@raphjd said in California decides to MANDATE gender-free toy aisles:
OK, so all of your "whataboutisms" concerning Trump prove you're my bitch, but you don't want your fellow leftists to know.
I don't need any "what-aboutisms" for Trump - YOU are the one who constantly changes the subject when FACTS do not support the Trumpian line...
But I understand... you're bound by your Russian Handlers to support all things Trump... you don't have any leeway in that...
@raphjd said in (CA) Gov Newsome vetoed Cal Grant expansion bill:
The law Newsome vetoed is shit, but a lot of your party supported it. So he did something right, on this single occasion. That doesn't mean he didn't do the right thing on any other law.
I don't read OAN, except on rare occasions when something pops up in one of my feeds.
Since I don't know the article you are talking about, I'll have to assume you got your cliff notes from Joy "I was hacked" Reid.
Let's not forget, it's your people that love 2+2= whatever the fuck you want it to be, or you are a racist.
My people are what used to be called Reagan Republicans.
My people believe in smaller Government
My people believe in DEMOCRACY - you know, the one where the person with the most VOTES wins?
However, I'm not SO PARTISAN that I'll fault a CA Governor who vetoes a bad (liberal) bill! I applaud him for vetoing that shit legislation! The fact that he's a Democrat doesn't mean he can't make a RIGHT decision every once in a while!
You, on the other hand, aren't allowed by your Russian handlers to say anything nice about anyone BUT TRUMP... so I understand how you could be caught between a rock and a hard-place.
@raphjd said in Where are the Biden supporters?!:
Ah, so when you agree with me, you remain silent, but act like a drama queen when you disagree with me.
Clearly, you being a liberal Biden jockstrap, you can't be seen agreeing with me.
Didn't your party tell others to join the RNC to fuck up one of the primaries? AND, can you say "I voted for Biden/Harris" or have you forgotten who you voted for.
As a Democrat, it would be best to speak to your party's intentions. I do find it ironic though, that you clowns repeatedly vote for people that constantly do things you claim to be against, expecting them to change this time.
Let's not forget that it was the DNC that gave us the 3 most homophobic laws the US ever had, as well as Biden's racist 1994 crime bill. You, stupid clowns, support BLM, anti-racism, CRT, and all the other bullshit, and you vote for Biden.
Likewise, all the anti-black shit Kamala pulled as California AG and San Francisco DA, and you losers voted for her.
The solution is to shut your pie holes until you are willing to speak out against the shit the government, et al, is doing to actual people, with actual human rights.
You are wrong, and I've made it clear before... I know it ties your panties into a knot, but I did not vote FOR Biden, I voted AGAINST Trump!
That you cannot tell the difference is clearly a reflection of your Russian influences... 
I've been a registered Republican for 40 years... I am one DEEP ASSED mole!
@raphjd said in AG Garland and conflict of interest:
Yet another topic that you side with libersals.
I know you are an idiotic liberal, but the conflict of interest is a no brainer.
Garland's official stance, as the head of the DOJ, that being opposed to CRT being taught in public schools is "domestic terrorism" while his son-in-law is actively selling CRT shit to public schools.
So simple, liberals are too stupid to get it.
well, I guess we've found yet another topic on which you are clueless as to how "the real world" works...
I'm not surprised, the US and the west have very different rules than Mother Russia...
You'll catch on eventually... keep trying!
@krad3434 said in Why is everything new being deleted from the "Fan Sites" category?:
@2econdspark Thanks I've noticed the deletions too. It really sucks that there is such an aggressive takedown of these here. Studio uploads even stay up for longer.
I hope if one account is issuing this many dmcas they get banned. I've even seen some torrents get 1 star ratings pretty much as they have been uploaded.
Off topic, I know - but I've wondered at that too... some torrents virtually NEVER get a "star" rating, and others seem to have them even before they've been leeched!
Duplicate accounts are banned - but someone gaming the system? I don't know! A curiosity to be sure!
@raphjd said in AG Garland and conflict of interest:
AG Merrick Garland’s Daughter Married to Co-Founder of Education Company Selling Critical Race Theory Resource Material to School Districts
No conflict of interest there, if you're a liberal.
Imagine the shit storm liberals would have had if that was someone from the Trump admin.
If Merrick Garland's daughter's husband shouldn't be selling Critical Race Theory bullshit (and let's forget the topic - shouldn't be selling to local school boards), then Trump's daughter - who was actually on the Government Payroll - shouldn't have been hawking clothes & shoes at the same time either.
Be careful: people in glass houses!
Merrick Garland's daughter's husband shouldn't be selling anything to the Justice Department... or to the Federal Government, for that matter... but to local Governments? I would say he's OK there...
Ethics 101 - clearly a topic you've never taken
@raphjd said in Where are the Biden supporters?!:
No straw man here. You are a pos liberal.
And you are a communist puppet (whether of the Russian or Chinese model, I am unsure! I am equally unsure if you are even aware of the strings!
It's not "new math" but "de-colonialized math" or "anti-racist math". Have you forgotten so soon?
LOL - "Jane, you ignorant slut"
"New math" wasn't describing the new math where they tried to teach new ways of doing long division - it was a generalization of all the anti-math bullshit that's come out - from multiple sides.
Math is math. Numbers don't lie (hence: Trump lost by BIG numbers!). Numbers aren't political. Algebra isn't racist. Calculus isn't Communist. Statistics aren't anti-Democratic. They're all just numbers... the least-political field of knowledge we have today.
And when you were ranting about this months and months ago, I didn't argue with you... why should I? We agreed.
But since I'm your "straw man" for all things more liberal than you, you assumed I thought otherwise.
Typical for you: you got your facts wrong. LOL
You want me to ignore all these kinds of things, but get butt hurt over some stupid law about toy aisles.
Actually, I think MOST people who read my posts would agree that they are TOO LONG already... so, sticking to one topic at a time is likely a GOOD strategy for me... I'll stick to it, thanks.
You give no fucks about educating young people, but you screech like a crack whore in church when a business' "human rights" are tickled, by your own fucking party.
I care a LOT about how my children are educated - which is why I support teaching children about problem solving and critical thinking, and not just about "what viewpoints-as-facts are in-vogue today" or "what answer are they looking for"...
Unlike folks like you, I support the idea of things like High School classes in "comparative world religions" - being taught by believers of ANY one of those religions (so long as NONE - not even paganism or Scientology - are ridiculed. The teacher MAY declare his/her own beliefs, but NOT that those are superior to the beliefs of others - that's the whole point of such a class!)
Indeed, my daughter in college got a nice compliment from her Ethics professor the other day. He wrote a test question that was worded as a "what's YOUR opinion" when it meant to be "what is the school's stance" about an Ethics situation. She knew that the question, having been worded that way, would have been quite unusual - but also that this class had been quite unusual - so she wrote a prelude: explaining that the question was vague and she could immediately see 2 approaches to answering the question... then she wrote 2 quick (short) replies - 1 for each possible interpretation of the question's real meaning, and added a suffix that said she didn't have time for more detail because she essentially had to answer the question twice!
You have never posted about the shit your party is doing, but you will jump in to slag me off for posting about it, as well as telling me to ignore it, so I can focus on some business's non-existent "human rights".
You silly *twit - is my party the Republican one (the one I've belonged to - as a voter - for 40 years), or the Democrat one you keep trying to align me with since I'm not a Trumpite...
As I said, the law you are crying about is idiotic, but that is what you people (liberals) demanded. Maybe not you specifically, but you liberals overall.
I don't think MOST Democrats are in favor of this kind of Government Overreach... I think it will get overturned in courts, or by a later Legislature... I hope, anyway.
No, the REASON I brought up this idiotic law was to eventually point to its ROOT CAUSE: California is an echo-chamber of liberal, leftist, social crusaders. This is the kind of law that is created in an echo-chamber environment. It's wrong for leftists, and it's wrong for Conservatives too!
We get things RIGHT when we take the best intentions of the far left and the far right and find common ground.
This ain't that!
I have a solution for you, just call it "anti-sexist/racist/trans toy aisles" and be happy with your win.
Sorry: the solution is to keep Government out of the aisles entirely! See, here we are at a fundamental difference:
My way is short, simple, and easy to explain.
Your way is unique to every individual who tries to implement it, and impossible to justify...
@raphjd said in (CA) Gov Newsome vetoed Cal Grant expansion bill:
Something happened to the previous post that is preventing me from adding more to it.
ANyway, you dumb ass, I am an American (and UK national) so what happens in the US is my business.
It's, even more, my business since I still pay US taxes.
So fuck off and go back to snortching Pelosi's crusty old vag.
Actually, you have your own post wrong... THIS thread stared out with you confusedly DECRYING the fact that Cal Gov Newsome actually VETOED a bill you didn't support. And this somehow made him even WORSE!
The NY "thread" was a rabbit-hole of your own making, and it didn't take long to find the OAN story that was your source - and to see the flaws in it.... the same flaws I pointed out....
Your excuse here (that a NY politician said something stupid - like THAT'S rare!) is like the 1st grader who complains that when he added 2 + 2 and got 5 - his "5" was printed PERFECTLY, so he should get some credit for that!
Pathetic...
@raphjd said in California decides to MANDATE gender-free toy aisles:
While this is completely idiotic (typical DNC), why do you care about this but not the other shit Newsome is doing in California?
I know you believe that businesses have human rights, but people don't unless the DNC says they do.
It's funny how you worship Fauci, Biden, Pelosi, etc, etc, etc, etc and their nanny state demands on us mere humans, but you are against it when it violates a business' "human rights".
It's people like you that will cause the dystopian future to come true.
ROFL - I take it from your "100% what-aboutism" response that you generally agree with me here... but, you just can't bring yourself to say so...
You are so predictable.... Tell Comrade Putin he should keep you! You're totally transparent and we love to watch you as his puppet!
@raphjd said in Arizona Audit report presentation, Cyber Ninjas share their results of election audit:
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?!:
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'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:
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?
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:
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:
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?:
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:
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...
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?!:
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