@raphjd said in OIC soft on animal abuse:

@bi4smooth

I do not support hitting animals

But you keep defending and downplaying it.

Humans have been doing a lot of things for millennia, does that make those ok too?

If you mean to ask: Do you dislike hitting animals enough to make shit up about the IOC and the German coach accused of hitting a horse?

No

I do dislike the fact that animals are being abused - still - in 2021, but not so much that I'd overlook my own, personal, moral code (about lying and misrepresenting things) to stop it.

Rather, I have faith that real data - not hyper-sensationalized, and not factually invalid data - as well as a real sense of moral outrage - are sufficient to help put a stop to it.

Indeed, I believe that using false and/or or grossly exaggerated information actually hurts the cause: because it gives real and valid "ammunition" to the perpetrators to deny their actions!

@raphjd said in OIC soft on animal abuse:

@bi4smooth

The reports I have read was that the crop thing was on Friday with a different team member.

I have not heard of other incidents - from the same coach?

@raphjd said in Fact-checkers are fake news:

@bi4smooth

BTW, you still refuse to discuss the original topic; Fact-checkers are fake news.

For some reason, you want to derail it so we don't talk about fake as fuck fact-checkers.

It's not just the douche bags on FB, but everywhere.

I'll discuss the Facebook fact checkers when you explain why the price of Chinese rice in China is higher than it is in the US.

Both questions are equally germane. (or irrelevant)...

@raphjd said in OIC soft on animal abuse:

@bi4smooth

I used to own a horse. I even have the tattoo of him on my arm. I never used a whip or crop.

The crop incident was on Friday and the punch was on Saturday.

I'm not sure why you are trying to justify the abuse.

The IOC does have the right to punish people. It's not just up to the governing body of that particular sport.

If you want, we can go your way and say that the UIPM is weak on animal abuse.

Ah, the "but the punch didn't cause injury" defense. Do you know how many shitty people use that defense in court?

To be clear, you supporting punching animals, as long as there are no visible injuries.

You have problems with reading comprehension, don't you?

So, back to the Olympics: Let me say ahead of time that I do not agree with what the coach did, but your characterization here - without details - is more inflammatory than it deserves to be... and your castigation of the IOC (or even Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee) is misplaced.

Your owning a horse and never using a whip or a crop is an indication only that you never trained your horse in equine competition. I won't say I agree with the use of a crop (a whip would be virtually unheard of!), but again, it isn't used the way you are describing it. (Try making your argument against a REAL issue, and not a FAKE NEWS version of that issue!)

I also have a swimming pool, but I don't own a speedo bathing suit - because I don't race in my pool.

FWIW: The "crop incident" happened AFTER the "punch" incident - the rider in question wasn't on or near a horse the day before. (facts!)... watch the damned video - you can see the rider start to hit the horse with her riding crop AFTER being screamed at by her coach to do so, and AFTER her coach punched the hind quarter of the horse!

You are delusional. The IOC does NOT have the jurisdiction to penalize a non-athlete at the competition. They COULD HAVE (but WOULDN'T HAVE) overruled the UIPM with regards to the "athlete", but not the coach.

Your comment that the UIPM "went soft" on the coach is also rife with disinformation. The "black card" issued to the coach is the MAXIMUM penalty they could have applied AT THE COMPETITION. Further, there is room for further investigation later - where the "accused" will be given a chance to "defend themselves" - something your fascist-leaning ways may not be accustomed to called "due process".

And, I will reiterate that your original claim that there was a 1-day suspension of the coach is hogwash and totally false. She was issued a black-card - expelling her from the competition - the maximum penalty allowed under the rules. Of course, in your more fascist-leaning ways, the firing squad option was just not available.

Finally, WRT the "damage" done to the horse by the "punch" - watch the damned video. [mike drop].
I do not support hitting animals - but I also understand that animals in this particular environment are currently controlled by striking them with a riding crop... something humans have been doing to horses for millennia. That doesn't mean it shouldn't end, but tell me - do you really think kicking your heels into the side of your horse wasn't uncomfortable?

@raphjd said in Fauci put flies that laid maggots in Beagle's brains.:

@hubrys

Do you mean like how the people kept lying to Trump about things; ie military forces in various countries?

They bragged about it.

All Hail the Infallible One!
Sieg Heil!
The election was stolen!
Sieg Heil!

@raphjd said in Fauci put flies that laid maggots in Beagle's brains.:

@bi4smooth

PETA is shit, at best.

We've talked about them before.

They killed more animals in their shelters than anyone else, based on the Virginia records. Virginia has the strictest animal shelter records requirements in the US.

Fauci does not have to actually do any research himself, just authorize it, to be guilty.

We already know Fauci's mentality, with "GOF research is worth a global pandemic or 2".

We also know that he loves GOF so much that after it was banned in the US, he paid Bill Gate's Eco-Health to do it in China to skirt the US ban.

He lied to Rand Paul over the official definition of GOF, in the Senate hearing. The definition came directly from the NIH and it matched perfectly what GOF is.

You know as much about NIH definitions as Rand Paul... an ophthalmologist who seems to think that "any Dr is an expert Dr!'

@raphjd said in Fact-checkers are fake news:

@bi4smooth

Ok, let's start off with your biggest lie in your post. You love freedom when it works against conservatives. You hate freedom when it comes to going against the liberal hivemind, regardless of the topic.

"Big tech" has special rights under Section 230, that no one else has. They get to play publisher and platform, whichever suits them at any particular moment.

BTW, I see that you ignored the entire point of my post, that "fact-checkers" are full of shit, partisan hacks

I am not the straw-man you're looking for, you Fascist, NAZI, Trumpite!

I even gave examples of how other's FREEDOM goes against my personal beliefs, but are protected - and that I respect their rights!

Your un-proven and factless claim that I do not support similar freedoms for all are baseless and false. Fascist Pig!

I didn't ignore your complaint about fact-checkers: I rendered it moot.

The truth, or lack thereof, of your post does not matter in a legal sense... Facebook has the right to delete your entire account, much less a single post, simply because they learned... that you use non-flushable wipes to clean the makeup off of your pimply ass, and flush them anyway! (Or any other ridiculous reason you care to come up with!)

FYI: Section 230 protects my TINY site every bit as much as it protects Twitter and Facebook (and Parler, Telegram, etc)... We (including Parler & Facebook) are not publishers:

• A Publisher has control over content BEFORE it is published.
• A Publisher pays Editors to control what gets covered and what does not.

Take away Section 230, and you completely obliterate the likes of Parler, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Telegram, YouTube and so on... EVERY site that allows users to post content WITHOUT editorial filtering - including sites that allow user COMMENTS! All content would have to go thru a "moderation and editing" process, or else the company would be at risk of being sued for the content some 3rd party made.

I will say this: I agree that Social Media in general is causing as much harm as it is good... and most of the harm comes from so-called anonymous posting.

IMHO, if you want to reform Social Media (including Parler, Telegram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc), you need to start by removing the ability to post anonymously. That doesn't mean your personal info needs to be accessible to the PUBLIC at all times, but the platforms could be required to have proof or reliable identity information for each user, and when properly subpoenaed, they should be required to "give up" who made a particular post... And if the identity information proved to be false or invalid, the site could be held responsible - in lieu of the end user.

So when someone "anonymously" says Trump should be assassinated, the Secret Service actually CAN get a real name to follow up with! And when someone claims Google is run by Nazis, the company CAN pursue a defamation lawsuit against them!

Not against some "anonymous user #224", but against Joe User, of 1234 Main St, Anytown, USA... and monetary damages can be achieved for illegal behavior. And Criminal Behavior can be punished with criminal prosecutions.

Note that this would necessarily ALSO result in certain kinds of "segregation"... citizens of Iran, for example, might not be allowed to post on topics relating the US elections - because the status of their location would make legal challenges to their behavior impossible. But, that would be up to the site: just remember... in this case (which is not the way it is now): if the user cannot be prosecuted, the site can!

@manhandler said in Voter Suppression - a new twist:

@bi4smooth Oh. Right. Right. The CHIEF PATHOLOGIST in GERMANY, says that over 1/3rd of the deaths experienced in recent days and weeks are occurring in the VACCINATED. The VACCINATED are dying. And you act like you're superior to the CHIEF PATHOLOGIST in GERMANY. Shut your mouth! You don't know what you're talking about! You're a liar. Go to hell. And stick that experimental jab up your ass you fucking liar! Like that guy is just making up numbers... Seriously!? You're so delusional at this point it's just pathetic. You were WRONG. Now you know...

You lunatic-fringe moron....

According to your own statistics, people in Germany that are vaccinated are not dying BECAUSE OF the COVID-19 vaccine, but rather IN SPITE OF the vaccine... and the medical authorities are saying that IN SUPPORT OF asking people to mask-up again!

I repeat: your intelligence (and ability to read and comprehend what you read) approaches that of a 1st Grader...

Fun with Dick & Jane:
See Dick run... See Jane run... how many people are running in the picture?
No, the picture with just 2 people in it, both of whom are running... how many people are running in the picture?

Oh, nevermind....

@manhandler said in Fauci put flies that laid maggots in Beagle's brains.:

@bi4smooth You are Atrocious. Absurd. And Ridiculous. This is INHUMANE. Don't act like a lawyer for Fauci. That's EXACTLY what you're doing here. He knew EXACTLY what was going on. He's the DIRECTOR. Ok? Do you not fucking get that? He DIRECTS it.

Once again, you've proven your inability to read:

Yeah, we'll have to wait and see on that one...

If accurate (and that is - given your track record - highly debatable) PETA will make quite a stink about it - publicly (they're not easily silenced!).

Yeah, we'll have to wait and see on that one...

@manhandler said in Fauci put flies that laid maggots in Beagle's brains.:

What a piece of trash that guy Fauci is. Through FOIA requests, it was revealed that Fauci was given half a million dollars to put flies that were highly infectious to humans into the nostrils of 28 Beagles, where for 3 months, they laid eggs that grew maggots, and the flies devoured their flesh, and the maggots devoured their brains, they yelped out in pain, and then they were exterminated to collect their blood. PETA should be on this. We will see. This is pure evil. How can you trust someone like that? Despicable nasty filth.

Yeah, we'll have to wait and see on that one...

If accurate (and that is - given your track record - highly debatable) PETA will make quite a stink about it - publicly (they're not easily silenced!).

Yeah, we'll have to wait and see on that one...

But I will also point out (once again) that Fauci is the DIRECTOR of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH - and in that role, I seriously doubt that he himself has sufficient time to do any actual research or experimentation.

This is just as absurd as the left-wing-nutjobs (AOC anyone?) who made it seem like Trump himself ordered, supervised, and personally assisted in separating children from their parents at the Southern border in 2020... yeah... he took time off from "being President" to personally process some illegal immigrants... just, so, you know, he could get his hands dirty... YEAH! THAT'S THE TICKET!

Fauci hasn't personally conducted research or run medical experiments in, I'm guessing here: about 30 years (since he's been the Director of NIAID since 1984 - He certainly outlived the President (Reagan) who appointed him!)...

Just sayin... sometimes you have to take reports like these and put them to the "smell test"... (e.g.: does it even SEEM possible or plausible, or do you just wish it was true?)

@manhandler said in Voter Suppression - a new twist:

@bi4smooth No, you're an idiot. These are NUMBERS. By NATIONS. Official. You cannot answer. All you can say is, "you're an idiot." Germany says over 1/3rd of it's deaths are from VACCINATED people. Period. To ignore that means you are a shill. That's all.

The idiocy isn't from the numbers... (which I do not accept as factual)... nah, you're entitled to accept other people's made-up "facts"... and your believing them doesn't make you an idiot (gullible, perhaps, but not necessarily stupid...)

No, the proof of your idiocy comes from your absurd conclusion that they're actually dying of the vaccine.

@raphjd said in Fact-checkers are fake news:

So called "fact-checkers" are dirty as fuck.

I was fact checked over something I posted on FB. It was decided that I was posting false info.

Here's the situation;

I posted an official statement from the Arizona Senate about the election audit of Maricopa County.

Maricopa County, without proof, said nah-uh.

Instead of saying it was disputed, they claimed that the Arizona Senate was lying. Case closed. Maricopa County, without proof, is telling the truth.

Shit like this constantly happens in favor of the liberal narrative.

Tim Pool has done several videos on how fact-checkers do this, as well as other dirty as fuck tactics.

You hate it when I point this out, but freedom is a double-edged sword!

Facebook isn't a news site - and they can make all the rules they want about the content they'll let you put on their site! It's not a Government-run site, it's Zuckerburg's site! The fact that it's popular doesn't change the "rules" (which are: it's a privately-held website, free under the 1st Amendment to make whatever rules it wants! And to enforce them however it sees fit! ... at least when the enforcement is limited to their site... just covering my ass for some hyperbolic, out-of-left-field, wildly misplaced and unrelated "what-about" response you'll have...)

You like to say I support "Big Tech" - but that's not true... I support freedom! And that includes your (actually, it's Mike Lindell's - or, the My Pillow guy's) right to claim that 24,000 votes in a single county in Iowa were changed by Chinese hackers in 2020.

The problems with his claims are numerous, but let's start here:

• There are only 17,000 registered voters in that county, and there were only about 12,000 votes cast in the 2020 elections there.
• The only electronic balloting done in that county is done by inserting the ballot into a machine that reads it, then deposits it into a locked container. The ballots themselves are hand-marked on paper ballots.
• The machines in question are not ever, and are incapable of being, connected to the Internet.
• The manual recount - done 3 times at the request of different entities - involved human beings examining the paper ballots themselves, and came up with ZERO discrepancies. Not a single mis-read vote (Mind you, in election terms, 12,000 votes is a minuscule sample-size... a certain ERROR rate is to be expected, but the key to using the electronic counters is that the error rate is significantly lower than the HUMAN error rate!)

So the claim is factually bereft of even a hit or whiff of truthfulness - but he's been on CNN making those claims (why he agreed to an interview with CNN is beyond me... dumb move on his part!), and it is his right to self-publish those baseless claims anywhere that will let him!

However, the folks at CNN would have been within their rights to have censored his baseless claims, and even to have decided, editorially, not to run the interview at all... Though, in this case, they did run the interview - without editing his ridiculous claims.

I am certain that Fox News, as well as Gab, MeWe, Telegram, and Parler, have edited their sites for content they found "unbecoming" of their "brand" as well! (And if they haven't so be it - and good for them! But, it is within their rights to do so! And that is the point!)

I am a true believer in freedom... even when it is not in my favor. But as the owner of a small business (with an Internet presence), I do not want the Government telling me - beyond some wide, broad-brush strokes, like: not suborning hatred, violence, or the overthrow of the Government itself - how to run my business (or my Internet site). And I happen to think that the same goes for other non-Governmental Internet sites - big & small - as well!

Where I DO support Government Regulation is realm of the the ISP's - especially in areas where there is only 1 (or 2) provider(s). In most US jurisdictions, ISPs enjoy a Government-subsidized and Government-created monopoly on being an ISP for high-speed Internet.... and "regulated monopolies" need to be regulated! (My ISP should not be allowed to block my connection to GT.ru, nor to throttle my torrent client connections!)

Create an "open and free" marketplace for ISPs (as exists in many other countries), and the problem goes away... people like me can simply choose an ISP that doesn't do the things I object to! But, as you've heard me quote before: 'This ain't that'

@manhandler said in Voter Suppression - a new twist:

@bi4smooth

Today Germany's Chief Pathologist reported that 30-40% of the nation's deaths are occurring in the vaccinated. That's 30-40% of people dying in Germany right now, are dying FROM the vaccination, not heart disease, not TB, not cancer, not obesity... over 1/3rd of the nation's deaths are happening in the Vaccinated. So we can add Germany to the list. Are you getting nervous yet?

https://www.newswars.com/sunday-live-democrats-prepare-to-lock-down-america-while-they-party-at-obama-super-spreader-event/

Also in the news today, a former Pfizer employee who worked with the executives in the company quit, and came out with documents showing that the vaccine is in fact a bioweapon. You don't know any of this stuff because you're not watching the real news.

https://banned.video/watch?id=610b15ec4b401c2c26621b15

You. Don't. Know. What. You. Are. Talking. About.

And yes, the Democrats are making it political. They want a permanent lockdown, and a passport so they can tell you that if you don't get their deadly vaccine, you don't get to buy or sell, you don't even get to get on the bus. That is identical to the Mark of the Beast. Makes sense, as Bill Gates' vaccine patent #060606 hooks you up to the grid through 5g. It's not a conspiracy, it's an actual patent. Wake up! Stop being a dummy. We're not taking the jab. When it has a 99.7-9% survival rate. It's stupid! There is no reason to worry about "Covid" (the common cold).

You're an idiot. Plain and simple.
Darwin? Over here please!

@flozen said in OIC soft on animal abuse:

@raphjd Punching a horse -- what an awful thing to do -- they should have booked that coach a flight home the next morning.

I'm not a horse owner and haven't spent much time around them, but I was invited to the Belmont Stakes this year and I enjoyed everything -- except the whipping of the horses, particularly down the home stretch.

Certainly it must hurt to some degree. If they prohibited whipping, wouldn't all riders still have an equal chance? It would probably mean fewer new time records, I could easily live with that.

The whipping -- it would be hard to change something that's been part of that sporting culture for centuries. But for comparison, the much worse cruelty of bullfighting is being slowly wiped off the planet, so these positive changes can be realized.

I agree with both of you that animal cruelty should have no place in "SPORT" - but as someone who has ridden horses (tho certainly not in any kind of competition), I can say that there are legitimate uses for the riding crop (it's more of a flexible stick than a whip)... and within those limits, there is virtually never any injury to the horse.

Skipping ahead: sadly, as much as I'd like to agree with @flozen that Spanish-Style Bull-Fighting is "slowly being wiped off the planet", it is just not the case - and this is far from the first time the "sport" (and I use the term lightly and hesitatingly) has come under fire. (See ancient Popes & Kings in Iberia!) Unlike horse-racing, rodeo, or Olympic modern pentathlon: the bull virtually never survives, and neither is its death in anything even approaching a humane manner.

So, back to the Olympics: Let me say ahead of time that I do not agree with what the coach did, but your characterization here - without details - is more inflammatory than it deserves to be... and your castigation of the IOC (or even Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee) is misplaced.

The sport in question here is "Modern Pentathlon" - and in this event, the horse and rider are literally introduced to each other just prior to the event. The point of the event is for the human contestant to bond with the new* horse, and complete a set of tasks in the ring.

The German rider in question here was leading in the event up to this moment, the last of 10 parts... but the horse she drew just wasn't having it! The rider was (clearly visible in the video) crying badly, and that was also upsetting the horse (making a failing situation worse, and making a horse "in trouble" literally fearful of its surroundings.

In the part of the video I saw on YouTube (from a German source, not the Twitter link above, although it is also in German), the crying rider was having GREAT difficulty controlling the horse... clearly sobbing, she was kicking and otherwise TRYING to "subdue" the upset horse. In a few seconds, it (the horse) came over to the edge of the arena - where the coach was screaming at her (the rider) to strike the horse HARD - and then, she (the coach) reached over the fence and "punched" the horse on the hind quarter. Not particularly hard, but enough to spook the horse even more.

If you know anything about horses, you have to know that at that point, the chances of that horse, in that moment, coming under full-control of that rider... was nil. Absolute nil. Had the person who struck the horse been the actual trainer or owner of the horse in question, the outcome might have been different: horses WANT to please their humans! But these two (rider and coach) were both new to the horse, and their approach/reaction by this point was just doomed.

Still, both the coach and the rider were literally watching their Olympic dreams go up in smoke - in their minds, because of this horse (side note, though not altogether germane: the horse, named Saint Boy, had reacted similarly to another rider the day before... so, there is something to be said about their Olympic Dreams being lost to the "luck of the draw"...)

Nevertheless, the coach got in trouble for many infractions:

• encouraging the rider to over-use the crop on the horse
• reaching into the arena to interfere with the horse or rider during the "ride"
• touching the horse (much less hitting it) during the "ride"

The German coach was expelled from the Tokyo Olympics for her violations - not by the IOC (because that's not how the Olympics works!), but by the UIPM - the world governing body for the sport of Modern Pentathlon.

It is the role of each sport's international governing body to "police" their events and their participants - and the UIPM did so, quickly and firmly - issuing what the sport calls a "black card" to the coach - expelling her from the entire competition, and subjecting her to "further review" by the sport aftweward.

Additionally, world-wide media outlets have been pretty tough on both the coach and the rider... who, unsurprisingly, failed to medal in spite of her lead up to that point.

So, if you watch the video, the horse was not "abused" by the "punch" of the coach, so much as by the rider and circumstances overall. It was a bad situation made worse by the humans to be sure, but the horse was not injured by the "punch" - and it clearly wasn't the intent of the coach to injure the horse - though, as someone "just a little" familiar with horses, I could legitimately ask "what was she thinking?"...

And, to also be clear: I do not support the actions of the humans in this incident... but, this is not what the original posting represented itself to be, and the blaming of the IOC (which actually does not have jurisdiction) is just plain wrong.

@raphjd said in Voter Suppression - a new twist:

@bi4smooth

Umm, it was the WHO and China that played politics. Maybe you were too busy in Chinatown with Pelosi back then.

It's still strange that you claim to be a libertarian, yet you demand hivemind crap.

LOL - hivemind is what you propose, with your deep state conspiracies! (As-if all 2.2 million Federal Employees are united in their opposition to your wacky ideas! The truth is, there are 2.2 million unique minds in the US Federal Employment database... and about the same ratio are Democrat/Republican as the nation is divided as a whole.)

If actual Governments (of all kinds) were only HALF as competent as you propose the deep state is, there would be no hunger in this world - and no freedom (Governments - of all kinds, even Democracies - are tools to control people).

In the REAL WORLD Governments are inherently, and incurably incompetent. To find a Government that is not, is to find a Government so small as to be insignificant.

Does that mean we shouldn't expect more? no... just that we shouldn't be surprised when Governments do dumb things...

And, more importantly, while not always the case, certainly it is usually the case that when Governments do dumb things, it's due to incompetence and mismanagement, not conspiracies....

@raphjd said in YouTube suspends Sky News Australia:

@bi4smooth

You are a liberal because you worship liberal policies.

As always, you are high as hell on Pelosi's panty fumes.

And you are a fascist, nazi trumpite because you think He is all-but-infallible, should rule with absolute authority, and others who disagree should be "canceled" (even jailed!)....

@raphjd said in CDC now says Vaccinated are the ones spreading the new Delta variant.:

@bi4smooth

Fauci is a proven liar.

The WHO, CDC, and NIH are all purely political.

I can't get my hand fixed, because of C-19, despite my area having very low numbers. No matter how much pain I am in, the NHS says I need to fuck off because of C-19. Our local hospital is far from overflowing with C-19 patients, but people are being told that we need to fuck off until C-19 is over and even then it will take "many, many years" until things get back on track.

The temporary "Nightengale hospitals" were empty and people were arrested and prosecuted for videoing them showing they were empty, despite government claims of how full they were.

Even the Mayo Clinic is saying that getting the vaccine will prevent you from getting C-19. Clearly, it's a blatant lie.

The WHO isn't preventing you from getting your "hand fixed" - that's the British NHS, and that's a totally different argument. Perhaps the United (really? ask Scotland about that) Kingdom should look to their former colonies for better plans (both Canada and AU do it better)

As for there being pop-up hospitals that are empty, you shouldn't confuse incompetence and mismanagement with a conspiracy to mis-inform.

As for the Mayo Clinic, I can say with certainty (because my daughter is a patient) that they are not claiming that the COVID-19 vaccines prevent the COVID-19 virus - they ARE saying that the COVID-19 vaccines prevent serious illness from the COVID-19 virus.

I posted elsewhere about this: only a complete moron would believe that a vaccine could prevent the virus from getting into your body... there is no "barrier", just an immune system (your immune system) that is pre-prepared to fight the virus when it gets inside you.

The same as every other vaccine discovered by mankind

This is also why vaccines do not help protect immune-compromized people (like many cancer patients): they have either no immune system, or one not strong enough to make the vaccine effective.

So for all you anti-vaxxers in South Carolina (US), my aunt's leukemia-fighting husband (I don't consider him an uncle - I barely know him) has a message for you: F--K YOU and Thanks for nothing! He's been on "lockdown" for what will far-too-soon be a second year now, thanks the the recurring waves of COVID-19, and his inability to get a vaccine that would work for his immune system (or what's left of it). He has 2 new grandchildren he has only seen by video, and fears he will never EVER see in person....

yeah, this isn't always a macro-health issue, sometimes it gets rather personal...

@raphjd said in Voter Suppression - a new twist:

@bi4smooth

Umm, your party has made it political.

Mayor Beetlejuice is "kicking it" with celebs, unmasked while demanding that everyone else wear masks. Well, unless they want to riot and loot under the banner of BLM and Antifa, that is. If they want to peacefully protest against the mask mandates and lockdowns, your beloved police get out the heavy gear to crush the dissent.

DNC mayors, Govs, etc across the country are doing the same kinds of shit. DC's mayor did that massive unmasked wedding.

Your queen bee, Pelosi, while screeching about lockdowns and mask mandates sneaks off to get her hair done. Once caught, she claims she was tricked by the salon into doing it and she is 3rd in line to run the country.

Rules for thee, but not for me.

Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, Durbin, and countless other Dems have been photoed/videoed wearing the World Economic Forum's "Build Back Better" lapel pin. They have even made speeches in front of the BBB banner.

You see similar things across Europe, as well.

Covid-19 is purely political across the globe.

As a Fascist, NAZI, Trumpite, you have a predictably infantile knowledge about parts of the world that are not English-speaking! (For the record: I am no more a Democrat than you are a NAZI - but so long as we're slinging "extremist" labels...)

To be clear: The US is the origin of the politicization of modern medicine & more importantly public health. That "poison" has affected other countries - but mostly (though, certainly not limited to) English-speaking ones.

But many countries have avoided this poison: S. Korea, Japan (trying to avoid the Communist/Milary-controlled governments here - that's not fair: they don't fight against the Gov't because doing so is usually lethal), New Zealand, large swaths of Africa, and most of Northern & Eastern Europe - all have no significant political in-fighting about vaccines (except getting them faster) or masks.

We (Americans) are the stupid ones making this a political thing

And we are infecting the rest of the world with our stupidity...

So I'll say it again:

• Wear masks, or don't...
• Get a vaccine, or don't...
• either way, you are participating in a Darwin-esque change (edit) to the Human Genome... and removing the genes of the incredibly gullible and otherwise stupid from the Human Genome shouldn't be considered all bad...

@raphjd said in YouTube suspends Sky News Australia:

@bi4smooth

Trump is not the first Repub that I voted for. Sorry to burst your fake Repub bubble.

I voted for Repubs if they weren't homophobes. I never voted for a homophobe. I voted for Repubs as my US Rep.

Just because I don't like scumbag warhawks, doesn't make me a liberal. Hell, you and Peolsi are warhawks. Maybe you should start the Warhawks Swampies political party and see how many from both parties join.

Does your brother drink the DNC Koolaide, like you, that Honest Joe is the "good" guy?

OH! So, you can choose to vote non-Republican and still consider yourself a Republican, but if I choose to vote non-Trump, I can no longer be a Republican...

As long as I understand the rules.

As a Fascist, NAZI, Trumpite - I should have expected nothing less.

Aside: Quick question: in the 80's, 90's and 2000's, the Dems all claimed we (Republicans) were the warhawks (or worse, war-mongers!)... now it's our turn? Your warhawk claims against non-Trumpites are historically and factually ignorant.

Finally, as I made clear in my earlier post: my brother is an anarchist. But to clarify for you even more: if Biden was "creating havoc and chaos" and making all the "corrupt politicians pull their hair out", then my brother would be for him. Actually, he (my brother) was quite disappointed in Trump: he thought he'd "sold out" in the end... that Trump had "started being just another corrupt politician" by the end of the 2020 campaign. He (my brother) chose not to vote in 2020 (like he used to do, before 2016). Who knows how many others like him there are...

@raphjd said in YouTube suspends Sky News Australia:

I have noticed that our resident fake conservative has derailed this conversation in order to protect his beloved "big tech" from being criticized for being politically biased.

The topic, he doesn't want us talking about, is that YouTube suspended Sky News Australia for posting factual news, at the time of posting, but has now changed according to the WHO, CDC, and whatnot.

YouTube has not done this with liberal outlets that posted the same stuff.

So, why is SNA guilty of spreading false information, the same information that liberal outlets posted at the time, but the liberal outlets are not equally guilty?

SNA posted the "correct" info as the "facts" changed, just like liberal media outlets.

Typical liberal hypocrisy.

As a Fascist, Nazi, Trumpite, you should know by now that I am not the straw-man you're looking for...

I know this will be a shock to our outside readers, but to make sure it is clear:

I, personally, have no role in the decision-making in Google-owned YouTube

With that out of the way, let's look at the facts:

• Sky News Australia was not banned from YouTube. What really happened is that one channel of the network was suspended from YouTube for one week for claiming that COVID-19 in Australia "was not serious" and that "lockdowns have not worked."

NOTE: It's hard to find reliable, factual sources for the exact content of the video(s) that triggered the action (called a "strike" by YouTube - it takes 3 strikes in a 90-day period to get you actually banned!)

This would be the equivalent of YouTube temporarily blocking a YouTube re-broadcast of Tucker Carlson (sorry, I'm just picking on him because I know it will inflame @raphjd LOL) for a week.

Sky News Australia is a cable news channel (owned by the same parent company as Fox News in the US, and closely affiliated with the British Sky News network - all Murdoch-family owned outlets).

Losing access to YouTube is far from "canceling" the channel... they still have a small handful of cable-tv (and because things are different in Australia) over-the-air viewers... (he said sarcastically)...

IMHO, YouTube is treating this as a public-health issue, not a free-speech or political one. (Akin to the traditional: yelling FIRE in a crowded theater is illegal because of the extreme danger to public health, not because of a desire to stifle speech about rapid, incandescent, oxidation.)

What's more, by treating Sky News Australia the same as the guy in his garage claiming that "the vaccines are re-programming your DNA so that the deep-state can read your thoughts" - is far less hypocritical than ignoring it - because it's a large news outlet - would have been.