I’m not blaming everything on China. I am saying China does not deserve any praise for helping with a pandemic they created. The mess that the West is in is still mostly their doing.
Happy primary day! Woke up to see Trump retweeting Jill Stein's conspiracy theories about Biden's cognitive abilities. Now with Sanders playing footsie with the idea in his Fox News town hall and Cenk & Chapo pushing the same angle, it looks like the garbage people Voltron is finally coming together! Gotta love seeing Trump, Dr. Jill Stein, B. Sanders, Cenk, Fox News and Chapo all coalesce around one idea
I don't why it's 'racist' to identify the virus with the place it originated from? i don't even believe in it's stigmatic potential :/ we had in the previous years: - MERS "Middle eastern respiratory syndrome" originated in: Middle East - "Rocky mountain spotted fever" originated in: USA - Lyme - German measles - Japanese encephalitis - Alkhurma hemorrhagic fever - Waardenburg - Mediterranean fever, Malta fever, Cyprus fever...........
I have not seen any evidence that supports the strategic assumption, but there are a whole host of reasons a country might go down this route: 1. test the efficacy of a bioweapon; 2. affect national outcomes, say, a national election; 3. determine the weak points of nation states for future exploitation; 4. distract from economic movements or economic threats while harmful and war like international fiscal policy quietly implemented; 5. a test run for a worse and more targeted bioweapon; 6. blame deflection, say, onto a terrorist group. Has any work been done or facts presented to support any hypothesis like this by any objective source of information?
"Made in China" usually means cheap shit. So horrible in this situation.
There are many allegations against Trump also. I do wonder about the timing of this allegation to come to light after the nomination is all but almost confirmed. I also want to trust people. If I was given the choice between Biden and Trump, and I know that a no vote or a vote for a third party would make it more likely to elect Trump, then given the current state of the world with the pandemic response and everything else, I would vote for Biden. I think it’s more important to vote agains the modern Republican Party by voting for he most likely democrat to win, than it is to vote for the candidate that most represents your individual views.
Boohoo I cant get a dog possibly while many are out or work, sick, or dying. Fuck this piece of shit thread.
Is this where we pretend we want them to cancel it for the safety of the workers instead of seeing it as a win for AEW? I want Riddle up.
So I've heard that you can boost your immune system by masturbating. Well I'll see you guys later.
Do you want to say that only trans people may take part of the discussion in this thread? Are only gay and bi people allowed to talk in gay/bi sex threads? Are only males and females allowed in male/female threads? Sorry, but this is nonsense in a discussion board. I'm quite new here (also I lurked since the beginning and for years on the old site), but I also find it quite worrying how everyone that is not full onboard your train is directly put in the "alt right and tranphobic" corner. I mean....if we have the whole spectrum of 100% tolerant lefts far to the right corner of racist and transphobic cunts on the right I think the people you banned here are 99% on your side. But you dismiss them as transphobic....This behaviour doesn't lead to more acceptance. I'm from germany and I only encouter this "there is only black or white" mentality way more in the US than in germany. It seems to me like there is no "gray area" at all in your culture, no matter if its about politics or opinions about sexuality, gender and topics like that. IF it were for transphobic reasons, then those people would also argue against trans men in sports, wouldn't they? Why are they only concerned about trans women in sports? Because they "worry" about the fairness in sports and it is nothing about transphobia at all. Isn't this proof that it is not due to transphobic reasons at all? It's not like there are no cases at all, where trans woman won competitions by a landslide and broke records:There is many, many more and there are also many cis women in sports who said that they have a disadvantage against trans women. I don't say that trans woman may not compete with cis woman. But there have to be rules, like the testosterone level or something like that. I'm not an expert at all, but sports have to be fair...and again, it is not transphobic at all to claim this! I and many other in here don't have a problem at all with trans men competing with cis men. I'm a cis man, I'm 100% for acceptance and tolerance, but the bans in here are mostly very questionable for folks that demand acceptance and tolerance. No, you don't need to accept alt right stuff. No, you don't need to tolerate transphobic stuff, but do you really, really want to put the people that voiced some concerns in here in the "alt right and transphobic" corner? Really?
Just had this video shared with me by a friend in Cambodia, showing how the police are enforcing a lockdown there
Isn't there an official thread for this Biden bedwetting stuff? Again, we're in a pandemic claiming 99% of the news cycle. I'm not saying this news isn't important, but on the totem pole of important or interesting things we should be talking about here, this Biden stuff should be somewhere at the bottom.
the MAYNE STREEM METEOR are again covering up the CRIMES of DEEP STATE DEMOCRATS
True youre probably thinking its Hitler or Richard Spencer or something.
Yeah, this Biden story so far seems to be living exclusively in low rent conservative media, not even Fox or OANN have run with it yet. Makes me think it's already been investigated and no corroborating evidence could be found. If Biden did this, used his aides to create a situation where he would be alone with this woman to assault her, it wasn't the first or last time. That's not some rookie move, it's something you've done before and know you could get away with, and there would be other accusers.
Why the hell was i given a warning when there is a poster here advocating for the lax of restrictions for athletes to participate in the Olympics when there is a god damn pandemic going around? Wtf kind of bullshit is this?
God they are annoying as fuck, and their baboon balloon lips make them look like mutated circus clowns painted like street whores. I tried, but only got about 2 minutes in before I had to shut the video. Just go watch a porno if thats what you want.
Trump "crushing him" would be pot calling kettle black though, and reinstigate all of his record that we've heard in the past few years. Maybe this will finally wake up the fucking Dems to back Bernie instead of ignoring him.
Why would Democrats back a candidate whose supporters don't show up to vote?
The way this forum is handling these posts is absurd. Did we forget that forums are supposed to be about discussion? This is just an echo chamber at this point. Say what you will about GAF at least they were better at promoting actual an actual dialogue.
As a lurker who came over after Neogaf, I find myself checking the site less and less. - The trigger happy ban policy is absurd. I get the impression users are scared to have an opinion that doesn't fit the mods agenda. This leads to nothing more than echo chamber with no real discussion to be had. Imagine in your personal life if you shut down every conversation where you disagreed with someone. - Awful topic threads. The same posters over and over posting personal topics that are of no interest to anyone but themselves, to get a sense of validation that I assume is absent in their own lives. - Negativity and toxicity. The constant bickering is exhausting. It feels like everyone is playing morality top trumps, trying to out do each other and be faux outraged by any slightly divisive opinion. - I hate Trump as much as anyone, but the constant daily threads about him and his party on here are depressing. It would be nice to have a break for a bit. I swear posters get off on posting about his latest bullshit. We get it. He's a total prick. - Opinion threads posted as fact like a BuzzFeed clickbait headline. - Threads with people threatening to take their own lives. This is a serious topic obviously, but it seems to be the same people over and over who never take onboard any of the genuinely thoughtful and caring feedback from other posters. I know this is a complicated topic, and these people deserve and need attention and help, but I wish just they would help themselves. I feel like stepping away from Era and its negativity would probably do them some good. It's just all so tiresome. I think I'm done with the forum, checking it out of a daily reflex doesn't add anything positive to my life tbh.
Because you're okay with a rapist who will make sure sexual assault is considered nothing? Okay. Continue to ignore the protection and rights of victims by letting Trump win. I'm sure all victims of sexual assault will feel great when Trump is president.
"I don't wanna hear any of you survivors of sexual assault who refuse to vote for a rapist complaining about the rapist who's in power." Quite frankly, you can eat shit.
Hey all, This is not me being the OP. This is just a single, centralized place to discuss what's become a fairly hot-button topic here so we don't get a slew of threads, counter-threads, etc. etc. In short, the positions we've seen outlined are : Voting is important, all the way up and all the way down the ticket, for reasons of power and politics. The Republicans represent an existential threat to the wellbeing of millions of vulnerable Americans in a way the Democrats simply do not, even a Democrat like Joe Biden. Biden still has a very long way down to go until he's half so bad as Trump. Ergo, it's your responsibility to vote for him, even if you find him incredibly objectionable (which some people disagree with in the first place), simply because the other guy is that much worse. Not doing so, in this model, is an expression of privilege, as a typically blue voter sitting out is, in our 2 party, system, effectively the same as a nonvoter switching sides. A vote is a personal expression of conscience and morality based on an evaluation of each candidate individually. Joe Biden is being accused of sexual assault. He voted for the Iraq War, and he voted against bussing, and he voted for the crime bill, and many other things beside. His platform is insufficient to face the coming climate and economic crises of the coming decades. Trump being terrible is irrelevant, because Biden has made himself ineligible by default. Ergo, demanding that people vote for him is a blind expression of partisanship at best and a cruel act of violence at worst, as you force people hurt by Biden and people like Biden to lend their support. This last part can be especially important. There's a great deal of trauma wrapped up in that. Don't vote for Biden, but vote downballot. In this argument, voting is a political position, but it allows more for the understanding of a vote as a personal expression as well. By splitting this difference, it comes to a course of action: namely, Trump is unacceptable, but so is Biden, ergo, just vote for the downballot candidates in an effort to staunch the bleeding should Trump win a second term. There are most likely more positions than this. If you feel like I've misconstrued one of the arguments, by all means, correct me; I'm doing my best to give a fair assessment to each. Discussion guidelines are as follows:
this seems like a proxy issue and not a Bernie problem directly. I don’t hate Nina but she is just a terrible tv spokesperson- not to mention she keeps hiring dumpster fire pals. A few times i watched her get hyper animated at Ridiculous or insulting questions and fight thunderously with pundits - but over the years I realized that’s her default setting they should keep her off camera because she also gets combative and angry over really generic and milquetoast stuff. If she’s a genius organizer just have her do that. if Bernie wins this is going to become even more important because his campaign is going to have to reach other candidates folks and even what pathetic remnants of turnable gop voters stillexist
There have been a lot of masks coming off lately, but then the past half a year or so of this forum has been mostly one new garbage development after another, so I'm not surprised.
Thank god the real world isn't like Era. People are much friendly and less morbid in real life. It's probably your social anxiety making you feel dissociated.
Couldn't this news come out 1 year ago? 6 months ago? I do not think this was pre-planned, at all, but gosh if she picked a bad moment...
This is the same DNC and Biden campaign that urged people to go out and vote during a pandemic. That it was okay. They won’t do anything unless under extreme pressure. Hopefully the news outlets will help with that
Didn't you get banned before for "it's not pedophilia, it's ephebophilia" ?
It's exactly the kind of leadership that is needed at this time.Yeah but they're brown and foreign and weren't gonna vote for Hillary so they do not matter at all. Unless Trump was the one who ordered the bombings in which case then we can pretend to care about their deaths. The constantly shifting goalposts when it comes to US imperialism on this forum shows a staggering lack of empathy for other human beings.
0118 999 881 999 119 725 This show is bloody amazing! Also Richmond is by far the best character of the bunch, very wise to not overuse him. Same with the original CEO.This episode had my crying with laughter to be honest, from the start I was expecting that he just didn't pay much attention. And while questionable, the fight scene and the following: "WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!" had me in tears. I can't believe how they even came up with half of these situations. But I must've missed what Linehan did, what happened?It's a shame, except for the finale, the entire show was recorded in SD. It's unfortunate that the BBC took their sweet time adapting to HD. Many shows weren't adapted into HD until well into 2009/2010. Hell the 2010 episodes of this show were still recorded in SD, it took this show until 2013 before it got HD.
Probably help if we just waited and let this play out however it does. It seriously seems like a ton of people have made their minds up already and I can’t help but think a ton of it relates to people hating Joe Biden’s guts vs supporting a rape victim. Shows even more when people say they’re abandoning the Democratic Party or not voting if these allegations go nowhere or they don’t get the result they’re looking towards. Heaven forbid we wait until mainstream journalists do their sourcing and see what they found.
It's shit. I don't want it to happen and I get why it's upsetting. I hope Biden loses the primary. But if it comes down to Biden vs Trump, not voting won't stop a rapist from being elected. Have you considered how people who suffer under all the shit Trump is doing that Biden isn't would feel with the message that you don't think alleviating they're suffering is worthwhile if your own isn't alleviated as well?
Did she come out when Obama announced Biden as his VP? Edit:not try to defend Biden, just curious as a outsider of U.S politics, it reminds me of so if this scandal continues to develop and Biden still becomes Democrat candidate, should he resign or get impeached even he beats Trump?
Did anyone read this part in the article? Apparently this lady posted this a while back. I am not saying the rape didn't happen or that Biden is innocent. In fact there is plenty of evidence of him being a creep. But the timing of this along with her history makes me think it's not just because she suddenly got the courage to face Biden now. There might be other motivations.
Yes, everyone preparing for the worst case scenario in the midst of a global pandemic that is inevitably going to cause massive civil unrest just wants to shoot black people. Fucking galaxy brain take, right there.
What are the mods doing in this thread? Its not transphobia to say that it is NOT a simple question whether trans athletes should be able to compete in women's leagues. I think the question should be asked on a sport by sport basis. In MOST cases its not an issue. For contact sports with lots of injuries I'd probably lean more on the side of not having them compete or asking the athlete to compete in a mens league instead. Fully expecting to get banned for having a nuanced position here though...
Why are these people being insta-banned for a month? It's sad that I have to worry that me even asking this makes me worried I'll get banned as well. Is this site taking the stand that thinking in any way that trans-women competing in with women opens the door to unfair advantages is necessarily transphobic? Can somebody not have the view that the intention behind separations of genders was meant to be around the practical understanding that male and female physiology is different and that can matter in sports. And is it transphobic to recognize that transition does not always remove these physiological differences? Like, I'll admit that I'm not as familiar as those who are going through these transitions, not anywhere close. But I am under the understanding that transition isn't the same for everybody. This is entirely separate from whatever the transphobic Trump administration is trying to do and I don't really believe they are coming to anything here with any good intentions. But to me, the insta-month long ban on this is alarming. I am under the perception here that you can expect swift bans here now in a very inconsistent way. Not that I would necessarily want the exact same thing to happen with black issues, but it is clear that there is much more waffling on the moderation on those issues.