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Why is it people "like you" care so much that women who get pregnant KEEP their babies, and give birth to them, and then once they're born, they're of little to no consequence or worthy of your regard?
As an embryo, they're priceless...
As an infant, they're disposable...
You sicken me... morally, anyway...
Fact: some idiot - a 22-year-old named Garrett Smith - in Florida (in the actual county where I live, so there was a lot more coverage here!) brought an explosive device (apparently made from M80 fireworks) to a protest about a detainee who participated in the Jan 6, 2021 insurrection in DC.
He hasn't said which side he was on - and there has been nothing in his personal effects or online presence that would identify whether he was in favor of, or against the protest. The kid had other explosive devices in his home, and the investigations continue - but our local Sheriff (Gualtieri - who I voted for, LOL) hasn't been able to determine what the intent was at that rally.... the explosives were still in his backpack (even tho he was running away from the rally)... and he's not talking.
Maybe he intended to do harm at the rally and chickened out?
Maybe he attended the rally and forgot the device was even in his backpack?
Maybe his target was something else, near the rally, and he was just passing by - and because the rally was being surveilled by the Sheriff, they lucked out in catching him?
Maybe he's an FBI plant, testing the Sheriff's office?
Maybe he's a CIA operative sent to cause general disruption and dismay?
Maybe he's a Russian Spy?
Maybe he's from the future and was sent to PREVENT a bombing, and the explosives are what he's taken from others so that he can alter the future!
Lots of unknowns - and he's not talking!
So, where does the Antifa part come from? Apparently, he recently went to Portland, OR and the Antifa activists there prefer to wear all black. (I had no idea my nephew - who is a kind-of modern-day "goth" - was also Antifa! I actually thought he was pro-Trump!)
So where does the rest of this made-up shit come from?
We don't (yet) know if he's a liberal or conservative - only that he's dangerous (because of the explosives) and likes to wear black... and that makes him a liberal and antifa?
But the Russian Propaganda Machine says that we take all these unknowns and fill in our own answers - specifically to make our enemies (liberals!) out to be violent, unreasonable, evil, and devious!
If you believe your own propaganda, liberals are elite intellectuals who are better organized, and generally superior to conservatives in every measurable way - except that they're wrong, and you're right!
Heil Putin!
... and I call bullshit (again!)
Honestly, this kid is where he belongs: in a jail cell about 20 miles from here. Additionally, all of his explosive toys have been confiscated (tho M80s are hardly difficult to find in these parts!).
As to his intentions, only the mind readers know for now, as his home and online environments have not been revealing, and he's not talking.
Oh, and you two - YOU TWO know more than our Sheriff ... well, because you just DO! (and because your Russian Propaganda Machine sources say you do!)
@kekkaishi said in Lush cosmetics store kicks out disabled child over inability to wear a mask:
@bi4smooth I would argue that it wasn't a mistake. It was a bad decision
OK - potato / potato (LOL)
Take the original quote - substitute your word choice, and it seems essentially the same to me:
People make mistakes - re-train the employee, apologize to the mother & child, and move on. Let it be a teaching moment, so to speak...
vs
People make bad decisions - re-train the employee, apologize to the mother & child, and move on. Let it be a teaching moment, so to speak...
@geobear40 said in Georgia Officials Tampered With and Deleted Hours of Ballot Box Video Before It Was Released to Investigators:
I think you are all missing the point.
This is not evidence that Trump should be President but that there are to many ways to cheat if someone wanted to. Laws are needed to to minimize the ability to cheat.
2020 showed us that a few fraudulent votes cast in key districts is a few key states could change the out come of an election.
So, you look at one of the GREAT STRENGTHS of our voting system (that each State, nay each County in each State) has its own - unique - election system, such that, even IF, for example Dominion voting machines with a specific code set were compromised, it would only affect a tiny fraction of the overall vote!
The Russians and Chinese CAN'T hack our elections (though they certainly can influence them with misinformation campaigns!) because there is no one way (nor even a single hundred ways) to do so! They would have to simultaneously, and secretly, break into HUNDREDS - nay, thousands - of systems to be successful! Systems that are (from a computer science perspective) not at all similar!
Nah - you go ahead.... CENTRALIZE the voting systems - make them all "perfect"! That way, one good hack CAN change millions of votes!
The professionals - the supervisors of elections - FROM BOTH PARTIES! - agree overwhelmingly: 2020 was one of the "cleanest" elections in our history!
Only thing is: "Trumpty Dumpty the loser" had a great fall... and we all know that COULDN'T have happened, because he was supposed to have had it RIGGED - in his FAVOR!
So, if Trumpty Dumpty didn't win, the only plausible explanation is that someone out-cheated him!
@raphjd said in Georgia Officials Tampered With and Deleted Hours of Ballot Box Video Before It Was Released to Investigators:
Your extreme TDS colors everything you believe.
The ones hyper-focused on Trumpty Dumpty are the ones focused on the PAST - and what could have been! Making up stories to justify a significant, but valid LOSS!
But wait, you can't lose - unless you were cheated!
@raphjd said in Georgia Officials Tampered With and Deleted Hours of Ballot Box Video Before It Was Released to Investigators:
It's amazing how a pair of losers turned a thread about voter fraud into an anti-Trump tirade, AGAIN.
OH! You were talking about the alleged voter fraud about the election of Marjory Taylor Greene, not Trump!
My bad!
@raphjd said in NTSB to investigate Pittsburg bridge collapse just hours before Biden visit on BBB plan:
They love their whataboutisms.
I predicted this exact thing. Before Trump even took office I predicted that liberals would demand that no one mention Obama after he leaves office, but once Trump left office, they would never shut up about him.
You clearly don't follow any liberal news outlets (I follow liberal, conservative, and moderate media!)...
My point being, as Saintly as Trump is to the Republicans, Obama is just as much so to the Dems... every utterance he makes generates headlines in their world! (Obama doesn't demand loyalty and fealty like Trump, but he actually GETS it from Dems - without the demands, threats & retaliatory "strikes" against those that would dare oppose even a single breath... something that likely eats away at Trump's ego nightly LOL)
The difference is that Obama followed the "old playbook" at the end of his term, and at least initially, tried to stay out of the spotlight. Trump LIVES FOR the spotlight!!! Now though, both fight for news coverage, even though BOTH are "old news"...
But, as much as @eobox91103 is correct in stating that Trump paid lip-service (and little else) to infrastructure issues, the exact same can be said of Obama before him, and even Bush and Clinton before them! Infrastructure woes are nothing new!
Putting off Infrastructure projects has been bi-partisan agreed-upon folly for decades now!
@raphjd said in Black Lives Matter sent millions to Canada charity to buy mansion:
https://nypost.com/2022/01/29/black-lives-matter-sent-millions-to-canada-charity-m4bj-for-mansion/
BLMers are as marxist as Bernie.
Yet another NY Post hyperbolic and misleading story...
So, the person (not the group) who finagled this abuse of not-for-profit-organization money (doesn't matter if it's a liberal cause or a conservative one - it's a NFP organization!) has already resigned as a result of these things coming to light... resigned last year, and others involved are also either resigning or being forced out.
A legit story, yes - sure - in 2020 and maybe in 2021!
A little "old news" for 2022 tho...
This just in: famed Presidential dog Checkers has died...
@geobear40 said in Twitter suspends Daily Wire's Matt Walsh after he posted gender critical 'transphobic' tweets:
Being trans and being homosexual are not the same thing. Trans persons are a minority so small that they have to become part of a larger group to get any respect.
You really think that the trans community encompasses all of homosexuality?
You silly fool (and I do not use the term loosely):
You, my dear queer, are a transphobe... sad, but you've proven it!
@raphjd said in NTSB to investigate Pittsburg bridge collapse just hours before Biden visit on BBB plan:
"You clearly don't follow any liberal news outlets (I follow liberal, conservative, and moderate media!)..."
If you followed anyone other than Joy "I was hacked" Reid, The Root, Slate, and Salon, you would not have said that Kyle Rittenhouse killed 3 black men, especially after the court case. Where you got the insane idea that it happened in Chicago, is anybody's guess. Prior to the court case, all your gods in liberal media were claiming he killed 3 black men, but most stopped this lie once the court case started and it was impossible to maintain the lie.
You also DO NOT watch conservative news because if you did, you would know for a fact that all the liberal media darlings spouting Russian Collusion on TV, said the exact opposite in Shifty Schiff's secret bunker hearings. You even refused to watch the video I posted where Tucker showed the video clips of them saying one thing and then read from their sworn testimony saying the complete opposite. If you went to the video page on YouTube, there was even a link to the government site where you can actually read their sworn testimony.
Yup, you're back to your childish stage... Guessing your Russian handlers haven't been feeding you any new material lately...
yawn...
@geobear40 said in Black Lives Matter sent millions to Canada charity to buy mansion:
@bi4smooth said in Black Lives Matter sent millions to Canada charity to buy mansion:
A legit story, yes - sure - in 2020 and maybe in 2021!
A little "old news" for 2022 tho...Is it "old news" because they have done it before?
Are you "letting it side" because you expect NFP to spend most of their donation on over priced assets and high payrolls?
I guess the Liberals took cues from the Churches.A real 501(c)(3) should be spending 90% - 95% of their donation on helping people in need not the other way around.
While that percentage is a bit on the "unrealistically high" side, I agree in principle that non-profits need careful watching... sadly, the IRS has been de-fanged and de-clawed - largely by Republicans, but also by some fat-cat Dems trying to save some dough...
But dude, to say that Liberal NPO's (Non-Profit Organizations) are any worse than Conservative ones is just being blind! The NRA hasn't been dirty?
Without oversight, they're ALL dirty!
@raphjd said in Black Lives Matter sent millions to Canada charity to buy mansion:
@bi4smooth said in Black Lives Matter sent millions to Canada charity to buy mansion:
@raphjd said in Black Lives Matter sent millions to Canada charity to buy mansion:
https://nypost.com/2022/01/29/black-lives-matter-sent-millions-to-canada-charity-m4bj-for-mansion/
BLMers are as marxist as Bernie.
Yet another NY Post hyperbolic and misleading story...
So, the person (not the group) who finagled this abuse of not-for-profit-organization money (doesn't matter if it's a liberal cause or a conservative one - it's a NFP organization!) has already resigned as a result of these things coming to light... resigned last year, and others involved are also either resigning or being forced out.
A legit story, yes - sure - in 2020 and maybe in 2021!
A little "old news" for 2022 tho...This just in: famed Presidential dog Checkers has died...
Says the man who gets his news from Joy "I was hacked" Reid, The Root, Slate, and Salon, all of whom lied about Kyle Rittenhouse even after the court case claiming he murdered 3 black men. I'm still not sure where you heard that it happened in Chicago though, but it's probably something you just made up in your head.
The only person more infallible than the Great and Powerless @raphjd is the Orange and Fat One himself - yes, only He Who Must Be Named is more flawless than @raphjd!
Yes, I conflated 2 different stories... I said my mea culpas... weeks, no months, ago!
Now go Google "mea culpa" so you know what I said! 
@raphjd said in Because the science says so:
I think he's saying to punish the business for following the corrupt law.
Laws are laws - you don't "fight" a law by ignoring it, you fight a law by protesting it, and working to elect representatives to CHANGE the law...
So - if I'm reading you right, you're not just an authoritarian (when Trumpty Dumpty is in power), but you're an anarchist when he's not!
Yer a reel prowd Merikan!
@raphjd said in Proof that black privilege is real:
Clearly, you are one of those people that believe only whites can be racist.
@Raphjd - you often make that statement - as-if the fact that other people can be racist is somehow an excuse for continued white racism...
What I find amazing is that you (y'all to be more correct) seem to forget that "racism" exists within White cultures and Black cultures alike:
ONLY IN AMERICA is race defined so distinctly and resolutely - nearly solely - by skin color!
This blended view is so unlike the rest of the world - and it's also why Whoopie Goldberg got into so much trouble with her comments that the Holocaust wasn't a racial thing... to HER MIND, the Holocaust was white-on-white!
In the US, it's hard to keep the Greek/Turk "war" going on when the both have been marrying the Irish & the Italians & the Portuguese - & maybe even some Asians or Blacks to boot - over the generations... Indeed, many of those "warring factions" have intermarried in the "melting pot" of the US.
And, if you haven't noticed yet, the same is happening more and more frequently between the "races" that DO have different skin pigmentation! While my own heritage is nearly all Scottish & Irish (based on a DNA test), my grandchildren are a mixed bunch: one of my daughters married a Black man, another an Asian one... my grand-babies are a rainbow of fruity colors (racially), and I couldn't be prouder or happier!
But back to the point... 2 wrongs to not make a right, and the fact that some Blacks are racist against Whites, and some Jews are racist against Gentiles, and so on -- does not give you a "free pass" for the white supremacy that is rearing its ugly head in the US today... wrong is wrong is wrong.
I have no problem when @raphjd says some BLM activists are racist... I DO have a problem with excusing the actions of KKK marchers with a "what about BLM?" argument...
@lololulu19 said in Proof that black privilege is real:
@raphjd and yet.. n-words call other n-words the n-word all the time. If they banned the n-word, rap music would vanish overnight.
For once, @lololulu19 has a valid point...
@lololulu19 said in Proof that black privilege is real:
@msoft You joined this site in 2010.. 12 years ago.. yet your profile says you are 21.. which would make you 9 years old when you joined.
How is it possible to be a member of this site for 12 years, and still be a LURKER?What are you doing here?
Instead of LURKER.. you should be labelled what you really are.. a TROLL.
OK, a couple of things:
For that matter, my own profile shows:
Joined 23 Jun 2008, 00:43 Last Online less than a minute ago Age 21
Can YOU see a pattern?
Probably not: it shows EVERYONE as being age 21 - likely because we don't enter our birthdays anywhere on this site!
From a post in 2014:
Ascending these classes is based on the number of posts –
| Class | Number of posts |
| Lurker | 0 |
| Newbie | 3 |
| Jr. Member | 50 |
| Full Member | 100 |
| Sr. Member | 250 |
| Hero Member | 500 and above |
If those "classes" were active today, I'd be a "Hero" (1700+ posts), and @lololulu19 would be a "Hero" as well (620+ posts) (note: these numbers are visible to all under the USERS tab at the top of the page)
Mind you, we also used to get SBP on the torrent side for posting in the forum - that doesn't apply anymore, either!
@raphjd said in Black Nationalist and liberal darling charged with attempted murder of Louisville mayoral candidate:
I'd trust a crack addict over you, any day.
You already so...
search Qanon... cut/paste... repeat...
@orhaqi123 said in Ottawa police run through protesters with horses and kill at least one:
https://twitter.com/alissagolob/status/1494815873944616960
Full on tyranny happening in Canada.
A lot of Gov't overreach going on in Canada these days - but this isn't a valid description of what's in the video...
Long story short - while the Gov't of Canada is doing some pretty aggressive things lately - towards their own citizens - this isn't one of them...
@raphjd said in Trudeau says Canada will stand against authoritarianism:
It's been discussed here many times before. We were originally told that the vaxx would prevent us from getting/spreading covid.
You continue to be a whore to your Russian masters... forever more!
We've been through this before:
The COVID-19 vaccines do exactly what every other vaccine does, and has done, since 1798 (the first smallpox vaccine - the first ever human vaccine - was invented in 1798).
Let's be clear... first about what vaccines ARE NOT:
It's helpful in understanding those statements, if you understand what vaccines are actually developed and designed to do: vaccines are designed to trigger an immune response in those who receive the "treatment". That is: the point of the vaccine is to prepare the host (human body) to more effectively fight (by itself) the targeted pathogen. As a result:
So, why is it Scientists say that vaccines "prevent" the disease? Well, in most cases the pathogens multiply inside the unvaccinated human host, who then spreads the pathogen to others. The longer the infection lasts, the more infectious the original host becomes.
Things work differently in a vaccinated host: when the vaccinated host detects the presence of the pathogen, the vaccine-boosted immune response keeps the levels of pathogen growing in the body much lower. For some pathogens, this means that the level of infection never rises to the point where the host is contagious, in others (with particularly virulent pathogens), it reduces the period of time that they are contagious.
Most pathogens do not make the host sick immediately upon infection... it takes time for the pathogen to "build up" before the effects are noticeable by the infected host. Again, the "pathways" for vaccinated and unvaccinated hosts differ:
THIS IS HOW THE COVID-19 VACCINES SAVE LIVES
Not through some magic that creates a barrier that prevent the virus from entering the body. Not by directly attacking the COVID-19 virus itself (that would be a TREATMENT - like an antibiotic for some bacterial infections - not a vaccine!).
No, just like all the other vaccines we already have in our lives... by strengthening our own bodies' immune systems! Like we have been doing for over 200 years, now!
No vaccine (and, indeed, no treatment) is 100% effective. But Trump's new m-RNA based vaccines are EXCEPTIONALLY effective, and require a TINY FRACTION of the research and testing time needed to adjust (tweak) for variants - or even for whole other diseases!
The m-RNA technology that Trump jumpstarted will be a game-changer in immunology research! (No, he didn't invent it - but he gave it the funding and attention needed to move it a decade or more along in its research "path"! And that has saved untold thousands - perhaps even millions - of lives!)
And your whining that it doesn't "prevent all infection" (it never could - not even by design!) or "prevent all contagion" (also never could - also by design) won't change any of that! We won't "unlearn" the science, and 10-years from now, MOST of our vaccines will likely be based-on the m-RNA vaccines developed for COVID-19!
Trudeau has been photoed/videoed without a mask, despite his mandates for his own people. It's not just him, but all world leaders.
Again, you act as-if Liberals were the only hypocrites! OK, maybe they're more hypocritical of mask-wearing rules - but that's just one example! Conservative lawmakers are hypocritical in all sorts of areas too!
That doesn't make their hypocrisy any less important or any more acceptable... but dogs who bite need to be handled too - but aren't worthy of headline-level attention!
OK, so some ass clowns joined in. But did the truckers do any of the violence BLM and Antifa did and still do? Your government gives them money while calling truckers "domestic terrorists".
OK, so the Canadian Gov't doesn't list BLM or Antifa as official Terrorist Groups (domestic or otherwise) - and neither do they list Truckers (See here)
Who they DO list includes the Proud Boys and the Three Percenters - organizations who support the overthrow of the current Gov't, vs protesting for change within the current Gov't. (It's a subtle difference - I doubt @raphjd will get it!)
For the record, the Canadian Gov't never called the truckers "domestic terrorists" - they said they were acting like domestic terrorists! There's a difference! I can say @raphjd acts like a Russian agent without meaning that he is actually a Russian agent! (I can show the former, but I cannot prove the latter!)
@Postwhore02 said in Trudeau says Canada will stand against authoritarianism:
@raphjd Allow me? Proof's in the pudding darling. You're the only one here. Hypocrite. Yeah, I can stalk you but it doesn't discount the fact you don't post this anywhere else, just here on "YOUR" site. Prove me wrong and start posting your "tolerant" views elsewhere too
To be fair to @raphjd:
Does any of that excuse his hard-headed refusal to ever admit to being wrong? Or even "misinterpreted"? Of course not! But as I do in other areas of this Politics section: let's be fair and avoid unnecessary hyperbole.
We can disagree without insisting the "other guy" is stupid or just-plain-evil! (even if one, or both, are actually true LOL)
