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@raphjd I wonder if they will create a NEW Donald Trump when Trump wins his 2nd term in 2024.. or will they use the same old one.. which is actually the robot animatron they made of Hillary Clinton, but then just stretched a mask of Trump on top of it.

@bi4smooth

Section 230 isn't needed in the US.

Prior to Section 230, if they act as a publisher, they are liable for what is posted, but if they act as a platform they are not. We discussed the 2 lawsuits that made this clear.

Section 230 made special rights for "big tech" so they could act as both. It allows them to ban speech they don't like, as a publisher but protects them from lawsuits as a platform.

NO, I am not talking about the few limited cases of banned content by the government and SCotUS.

Your type of conservatism is "but muh corporations are people, so they have muh human rights".

Umm, liberals own virtually all of "big tech", or have you forgotten?

@raphjd said in Ivermectin - the liberal hoax:

@bi4smooth

You forgot the AP story about 70% of calls to Poison Control is for Ivermectin issues. It was less than 2% and in many cases, it was asking for information, not about medical needs.

The examples of "aggregators" not doing even basic homework on the stuff they're regurgitating are many and varied... on all sides.

In a perfect world, we'd find a way BACK to making news reporting a non-profit enterprise... so that there was no need to hyper-inflate stories, and no value in click-bait!

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“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”

― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

@bi4smooth

We are letting in people that worked with us in Afghanistan.

Obama-Biden Admin persecuted US soldiers who talked openly about "our allies in Afghanistan" engaging in raping boys aka bacha bazi.

It's a similar situation with the UK.

As for the article you linked to, it has some untrustworthy people as sources.

@raphjd said in Unhinged Teacher Taped Face Mask to 9-Year-Old’s Face:

https://rumble.com/vm67n3-unhinged-teacher-taped-face-mask-to-9-year-olds-face.html

This is getting pretty wide-spread coverage - and I mention that because this is a 1-off case... a substitute teacher in a school district (Las Vegas) that is practically begging for nearly ANYONE to become a teacher due to shortages and COVID medical leaves. The district doesn't claim it didn't happen, and the "teacher" is being disciplined - but that is a "private" matter, so we'll probably never get to hear about the fallout...

It doesn't make it right - but substitute teachers have done MUCH MUCH worse, and received a LOT less coverage in the media!

Don Le Mon may have black skin and kinky hair.. but he most certainly does not represent black people.. nor does he represent men. He uses them as a shield.

@bi4smooth

As for the article, this isn't anything new.

GWB gave us the Patriot Act and Obama expanded it beyond anything GWB ever dreamed of. Now the Dems are here to finish Obama's work.

The UK's "constitution" only exists in your (generic) head. Several PMs and people running for PM have promised a written one, but they all lied. Gordon Brown was the last to promise a written constitution, but after becoming PM, he immediately backtracked on that promise.

The Scottish government has been shitting on our legal and human rights via various laws and they are ramping up the draconian laws every time we turn around.

Australia and NZ don't ascribe rights in their constitutions, so they can shit all over their people as they please.

@likegoodmen

Emanuel Samson wasn't injured or killed after shooting up a white church (reverse of Dylann Roof).

When comparing crime stats with police shootings, blacks are the least likely to be shot. Whites are the most likely to be shot.

As much as I hate the police, they are 18 times more likely to be shot by a black guy, than the other way around.

We've had threads about this stuff.

@bi4smooth

Not sure what any of that has to do with you being a complete and total liar.

@raphjd No. The withdrawal was the one thing I agreed with Trump on. That must be a shock to you I'm sure.

@lololulu19

I wonder where our resident fake as fuck libertarian is demanding that these bitches take the vaccine or we stone them to death.

@lololulu19 said in Pfizer-BioNTech Still Immune From Lawsuits Over COVID-19 Vaccine After Federal Approval: Lawyers:

The vaccines are no longer effective... you heard it here first...

Why are there no NEW vaccines? They make new vaccines for the influenza flu every year.

Reasonable questions, and I certainly don't have ALL the answers... but let's start with the first assertion: The vaccines are no longer effective...

The COVID-19 vaccines are just as effective as ever... it's that their "lasting" influence on your immune system wanes over time. The "Booster" is supposed to kick your immune system hard enough to "make it stick" - and the booster is just another dose of the same vaccine.

Many of our vaccines are 3-dose vaccine.. the difference with COVID-19 is that the 1st 2 are so close together. It's my understanding that they're re-examining that protocol. (Remember: this is all NEW science with respect to COVID-19... we're still learning about this virus! That COVID-19 is another coronavirus doesn't really help much: we have vaccines against the flu, but not the cold - but both are caused by coronaviruses!)

As for the Flu analogy, if the same flu was infecting us each year, we wouldn't need new flu shots every year... but that's not the case. The flu that infects the world every year is different from year to year, and they cannot (yet) predict which one will be the "dominant" flu in any given year... thus, not only do you need a flu shot (of a different kind) each year, but there's a decent chance that it won't be effective against the flu that comes out THAT YEAR. (Edit: FWIW: I do NOT get the flu shot every year... I wait and see how BAD the flu "epidmic" is that year and the effectiveness of that year's shot and then make my decision. MOST years, I do NOT take the flu vaccine...)

Compare that to COVID-19 - which is (in spite of the variants) essentially the same virus world-wide, and there hasn't been a "new" one yet... just mutations, and thankfully the existing vaccines work on the mutations (so far) as well.

Finally, if (or perhaps when) COVID-19 mutates again (S. Africa is seeing a new strain that's potentially VERY dangerous), we may need NEW vaccines... let's keep our fingers crossed... that would add a whole new chapter to this ongoing, slow-rolling tragedy...

What a BITCH!

@shami94 said in This is what liberalism does to people:

Just checking in to see how raphjd's personal echo chamber is going. It's been a while but I see it hasn't changed.

It's the same: Some factless conspiracy-theory piece gets posted, and then when it's debunked, he devolves into insults because because there's no rational response to the truth. It's driven many people away from not only this forum group, but the forums in general. (Some of the latter effect might be due to the crappy new interface put up several months ago.)

Sometimes I wonder if it's all a satirical caricature. Nobody with a double-digit IQ could really believe some of the stuff that gets posted.

@bi4smooth

Agreed.

I didn't care for his politics, but he was a great actor.

@bi4smooth

Ok, dearie.

You are just a piece of shit hypocrite.

@raphjd said in Torrance police find 300 unopened recall ballots, with gun, drugs and mail, in sleeping man's car:

@bi4smooth

No, you are just a combative old twat that needs to pick a fight.

LOL - you GO boy!

@bi4smooth said in HOAX - TN Medical Director in charge of C-19 vaccines:

@raphjd said in HOAX - TN Medical Director in charge of C-19 vaccines:

@bi4smooth

If you look, virtually all of the HOAX hate crimes are done by the left.

Some are for political purposes, others are for personal gain and others are for getting out of trouble.

None of them are "nuts". They are all dishonest assholes.

It's like all the fake rape claims.

I'm gonna let that absurd load of crap stand on its own. I think it stinks badly enough that 99.99% of people who read it will hold their nose and move on... just another pile of crap.

I've documented plenty of HOAX hate crimes by the left here, so maybe you can show all the vast amounts of similar by the right. I mean, you must have trillions to choose from, to post for us.

You don't really have any, but as always, you are just pandering to your fellow liberals by spewing shit.