I feel confident that Don, Jr saying the TX Governor was a Democrat (if he DID say it) isn't a really big thing... we all mis-speak at times! His reputation will not be defined by it. His political future won't be staked on it. His next paycheck (nor anyone else's) won't be affected by it.
Just as I'm sure the Rep. from Colorado who decried ALL amendments to the Constitution will recover from her gaff...
A lie is a lie is the moral equivalent to saying that speeding is murder.
But also there's this: a lie has to be intentionally wrong. Being wrong doesn't make it a lie! To BE a lie, you have to have KNOWN it was a lie when you said it.
And again, I'm not a Liberal, though I will admit that as HARD-RIGHT as you are, Ronald Reagan would seem a liberal from your viewpoint! (And I will also say that there's nothing wrong with BEING a Liberal - it's not that they're always wrong, it's just that their pie-in-the-sky-ideals aren't achievable - usually on many levels!)
just as YOU are not always wrong - you're usually just so hyperbolic in your presentation! Your constant level-of-outrage makes it impossible for you to ever show ACTUAL outrage if/when it occurs. It'll get mixed in with the exaggerated, undeserved outrageous material...
Many torrents that are heavily seeded are "saturated" - that is, there are tons of seeders, but few leechers.
To get upload credits (not points), you need to be seeding torrents that people are actually downloading!
But keep seeding those "dying" (leecher-less) files! You get POINTS just for making them available.. 600 points = 10 GB of upload credit!
Look at some of the NEWEST posts - they typically get the most action!
@raphjd said in Twitter, itself, spreads lies:
Social media titans claim to value the truth but have no problem lying when it suits them.
Says Breitbart? A "news" source as reliable as the "People's Daily" in China!
The point (and the Section 230 protections) about social media policing itself of lies and incitement posts isn't that they stop them before they're published... its that they stop them once discovered.
But there is a world of difference between the lie that "Trump won the election, it was stolen, and you should rise up in arms to defend his presidency" vs. "Trump Jr. is so clueless, he thought the Texas Governor was a Dem"...
Now if the trending articles were "Trump, Jr is so dumb we should hunt him down and euthanize him" -- THAT would be stopped. And rightly so.
Its the incitement to violence, and the danger to society part that you're missing.
If Donald, Jr said it (I don't really care if he did or did not - it is of no real consequence: Donald, Jr doesn't hold public office, and his saying it does not make, or otherwise imperil the office of the Governor of Texas - who is one of 4 big-state governors with their dicks' in a grinder right now: New York is the biggest dumpster-fire, followed by Texas, then CA, and then FL - where our dumb-as-a-box-of-rocks Governor not only allowed COVID-19 vaccines to be re-routed to wealthier ZIP codes, but when the local officials complained, he threatened to take away ALL of their COVID-19 allocation! Has the man NEVER heard of optics? Shit! He's gotta run for re-election in 2022!)
But back to the topic here:
You can still go on Twitter and suggest your ex-boyfriend's new beau did kitty porn (sic) and has equine syphilis - without proof - so long as you don't suggest the Proud Boys arm up and take him out!
@anythingold said in Biden's plan for unity, picks vile Neera Tanden:
@raphjd By the the end of four years, Joe/Kuala & Fuck Face Cuomo will destroy this country so bad, it will NOT be recognizable. Even if Trump wins in 2024, it would take an act of god to repair this country. I hate all of those mutherf******.
That's what the Dems said about Trump / McConnell / Paul Ryan in early 2017!
While I'm not happy about being totally on the outs just 4-years later (thank's Trump! WINNING! Indeed! If that's your definition of winning, I will admit... I tired of it, just as you predicted during the campaign!)
But the fact is, Conservatives control 30 of the 50 state legislatures... these are the bodies what will draw the new districts for 2022 (although, if the Census doesn't release data on-time, it may have to wait for 2024!).
Either way, Conservatives are well-positioned to take the House in 2022, and while we'll likely lose seats in the Senate in 2022, we should have a strong-enough showing in 2024 (we'll have the numbers on our side) that, with a Conservative winning the White House, we should have FULL control again by 2024! Almost exactly the same way that we lost it!
Panic and hyperbole are the losing tactics of Trump. He lost the popular vote in 2016, and only skimmed by in the Electoral College. He became so polarizing, the 20218 midterms were a referendum on Trump - and he lost MASSIVELY (and we lost the House!). And in 2020, when it was an ACTUAL referendum on Trump, he lost again! (Though, in fairness, not as badly as he lost in 2018, but far worse than in 2016!)
Conservative ideals aren't about playing "Follow the Leader"... they're about having better ideas, better plans, and better implementation than the head-in-the-clouds Democrats!
@dvt said in THIS or THAT: the game:
Anywhere :D... but maybe on the couch
Snowballing or not?
Sorry, @andergarcia - but you didn't pose a new question.
I'm not so much into snowballing - I like my cream fresh from the fountain, and it gets swallowed right then and there!
Into "sexy underwear" or more "just take 'em off already"?
@raphjd said in Is this politics or humor? Rep. Boebert is against ALL amendments!:
If you like to read a cross-section of news, then why do you only seem to know about the stupid staff conservatives say/do, but never seem to know about liberals doing stupid crap?
Um, this is one of the few political posts I have initiated that was directed at one side or another... you do a fine job of picking on the left, you just tend to overplay your hand!
Had you written about Rep. Boebert, you would have made it seem like she was an active threat to all of Democracy, and the failure of the House to censure or remove her would be tantamount to removing all of the constitutional amendments, erasing our freedoms!
I don't resort to hyperbole - in fact, I even GAVE HER THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT, even while laughing at her!
We're all human - we ALL make mistakes!
I would think that Obama (via the Dear Colleagues letters) stripping male college students of their Due Process would be an important thing to know about for a conservative. Or the Betsy DeVos was "controversial" because she was hell-bent on restoring their right to Due Process and other rights Obama took away.
I still have no idea about the historical context of this "due process" argument you keep making - and you keep failing to clarify... but let's skip that - let's give you the point that somehow Betsy DeVos restored someone's due process rights... she also tried - very hard - to defund public education (in favor of using public money in private schools, with the Government choosing "winners and losers" in which schools could receive that money). She worked HARD to allow schools - secondary and collegiate - to infringe on the free-speech rights of students and faculty, under the guise that these publicly-owned institutions were "special" government institutions.
She was a nightmare for educators... even Conservative educators I know despised her as the head of the Dept of Education!
Just as Trump did do some good things (actually, quite a few) while he overall trashed and diminished the office of the Presidency, I'll give you that not every breath Betsy DeVos took was evil incarnate. I still don't know what you mean about this due-process thing, but I'm tired of asking about it - I'll cede that to you... you win, albeit an empty one.
@raphjd said in NY School Principal Urges Parents To Become ‘White Abolitionists’ With Propaganda Graphic:
Whataboutisms are valid. Just ask Democrats for the next 4 years.
You totally ignored my point, intentionally.
Wealthy blacks get affirmative action, while we ignore poor white boys. Only racists (aka liberals) believe that is ok.
It's not just in WV. I used WV as an example.
What-about-ism's are disqualifying in debate. It's "changing the focus" of the discussion.
And your argument that Democrats will do it over the next 4-years is, in itself, a what-about-ism! (Circular logic, anyone?)
To briefly address that point, though: YES, they are certainly going to pull that shit - politicians on all sides have become adept at it, because it works! At least it works with the masses..., but that doesn't mean that smart people won't see through it!
Still, as I said above: comparing wealthy blacks to poor whites to try to highlight racial inequities is apples and oranges.... unless you're inferring that the wealthy blacks shouldn't be allowed to create wealth so long as there are still poor whites! But that would be racist and moronic... so, I'm glad that's NOT the point you're making... right?
As for affirmative action, you need to get out of your echo chamber once in a while. Your ideas about it appear to be highly skewed.
So you know, I, a middle-income, middle-aged, white man have benefited from affirmative-action set-asides: in my case, small-business set-aside government contracts!
There is no way I could compete against the huge companies that would normally gobble up all of the Government contracts... but the Government sets aside some of the smaller of those contracts and INSISTS that ALL competitors for those set-aside contracts be "certified small businesses".
To qualify to BID on these contracts, you have to meet certain criteria - and SOME (though, certainly not all... mot even a majority) of the "seats at the table" (that is, some of the companies that get certified) have a fast-track to getting there by being minority-owned. (There are also affirmative-action "seats" for Veterans & women)...
But, to paraphrase the great Paul Harvey, you don't know the Rest of the Story!
Once you get the seat at that table (that is, once you qualify as a certified small business), you still have to BID on the contracts that the Government brings to you... and you have to WIN - based on your competence, price, and other factors... factors that are germane to the contract, not race, gender, or other superfluous information!
Mind you, AT THAT POINT, there is nothing in your BID that identifies you as a small black-owned, or veteran-owned, or woman-owned) business. The bids don't include the identity of the bidder! The Government picks the winner, then "unveils" who submitted that bid.
The point is, affirmative action may set-aside a few seats at the table for blacks, or hispanics, or veterans, or women... but those are not ALL of the seats. You also STILL have to qualify, and more importantly, you still have to WIN the bidding!
But focusing on the front-end is a waste of time... these small-business set-asides still have to perform! I have WON re-bids on contracts because the original bidder didn't perform! The Government doesn't award 5-year contracts: they award 1-year contracts with 4 possible renewals of 1-year each! You don't perform, and you get replaced! Lose too many contracts that way and you also lose your "seat at the table"...
A lot of people look at college admissions. Most stupidly focus on the Ivy League schools - because that's where the wealthy white "legacy" parents get butt-hurt (to borrow @raphjd 's term) when their little Johnny Junior, with his private tutors, coaches, and counselors with a solid 3.5GPA from his "competitive private school"... lost out to a black kid from the ghetto who had 2 jobs, no tutors, no counselors, and a similar 3.4GPA from some low-income public school...
The same thing happens at high-end schools. You get there, sure! You were a super-star in High School! But now you're competing against nothing-but other super-stars! And you excel in that competition, or you're out! There are plenty of 1st year rejects and also-rans waiting to transfer in Sophomore year!
Case in point: in my freshman orientation at Ga Tech, they sat us in a room in groups of 5 in rows of 20 total... and they were quite blunt:
Now, look across... in your entire row, only 8 of you will make it to graduation at Tech at all... but 5 of you will have changed majors. And, finally, only TWO of you - on the entire row - will actually graduate in exactly 4 years... the rest will take longer. There will be obstacles. There will be winners and losers.
The situation at other high-tier colleges and universities is the same, or even harsher! It's hard to get in - with or without set-asides (you call it affirmative action)... but it's harder still to stay in!
There are ALWAYS winners and losers in life. If everyone gets a medal, the value of that medal is diminished. (How many kids of the 80's and 90's kept their participation trophies? Kids from the 50's and 60's kept those trophies on their mantle to show their kids...and grandkids! Kids from the 80's and 90's tossed them - and in many cases, also tossed their REAL trophies - because their meaning was diminished... diluted.)
There is a need to give others a "seat at the table" - to provide a way to compete in the marketplace. There will always be a need to provide SOME set-asides for some group or another. This is reality, not a board game!
So, the long and the short of this is that Rep. Lauren Boebert, a QAnon-spouting nutjob from Colorado, stuck her foot in her mouth in a hilarious way that validates her High School's decision NOT to award her a diploma:
She said on twitter: Protecting and defending the Constitution doesn’t mean trying to rewrite the parts you don’t like.
Um... it's written into the Constitution that we can, and should, update it from time to time, as needed!
It should also be ironic (if it weren't so sad) then that she campaigned on her undying support of the 2nd Amendment... you get it, right? The 2nd Amendment was a change to the Constitution!
Now, I want to point out something here: clearly, this woman isn't THAT dumb... she tried to say something, tried to shorten it for Twitter, and wound up with something ridiculous! And now, she's being roasted in the liberal social-sphere (queerty claims there's "no agenda but the queer one," but you don't have to read far to see a clear liberal - hard liberal - bent!).
Liberals and Conservatives both have their outlets for this kind of thing... and I, for one, like to read a cross section of them all!
I'm posting this here to offset the hard-left posts others seem to flood this forum with...
I have found, personally, that by reading the opinions and thoughts of others - especially those who think differently than I do - helps me either strengthen my beliefs, or question them... either is a positive, personal-growth step!
@raphjd said in NY School Principal Urges Parents To Become ‘White Abolitionists’ With Propaganda Graphic:
We've been discriminating against whites and males for over 50 years.
Poor white boys in the hollers of West Virginia are ignored, while wealthy blacks get AA.
Again with the "what about... isms"... you do realize that is a disqualifying factor in actual debate?
So.... wealthy blacks in WV get Alcoholics Anonymous? 
I never knew ANYONE had to pay for that!
Seriously though, there's a difference (and not a difficult one to discern) between under-served communities (virtually ALL of West Virginia - for reasons that go beyond this discussion) and racist policies.
The correct analogy isn't between poor whites and wealthy blacks - it's between poor whites and poor blacks!
Are you honestly implying you'd rather be poor and BLACK in West Virginia than poor and WHITE?
@raphjd said in NY School Principal Urges Parents To Become ‘White Abolitionists’ With Propaganda Graphic:
Even Oprah said I have far more privilege than she does, simply because I'm white and male.
Of course, she ignores how much privilege her massive wealth gives her over me.
Obama and many other wealthy blacks have said similar things.
When the tortoise and the hare start off the race, and the tortoise has a brick tied to its tail... but through it all, the tortoise still finds a way to win... you just can't let him look back and say "you know, I started this thing with a brick tied to my tail"???
That Oprah and Obama have done so well is a testament to their hard work (and a lot of luck!)... NEITHER of them had parents with the ability to give them $million "starter packages"...
Consider:
Obama's "kickstart" fund: $0,000,000
Obama's business & personal bankruptcy filings: 0
Oprah's "kickstart" fund: $0,000,000
Oprah's business & personal bankruptcy filings: 0
Donald Trump's "Kickstart" fund: $68,000,000 (he admits to $1M, his father's tax records put it at over $68M)
Donald Trump's business & personal bankruptcy filings: 6 (so far - more are likely with his current fiscal crisis)
Mind you, Donald Trump has been VERY successful - financially: I'm not posting about politics here, just about race and finances - but you can't discount the fact that he got a "head start"...
That head start of Trump's, though, wasn't race-based... or was it?
Even into the 1980's, US Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans were supposedly (legally) available to all... but in practice more than 95% of FHA loans went to white people... and it's not that black people didn't apply! Their applications were often declined for laughable reasons (one example I read about, but cannot find a reference for: when asked on the form to list their income, the applicant wrote $11,000/yr - the application was declined because their tax form says the made $11,247 in a year, thus they misstated their income... )
That's HISTORY, not politics... the political question is what do we do about it now... and while I don't know, I DO know that just giving cash to black families - because their ancestors were slaves and/or disadvantaged by race-based polities (both legal and illegal) - is not a starting point.
You don't fix one race-based wrong with another race-based wrong.
@raphjd said in CNN let's Biden get away with LIES:
I hope you enjoy your tax increases and all the other shit Biden gives you.
And you better start learning Chinese.
Hmmm... hyperbolic much?
Your glass isn't half-full or half-empty: it's polluted by liberal-tainted water and black-lives-matter-polluted air!
@magicdhani8 said in THIS or THAT: the game:
Cum inside ass or mouth?
Ass! I can almost never get off orally - love it, it just won't get me to shoot!
Race in porn matters? Or not?
I had to read that one - fortunately, "White abolitionist" doesn't refer to getting rid of white people, just getting rid of "white privilege"...
Still, it's a radical piece (not authored by the principal)... and it's full of assumptions about virtually everything being racially targeted against blacks (PoCs)... an extremist view as much as a white supremacist's...
I suspect there will be some blow-back... I hope there is some blow-back!
@raphjd said in CNN let's Biden get away with LIES:
"Conservative Libertarian" that hasn't found a leftist idea/person you don't love.
You and I haven't spoken a lick about Biden - whom I am absolutely no fan of - mostly, just Trump
You seem to have assumed that because I think Donald Trump was one of the worst Presidents (not for policy, but for the institution of the Presidency itself) in history - that somehow that equates to my being a supporter of Biden...
Well, I guess, by your measure, if you were against Hitler, you must have been FOR Stalin!
How about this. Speaking for myself:
Not the FIRST Democrat I've ever voted for, and sadly, not likely the last... but I can HOPE it's the last!
But I'm not an idealist, just an optimist: if my party puts up someone as awful as Trump again, I'll hold my nose and vote for someone else... again!
@raphjd said in CNN let's Biden get away with LIES:
Keep proving that you are a liberal.
So long as your definition of liberal is anyone who finds any fault with The Supreme One, the Exalted Orange Don... then, by that definition, I am a liberal.
By nearly any other definition, I'm a Conservative Libertarian.
@raphjd said in Plaintiffs drop lawsuit over Facebook militia posts:
True, about FB servers but it was the idea of it all.
Other than what the Big Tech cabal and liberal talking heads say, do you have any proof that Parler was allowing illegal content?
We know that Twitter and FB allow all kinds of crap on their platforms as long as it's from a certain political viewpoint, that they would never allow from the other side.
AWS proved it's nothing but a shitty liberal business.
The fact that once again you are supporting a shitty liberal business proves I'm right about you being nothing more than a RINO.
LOL absolutely none of my response had anything to do or say about the political nature of any of those companies... it was a TECH response, not a POLITICAL one.
I'm a tech professional - I have clients in MS Azure, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and Linode (sorry Oracle, you're out!)
Parler's problem with AWS was that they ignored the notices, warnings, and threats from AWS that they weren't following the requirements needed to maintain all of that Section 230 "protection"...
AWS was clear in their press releases... they were moving to protect themselves from lawsuits where Section 230 would not have provided protections....
@raphjd said in CNN let's Biden get away with LIES:
They get butt hurt that Trump plays golf but write love letters about how Biden beat his granddaughter at Mario Cart.
You being you, means you can't understand the difference.
Well, I do know that it takes several hours to play a round of golf, and typically less than ONE hour to play Mario Cart.
I also know that when the President plays a round of golf, dozens (if not hundreds) of other golfers are inconvenienced because the Secret Service essentially shuts down the whole course to other golfers...
... and when the President plays Mario Cart in the White House with his granddaughter, there are no other (additional) people inconvenienced at all.
I also know that the media focused on Trump's golfing BECAUSE it was such hypocrisy - Trump lambasted Obama for playing golf while President, then when he was in office, he played golf more than TWICE as often!
This topic (abortion) is an absurd one to have or leave between politicians.
The Government should not be a part of medical decisions.
Abortion is being used as a political football and it is gross and immoral... at ALL levels.
Abortion is a medical procedure. It should fall under HIPPA and other privacy laws; and restrictions on how and when it is practiced should be made and policed by the medical community.
The Government should not be a part of medical decisions.
Mind you: the medical community has politics itself. Truly, any time you get 3 or more people together, there will be politics! But there is a difference:
The Government should not be a part of medical decisions.
That's not a Conservative Christian ideal, but I don't subscribe to Government-mandated morals... I'm a Libertarian in this aspect of my politics.
The AMA and every State's Board of Medicine establish rules of conduct for medical practitioners...
THEY should be the ones in charge of "generalized" rules for abortion - the same as they are for cardiac procedures and emergency medicine procedures and hospice procedures!
The Government should not be a part of medical decisions.
@raphjd said in Rush Limbaugh dies at 70 from lung cancer:
Liberals on social media are celebrating.
Quite disgusting, but hey, they're liberals.
There are disgusting, monstrous people on both sides. That said, people celebrating the death of another is the worst in human behavior.
It's like how they danced when the Antifa member stalked and murdered the Trump supporter.
... celebrating the death of another is the worst in human behavior.
