the liar is, you or your beloved DNC propaganda wing, CNN. Be careful because either way, it's not going to end well for you since if you claim they are the liar, then you admit your "news" source is full of shit, or you are admitting you are full of shit.

Maybe try Google or better yet, DuckDuckGo before you go off the deep end.

Well, unlike some people I know (ever look in the mirror @raphjd?) I admit when I get something wrong... the add-on comment about Trump not getting a pension is wrong, because of the "Former President's Act." Afraid I believed the VA rep I was working with when I almost went to work for them last year. C'est la vie - it wasn't the major point of my post though...

That said, the rest of your "retort" is classic @raphjd - which is also right out of the Trump playbook: if you don't agree - totally - with me, then... well, "you're a liberal" "you love Pelosi" "you're not a real Republican"

Maybe - just maybe - if you applied a little Critical Thinking to the false & misleading propaganda you regurgitate endlessly here, you'd catch some of your own mistakes....

Oh, I forgot - you don't MAKE mistakes... you and Trump... Perfection Personified....

@ike123454321 said in is 400 kBps upload low?:

just posted my first torrent and it currently has to leachers and the upload speed is only 300-500kb's seems low. I'm using a vpn and my upload speeds are like 5mb's my client is set to unlimited, i have have port forwarding on. What else can i do?

Your SEED speed cannot exceed the LEECH speed of the combined LEECHERS.

In other words, if the downloaders have slow Internet speeds, your UPLOAD speeds won't matter.

Give it some time

@eobox91103 said in Where are the Biden supporters?!:

I think it's $164K/year, not month...but the fact-free websites wouldn't want to hear that.

LOL - I guess I got a little hyperbolic in describing their hyperbole!

I have corrected my post - thanks!

Loved your commentary... I'm always suspicious when I can't see someone's face - but porn is just fantasy, and in some of the POV content, the idea is clearly for you to imagine that being YOUR cock being sucked or ridden! (Curious that there are NO POV movies where the POV is from the BOTTOM's perspective!

WRT Disney: I grew up in Central Fla, and my first job post-college was on the Space Coast (a short-ish drive from Orlando)... when my 1st-ever "true love" boyfriend and I broke up, I started dating the guy who played Prince Charming in the Main Street Electrical Parade! Hot as Fuck in costume, and equally so out of it! (rare case of an actually beautiful penis! Normally, to me, a dick is a dick LOL)

We actually had sex once, during park hours, in the bushes near Cinderella's Castle... we also had oral sex ON the Haunted Mansion ride - precisely because he knew HIS ex was working the ride and could see EVERYTHING in the IR cameras that kept surveillance on the whole ride!

Sadly, he was one of my FIRST lessons that some guys are just pricks in a pretty package! My Prince Charming was a huge prick (back then, at least! - and I don't mean length or girth!)... in a VERY pretty package!

WRT faces in porn, though... I honestly don't care about their face usually... which is TOTALLY OPPOSITE of IRL (a Grindr profile with no face is a major RED-FLAG - and usually an early block!)...

While you fetishize the faces of the porn models, I tend to fetishize their torsos... I couldn't care less about their dick size, but a beautiful, smooth, art-free chest is a MAJOR turn on for me! (which I recognize is my fetish -- y'all are equally entitled to your own!!) LOL

Again, thanks for sharing!

@raphjd said in Where are the Biden supporters?!:

It's not just Covid, that parents are objecting to. Parents are objecting to teachers and school boards forcing their white-hating, liberalism on kids instead of teaching facts.

There's a lot to unpack here - forgive the length:

@Raphjd: You are once again proving that your talking points come DIRECTLY from your Russian (or Chinese) handlers... whether you know (or admit) it or not!

First of all, you're conflating 2 separate things here:

• Parents who are getting angry and violent at school and school board meetings over the issue of requiring students to wear masks in school. THESE parents get angry and violent when their anti-mask views are often voted-down by school board members who actually look up the science and base their actions on sound science vs. Internet memes and falsified information.
• Other parents, in other meetings, getting fired up over a dog-whistle non-issue of Critical Race Theory courses being taught to their children in High School. Most of these parents go into these meetings hell-bent on making sure these topics are NOT being taught in our schools, and come out satisfied - because they never were to begin with... no violence here, just a lot of emotion over false information that was easily refuted.

While the issues are not totally unrelated (they do both have to do with schools), there is more similarity there than you might think:

• Both positions (that mask mandates are an effort by the Government to "control" the populace and/or inhibit "personal freedoms"; and that there are actually Critical Race Theory courses hiding in our public schools & teaching white children to hate their own race) are false-flag propaganda points fueled by American adversaries (China, Russia, Iran, N Korea, Afghanistan, ???). Their intent is to fuel anti-Government and underlying racial tensions in an ongoing effort to destabilize our country.

In my mind though, the CENTRAL ISSUE in both "fights" is the complete and utter lack of CRITICAL THINKING - not only by the parents who weren't taught how to think critically in THEIR schools 20 years ago, but ALSO by the students not being taught this basic skill in our schools NOW - out of fear that somehow they'll grow-up thinking DIFFERENTLY than their parents!

Students graduating from High School today (much less their parents) should be able to figure out:

• If my AirPods come with a USB-C to Lightening charger, and I only have USB-2 & USB-3 ports on my PC, but no USB-C - does that mean I have to buy an Apple to charge my AirPods? (no - any USB to Lightening charger will do just fine!)
• Is £20 too much to pay for breakfast in a street-side cafe? How about €20? (Simple math too much for you?)
• Is it reasonable to think that Republican Secretaries of State around the country conspired to steal the 2020 Election away from their own Republican candidate because they're all secretly Liberals? (in a word: no!)
• Is it reasonable to believe that countries around the world are all lying about the COVID-19 pandemic in a coordinated effort to make Donald Trump look bad and lose an election? (also, totally ridiculous!)
• It is reasonable to believe that a secret cabal of Jews control what films get made - even by Christian and Muslim filmmakers - and who gets cast in major movies in Hollywood? (again, unbelievably stupid - on its face!)
• Is it reasonable to believe that "Big Pharma" wants to give you COVID-19 shots to kill you? (Think: less overall people, fewer doses needed - now, or in the future... that would mean LESS profit!)
• Is it reasonable to believe that refugees from around the world want to come to the US - not for economic or freedom-based reasons, but rather in a coordinated (exactly by whom?) effort to displace and replace White Americans? (get real!)

But there are other examples that are less clear-cut:

• Is it reasonable to assume that "Big Pharma" has withheld an HIV CURE because the high-profit, expensive to discover/create, daily "maintenance" medications are just TOO profitable to give up?
• It is reasonable to assume that foreign adversaries (Russia, China, N Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, ???) may have learned from the US's (and many other countries - including Nazi Germany) great success at fermenting dissent by spreading false propaganda?
• Is it reasonable to assume that the COVID-19 makers want their vaccines to need boosters to "maintain maximum efficacy"? After all, even though they're sold to the US Government at a limited profit, they're still making a LOT of profits off of these shots!

You know: In order to TEACH critical thinking, you HAVE to EXPOSE students to wakko theories and let them figure out for themselves that they're bogus!

For example: I took an advanced Economics course in college. There was a term paper due at the end of the course. It was revealed AFTER THE FACT that students who supported the PROPOSED theory - supported vociferously by our professor in class - could receive no higher a grade than a B. Only students who DISAGREED and wrote their paper in OPPOSITION to her "theory" could earn enough to get an A in the class.

There were HOWLS of protest - but it all came down to this: it was an ADVANCED class! You were expected to USE YOUR OWN MIND (and knowledge) - not just regurgitate what the professor had said. The facts and figures, not to mention the sources, for the rebuttal to the professor's clearly (to those who actually listened) misguided position were right there in the course materials (AND lectures!)... In other words, a letter-grade in the course was based on the premise that you paid attention in class, but came to a different conclusion. There were only a small number of students who failed to see this coming - and they were quite loud in their protests... to no avail. The professor actually regularly won "Best of the Institute" awards from students!

Now, I know that @raphjd and his ilk are going to claim that this makes me a Liberal... nothing close though. What it makes me is someone who doesn't listen to crap and just believe it because of the source! I apply critical thinking (and problem solving) to every part of my day - every day!

A typical example: my uncle just forwarded me yet another Internet-sourced article decrying how Nancy Pelosi was going to rake in close to a $million in Government pensions when she retired.

If you believe the US Gov't and taxpayers are inherently stupid and crooked, this might be believable... after all, the source goes on to list all the "pensions" she'll get: $233K/yr for life for being Speaker, another $193k/yr for life for being Minority Leader, plus another $174k/yr for life for being a member of Congress.

Sounds believable? Not really - who in their right mind wouldn't foresee situations where politicians, of all people, might have several titles over the years. The US Gov't is inept, but it is not stupid.

• One, you can only get 1 pension from being an Employee of the US Gov't - whether elected or appointed
• Two, Members of Congress have the same retirement rules applied to them as every other Federal Government Employee - from White House doorman to POTUS! Same retirement plan (called FERS!)
• Three, those numbers are the full salary numbers. Federal Pensions are based on time-of-service - but can NEVER exceed 80% of your highest 3-year salary average.

So, rather than the $804K/yr in "pension" proposed by the Internet Idiot trying to stir people up, Pelosi will instead be eligible for up-to $164k/yr in "pension" - depending, as it does for everyone else, on how much she's entitled to under the "formula"... the same formula used for ALL US Gov't employees, MoC or otherwise!

Fun fact: your US Government pension is calculated based on years of service, and only starts after 5 years... thus, having never before served in the US Gov't, former President Trump gets NO PENSION (though, he does certainly get other former-President perks - like Secret Service protection and office staff allowances, etc.). Still, if Dumb Donny wanted to work in the Palm Beach Post Office for a year, he'd finally qualify for his Presidential Pension! (Personally, I think he should go to work for the Federal Elections Commission! LOL)

On the other hand, President Biden will, after just 1 term in office, qualify for a full Presidential Pension - based on his 40+ years of additional service to the US Gov't.

PS: Know who else gets up-to $164k/yr in pension? Former Speakers Paul Ryan, John Boehner, Dennis Hastert (in spite of his criminal convictions), & Newt Gingrich! (ALL Republicans!)

@bi4smooth said in Why is everything new being deleted from the "Fan Sites" category?:

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

Everyone: Can a mod just give further insight into why this might be happening.

@bi4smooth : WHY NOT JUST LISTEN TO WHAT I SAY? I'M THE MOD NOW. WHY YOU ASKING ALL THESE QUESTION? SHUT UP.

DMCA take downs are not discretionary. Nor are they something that needs to be "explained"...

What SHOULD happen is that you should stop complaining about them and just enjoy the FREE PORN you still have access to!

For what it's worth: FraternityX, SketchySex, and SlamRush vids (none of which are my taste) are also often very short-lived on here... except for when the uploaders are careful about labeling them... <hint hint>

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

Everyone: Can a mod just give further insight into why this might be happening.

@bi4smooth : WHY NOT JUST LISTEN TO WHAT I SAY? I'M THE MOD NOW. WHY YOU ASKING ALL THESE QUESTION? SHUT UP.

DMCA take downs are not discretionary. Nor are they something that needs to be "explained"...

What SHOULD happen is that you should stop complaining about them and just enjoy the FREE PORN you still have access to!

@sosofly said in Where are the Biden supporters?!:

@raphjd said in Where are the Biden supporters?!:

are still being the DNC panty shield.
I don't give a damned about what MSM is doing, but what you hypocritical liberals are NOT doing on this site now that your guy is in office.
The only ones hammering Biden from the left are far left, and they are the ones that the DNC said were a myth. They are the same ones that had signs saying "even democrats get the bullet" and similar.

So let me get this straight. Because of Facebook, Tucker, OAN, Talk Radio, Trump, and other Wacko's, Angry Parents are not taking the vaccine, and calling mask mandates child abuse. They are putting their hands on school officials nationwide, making other threats and other coordinated actions and this is ok ? This is terrorism. Terrorism is defined as "the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives”

Because of these wack jobs- The NSBA had to ask for help... What are they supposed to do. give in and let covid run wild through the schools? No.. They asked the government for help.. So the government did what a responsible government does.. RESPOND.

The National School Boards Association (NSBA) respectfully asks for federal law enforcement and other assistance to deal with the growing number of threats of violence and acts of intimidation occurring across the nation,' the letter to Biden begins.

The correspondence goes on to mention incidents of 'threats or actual acts of violence' against school staffers, alleging that 'angry mobs' have hindered their ability to hold school board meetings, because of reported outbursts from 'extremist' parents irate over vaccine and mask mandates being pressured upon their students in order for them to go to school.

'As these threats and acts of violence have become more prevalent,' the org asserts in the note, 'NSBA respectfully asks that a joint collaboration among federal law enforcement agencies, state and local law enforcement, and with public school officials be undertaken to focus on these threats.'

It does amaze me that these School Boards are accepting "freedom" as an excuse to allow kids to NOT wear masks in school.

Maybe they'd be OK if we re-zoned our schools... we'll take the ones in the AFFLUENT (yes, mostly-white) neighborhoods with the GOOD teachers and the EXTRA RESOURCES and zone them for VACCINATED students (of all races!)

Then we'll take the ones POOR neighborhoods (yes, mostly non-white) with the revolving-door teaching staffs and FEW resources - and zone them for VAX-FREE students who DO NOT want to be vaccinated and/or wear masks.

THEN their parents CAN be given a choice!

(NOTE for the stupid - you KNOW who you are: This is SARCASM, not a real proposal)