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Revelation34 posted...

Most of them were probably false reports. Especially if it was people reporting the anime thread.

Here's a crazy concept: the more draconian and wide your ToU, the more work it creates for the mods! When you leave shit up to vague concepts like, "well, it offended somebody...." it makes way more innocuous posts open to being moddable. If there were actual reasonable hard lines (no nudity, no insulting other users, etc...) and things were otherwise free reign, the mods' jobs would be a lot easier, and it'd be much simpler to identify people maliciously using the report function to just harass and target other posters and punish them, instead.

But nah....let's do the opposite.

pazzy posted...

Geez. So did any of those allegations have any truth to them or are people just crazy?

She straight out plotted the scheme w/ someone else and they have her texts saying as much.

EDIT: Oh, this is a different woman from the first one! Wow...

--Zero- posted...

Whats funny is the mods who do this for free could always just ignore things like horny posting, but thats too much to ask for.

One of the supposed reasons for the changes was too much work for the mods (like how CE being one of the biggest sources for moderations was mentioned), so what do they do?
Massively and ludicrously expand the dragnet of what's against the rules, so there's all sorts of previously ok topics and posts that are now being targeted and shut down by the mods.
It's all such fucking bull shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak4on5uTaTg

I don't think I've ever encountered so much glorious sarcasm per minute in my entire life, lol

Note: This is about a construction project, it is not politics. So there.

Price varies wildly depending on the shape.

A standard size rectangular window, even a fairly large one, is like a few hundred bucks. The labor cost to remove and install is probably close to the material cost.

But once you get fancy w/ circular, rounded, those giant "gallery" view windows that pop out from the siding, etc... shit gets crazy expensive. Like well into the thousands per window.

Even if it's "only" $300 parts and labor b/c it's a basic rectangular window, it still would suck to replace, though.

Antifar posted...

I would take this site's reporting with a big grain of salt given that I best know them for making shit up about the murder of George Floyd
https://bsky.app/profile/radleybalko.bsky.social/post/3kpzkst2ufi2i

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-free-press-bias/

Overall, we rate The Free Press as Right-Center biased based on editorial positions that are moderately critical of the left. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing of information and a clean fact check record.

There's video of the incident embedded in the article, too.

https://www.thefp.com/p/american-anti-war-activists-cheer?utm_source=tfptwitter

About 300 anti-war activists crowded into the basement of the Teamsters Unions headquarters on Saturday to hear organizers from all over the country describe their plans to disrupt the Democratic National Convention this August. Joe Bidens backing of Israel since Hamass October 7 attack has turned these left-wing radicals against their own party.

Its really inspiring to see that people are just as enthusiastic, and maybe even more enthusiastic, to march on the DNC as they are to march on the RNC, says Omar Flores, a Milwaukee-based activist. We can thank Genocide Joe and our movement for that.

But then a man stumbles to the podium, wiping sweat from his forehead. He grabs the microphone to announce that the Islamic regime of Iran has launched missiles and drones heading straight toward Israel.

They believe that they will be in PalestinianI dont call it Israeliairspace between two and four a.m., which means about two to four hours from now, he says. In addition, there are reports of drones having been fired on Israel from Yemen and Iraq.

The crowd, all wearing black N95s, erupts into applause. Someone in the back lowers their mask to send a celebratory whistle soaring throughout the room.

The man at the podium, Hatem Abudayyeh, heads the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, a purported community group which, on information and belief, is an affiliate of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a designated terror organization based in Gaza, according to a lawsuit over the alleged relations between U.S. advocacy groups and Hamas.

This is when this country and the world needs us because the United States is going to, quote unquote, defend the criminal Israeli state, says Abudayyeh, whose home was raided by the FBI in 2010 as part of an investigation concerning the material support of terrorism.

We have to assume that the United States is going to try to retaliate against Iran.

After the boos and calls of shame subside, Abudayyeh says it is incumbent upon Americans to stop the United States from expanding this war and hitting Iran.

Weve got to be the strong, powerful anti-war movement that we are, he says, placing the microphone down and exiting the stage.

The crowd immediately began chanting, Hands off Iran.

A woman in a hot pink gas mask, wielding a matching neon cane and dressed in a Protect Trans Kids t-shirt, throws her fist in the air. Nearby, a service poodle is taking a nap under the chair of his owner, who is wearing a leather harness over his t-shirt. Then the group that has joined here from cities across AmericaSeattle, Washington, D.C., Los Angelescheers and claps in celebration.

Joe Iosbaker, an organizer with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, which called October 7 a good turn of events in its press release about the terrorist attacks, tells me he supports Iran. His organization has since released a statement backing Iran, where citizens gathered to shout Death to America during their nations strike against Israel Saturday night.

We demand hands off Iran, the statement says. The people have power, and we will exercise it in the streets.

Earlier that day, before news of the attack broke, at a breakout session on the anti-war movement, Shabbir Rizvi, an organizer with Anti-War Committee Chicago, taught participants how to chant death to Israel and death to America in Farsi.

Marg bar Israel, he chanted, leading a group of about 80 attendees along with him. A man draped in a Soviet flag bearing a gold hammer and sickle clapped his hands.

A man in a full black denim outfit shouted out behind his N95Can we get a marg bar America?
We can get a marg bar America, Rizvi replied.

Then Rizvi raised his hand in the air, leading the crowd like a conductor.

Marg bar America, they cheered.

On my way out of the event, I ask a woman smoking a cigarette to fill me in on the latest news regarding Irans lobbing of missiles and drones, which were later intercepted with help from forces from France, the U.S., and the UK. Iran said its strike was retaliation for Israels hit on the Iranian embassy in Syria earlier this month, which destroyed the consulate building next to the embassy and killed two of Tehrans top commanders, and that the matter is concludedunless Israel hits back.

Iran is part of the resistance, said the woman, who flew in that morning from New Orleans, where shes been part of an effort to disrupt Israel-bound shipments in her hometown. Yemen and Iran and Hezbollah, who are also a militant group in Lebanon, and the Syrian government are all parts of the arc of resistance.

A smile creeps across her face as she tells me: Theyre part of the arc of resistance because the enemies are Israel and the USA.

Was it really necessary to provide a half hour later update that it dropped another 0.01 points, especially when you were still within the window to just edit your prior post w/ the newer near-identical graph?

ROBANN_88 posted...

Youtube is being dumbasses, and shutting down the Reporting from Ukraine guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v063wuJtM0

WTF?
Like... how dare he post his videos for multiple languages?
Fuck youtube, fuck google
My god, it just feels like the past few weeks/months have been an unrelenting god damned barrage on our internet rights and norms, with shit continuing to get worse.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1c4ptb5/bay_area_commute_nightmare_as_protests_block/

"Protest" working as intended! All the cancer patients and doctors to treat them sounding off in the comments sure do appreciate your efforts!

https://reason.com/2022/07/06/blocking-a-highway-is-not-a-legitimate-or-effective-form-of-protest/

The typical reply is that protests aren't meant to be convenient. That's true. And the father of civil disobedienceMartin Luther King, Jr.did it too, right?

Except no, not really. Though King did lead a protest from Selma to Montgomery, famously filling the Edmund Pettus Bridge, it was a march. It did not block interstate and highway traffic indefinitely for the sake of ita tactic King was not comfortable with, despite pressure in the 1960s to get on board. "Even though King didn't come out and criticize it in public, in private he thought it was a misguided tactic," said Brandon Terry, assistant professor of African and African American Studies and Social Studies at Harvard University. "The NAACP thought it was ridiculous." King reportedly posited that such a move pushed the boundaries of acceptable demonstrations and would come back to bite the movement politically.

I wonder how much pollution all of this caused? I wonder if any new parolees got fucked over by these road/bridge blockings? How many cancr patients missed critical appointments?
It's fascinating how the left will gleefully throw literally every other cause they care about under the bus, if they can get some publicity virtue signaling for Palestine.

That RFK Jr. topic that was created 6 fucking days before the dumb fuck announcement is closed and TC is "not an active member".

The draconian crackdown on politics and even more so "horny posting" (which apparently means, "anything that a single person reports as such") is so god damned extreme, it's like they're trying to speed run a tumblr-fication of this site's user numbers.

It seems like tech companies have been trying to kill forums and message boards for like a decade now.
I fucking hate it. I can't stand the Discord, twitter, etc... forms of social media and communication. It's just a chaotic fucking mess.
But one by one, message boards keep getting shuttered.

Related and almost as bad was all the websites closing the in-house comments sections on their articles and instead having no discussion at all or outsourcing it to Discus or something.

Lokarin posted...

Ya, they're hittin me with moderations.... i better lock this before they find it.

This topic existed before the announcement!
If they lock it, it's fucked up enough. But to retroactively punish you for rules that didn't fucking exist 24 hours ago is insane

Kradek posted...

Whoa, that was fast. I wonder if he's the first victim of the new policy?

Skiggie got suspended like within minutes of the new policy.
I'm not even sure his topic (safe for IG, too hot for GameFAQs!) was made after the announcement or before it.
Fandom are fucking evil nazi prudes.

Fuck censorship. Fuck Fandom.

Fuck Mike Johnson for doing his best to doom the aid bill

Enclave posted...

Would be better if instead of a week it was a year so that they would already be blocked from returning to this board.

Nah, it doesn't matter. Even if you have access to this board, the horny is banned anyway.

I do kind of want to start spamming political topics now, just as a form of protest and malicious compliance. Like holy shit, this pisses me off. I never even participated in or replied to the horny topics much, but the fact they're apparently too much for PrudeFAQs is such fucking bull shit

Light sentence, but at least she's going to jail.

Tyranthraxus posted...

What about Alec Baldwin himself? It's ultimately the person firing a gun to make sure it's safe. Just taking someone else's word that it's not loaded is one of the most irresponsible things you can do.

Completely disagree.
He's just an actor, he probably knows fucking nothing about guns, which is specifically why they hire an armorer. It's her job. She hands him the gun, ready to use. She's supposed to check it, it's literally her entire job.

Suolevram posted...

Aaaaaand someone closed the Booty Thread. They were serious about no more hornyposting

DKBananaSlamma posted...

Boob thread is locked too

Even feet is too much for the prude mods to handle. Even the fucking Amish can handle seeing feet, lol

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Tumblr lost 97% of its value within like a year by banning "horny" content.
You'd think that would have taught people a lesson, but the stupid are incapable of learning.

But hey, they want to make CE a safe space for new users...who literally cannot join or view CE...so they have to censor it for these literally impossible nonexistent new users.

slacker03150 posted...

Did I miss an announcement?

Edit: I did miss an announcement. A stupid one. What do they define as politics? They want to center talk around video games? We have a presidential candidate blaming gun violence on video games. Can we not talk about that or how potential bills could affect upcoming games? Polls aren't gaming related, social boards aren't gaming related, most of the special interest boards aren't gaming related.

For those who didn't know:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/6-gamefaqs-announcements/80747432

So fucking stupid

WTF?

The "horny" topics are dropping like flies and the TC's getting banned.
They "clarified" it's only when people make creepy comments on pics, then went after a bunch of topics where it was just pictures that the women themselves post to their IG and such. But.... gotta fight that dreaded "mail gays", god forbid if people actually look at those pictures! Gotta protect the children! Or something...

Well, that's fucking abhorrent. And just in time to take effect when Texas blatantly rigs the election for Trump to stop people from protesting about it.

Only silver lining is that now any time a MAGA protest happens in those states, it'll be super easy to use this against them. Might force the courts to backtrack when they see the unintended consequences (ie, used against the right-wing)

Other: Ressentiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ressentiment

EDIT: I should've just searched "ressentiment trump", lol

https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/commstudiespapers/223/

Abstract
This essay contributes to and reframes the preliminary scholarly assessments of President Donald J. Trumps appeals to rage, malice, and revenge by sketching the rhetorical dimensions of an underlying emotional-moral framework in which victimization, resentment, and revenge are inverted civic virtues. I elaborate on the concept of ressentiment (re-sentiment), a condition in which a subject is addled by rage and envy yet remains impotent, subjugated and unable to act on or adequately express frustration. Though anger and resentment capture part of Trumps aective register, I suggest that ressentiment accounts for the unique intersection where powerful sentiments and self-serving morality are coupled with feelings of powerlessness and ruminations on past injuries. Thus, shifting focus from the rhetoric of resentment to that of ressentiment explains how Trump is able to sustain the aective charge of animus without forfeiting the moral high ground of victimhood to his audiences oppressors Democrats, the press, criminals, immigrants, foreign adversaries, welfare recipients, the Me Too movement, globalists, and racial Others.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/game-thrones-actor-joseph-gatt-162511515.html

Unbeknownst to Gatt, throughout this time Jane Doe was an admittedly obsessed fan who was already using a naked picture of Gatt a still image from his appearance on the television show Banshee that Jane Doe herself had apparently sought out and downloaded from the internet as her phones lock screen even before Gatt had ever had any interaction with her, the court docs state. Gatt also learned much later that Jane Doe had professed that she had sexual dreams involving Gatt, and had also apparently downloaded from the internet pictures of Gatt from his appearance on the television show Z Nation and photoshopped a fake tattoo of her own name onto Gatts right bicep.

The complaint lay out that Gatt hired a personal investigator who he wanted to present his own findings in court, only for the case to be voluntarily dismissed in February. It alleges that the L.A. District Attorneys office threatened Gatt and his personal investigator with jail time if they made their findings public.

According to the complaint, Gatt had to sell his Ford Shelby GT 500 car in order pay for his legal fees because he has not worked since his arrest. Gatt believes his career is now in shambles based on nothing more than facially untrustworthy pictures of a phone screen and the unverified word of an obsessed fan and claims he has suffered immeasurable mental anguish and emotional distress that made him physically ill as a result of this situation.

Some additional details on the "evidence" that led the LA prosecutors to make his life hell for 2 years and threats they made against him.

It's appalling how little media attention this is getting.

YellowSUV posted...

Remember how one of the first actions the Islamic Republic of Iran took was to capture over 50 innocent people in an embassy and hold them as hostages?

I'm starting to think Iran might not really care about the sanctity of embassies.

Indeed.

Nver forget they intentionally dragged it out to cost Carter the election, then released them after Reagan won.
Iran in 2024 is trying to truly turn Biden into the next Carter, as he's often compared to.

crayola555 posted...

He'll probably get clapped in Chinese prisons anyway

If we're really lucky, they'll just send him to a North Korean labor camp

CADE_FOSTER posted...

nah fuck that no more trading for morons that willingly go to china and russia

This. We need to be proactive this time, and the second he appears in China, start an online petition to NOT save his ass, so it has time to garner a few million signatures before Biden does a stupid.

(side note: did Biden ever restore the "We The People" website after Trump took it down?)

Raiden2909 posted...

is this the dumb ass who kept trying to push his luck in Japan and got arrested multiple times

Not just Japan.
Also Israel and (I think) Thailand.
He's on a one-man mission to get Americans banned from every country.

Parul is a real one.
Scotty Boa needs to STFU

Yes, please go to China, Johnny! It's a great idea! Fuck the haters!

I remember them being in the Super Mario cartoon and will always have a soft spot in my heart for them b/c of it.

Honestly they were just ahead of their time. A lot of "musicians" now autotune the shit out of their vocals and/or blatantly silently lip synch to pre-recorded music that's (allegedly) their own voice during concerts, and no one cares.

I did always wonder though... the scandal was w/ the company and the imposters using other peoples' music, so.... why did the band just die instead of the actual singers getting to continue w/ the popularity and success their music had garnered? People obviously liked their music, why didn't they get to become big name artists after the truth came out?

Eurobeat is a guilty pleasure of mine and the most prominent singer for it, Max Coveri / Niko / like a dozen other aliases, straight up has a "body double" pretend to be him and lip synch the songs for public appearances and concerts, lol

solosnake posted...

vehicles with over 100k miles selling for more than $10,000 seems crazy to me. Anything less than 100k miles shoots up to $15-20,000+

Might as well just buy a new car these days

That's what I ended up doing a few months ago. With the dealer incentives for financing thru them, it basically comes out the same price.

Happened the last time I went shopping for a car a little over a decade ago, too. Fully intended to buy a (lightly) used car; found the prices fucking absurd and ended up paying around the same for a new car as the used would've cost. Back then, they were claiming some mix of "cash for clunkers" and one of the hurricanes (Irene?) removing tons of cars from inventory as the reason used cars cost so much.

Car shopping isn't something I look into very often, so I wonder, "is there always some excuse, or do all the times I need a car just happen to perfectly line up w/ used car prices spiking?"

Scardude posted...

This means trump is losing money too?

More like "making less money".
It cost him nothing to create Truth Social, nor did he put in any work to create it. It's literally just a giant pile of money falling into his lap for existing, and now he's getting 60% less (and dropping!) of the initial inflated "value" it had during the Pump phase. We are now in the Dump phase.
Entirely possible he'll try to dupe his rube followers into a 2nd Pump right before the 6 month delay before he can sell his shares kicks in, which would be close to election time when he has the most media attention possible, so there's a good chance he'll pull off a 2nd pump & dump and escape w/ more cash. He'd also piss off his own people right before the election, but...they're gimps who'll take it, let's be honest.

Imagine being the two dumb schmucks that did all the work making the site and offered Trump 90% of the stock just to slap his name on it, who only get less than 5% of the stock each.

They'll be lucky if their hours of work amass enough to afford a week of groceries by the time the stock "bottoms out". Actually, Trump's suing them b/c 90% just wasn't enough, so they'll be lucky if they don't end up w/ a net negative income after all the legal fees!

Lord_Ephraim posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/10-ask-the-mods/80681720

"I want to make two new accounts for different purposes."

lol, holy shit. great detective work!

I went to check when they were created to match w/ w/ the date of that post, but it seems both accounts are now gone.
Literally must've deleted them right after I had tagged them, before I saw this topic.

The tag was "sad Humble brag" if you were curious

Fenriswolf posted...

Mate, you just came out of a suspension for shilling for Israel. You know what they say about glass houses?

Once again lying about me.

UndefeatedGOAT posted...

mods should lock these threads

Nah, they should just fairly enforce the ToU and get rid of the people shitting it up.
But they've gotten a proud track record of not doing that, so...

Shadow_Don posted...

Pretty sure I got modded for calling one of these guys a tankie and China shill

The mods will never do jack shit about these posters, but GOD FORBID if you call a spade a spade. Then they're so quick to act, you'd think they were special forces.

"Florida Woman Crystal Methvin arrested for possession of crystal meth"

https://www.wbrz.com/news/woman-named-crystal-methvin-arrested-for-crystal-meth/

MarcyWarcy posted... really scary how every day i seem to see one more person i generally considered to be overall ok on here revealing they're perfectly fine with brown people being massacred as long as democrats tell them they shouldnt worry about it

Really scary how the left has been brainwashed into seeing Israel/Palestine as a conflict between "white colonizers" and "brown people".
The US Census considers all of the Middle East to be "white", and Israelis have just as long a residence and claim to the region as Palestinians do.
Many don't agree with the official Census categorization, and that's fine. I'm just pointing out that....if one of the two groups is "brown", then both are.
The rhetoric is blatantly racist and hate speech, but is allowed and endorsed by Western institutions.

https://www.thecrimson.com/column/dining-on-sacred-cow/article/2012/11/16/Lispon-Israel-race/

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/17/1079181478/us-census-middle-eastern-white-north-african-mena

Kradek posted...

Not cheering them on, however as Israel would say "they have a right to defend themselves". I just hope Iran's interpretation of that statement isn't the same as Israel's, cause I'm not down to see 33k dead Israelis.

Fucking disgusting post.
Also, Palestinians are Iranians now?

Pogo_Marimo posted...

This is a shockingly myopic view of the proxy war that's been orchestrated by Iran for the last two decades.

In a broad sense, there are two types of nations in the Middle East. Stable nations with functional economies who collaborate with the international community. This is your Saudi Arabias, Israels, Iraqs, Qatars, Omans, ect.

Then there are you broken states run by fundamentalist military juntas or terrorist organizations. They have nearly non-existant economies and their only significant interactions with the international communities is exporting raw resources and taking international aid. This is your Yemens, Syrias, Jordans, ect.

Essentially every stable country hates Iran, and every broken country works with Iran. This is because Iran has been funnelling tons of weapons, ammo, and military advisors into the hands of the absolute worst actors in basically every cobflict zone in the Middle East, including Hezbollah and Hamas, which is directly relevant to Israel. Iran is an enemy to stability and peace in the region. There is simply no other way to put it.

Iran has essentially been firing rockets into Israel for literal decades now. Think of all the Israeli deaths that Iran is directly responsible for over the years. If there was no Iran, there would be no massive Hamas terrorist attack. They would not have had the weapons and training necessary to embolden them so, and the likely explicit backing of Iran behind the scenes. While I fundamentally disagree with Israel's approach to Palestine, it is utterly absurd and hypocritical to look at this situation and say "Well, Israel should have just not provoked Iran!"

Great post, though Jordan belongs in the former group.

Bio1590 posted...

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2024/04/09/dearborn-mayor-rejects-death-to-america-chants-at-protest/73254682007/

Totally normal people

Man, I just don't understand why Biden won't capitulate to their demands and beg for their votes! /s

BadKarma_JT posted...

The ideal scenario would be for both sides to wipe each other out. There is no room for religious fanatic nations. It's also the only scenario that secures long term peace in the region, let it escalate amongst themselves.

What the fuck?!

Irony posted...

Clock Tower is already getting revived

Yeah, but the person in charge of the revival is a fucking monster, so it'd be nice to have a redo on that one.

Shadow_Don posted...

Strangely leaving out the undisputed fact that Iran is the primary backers of hamas

Or that Iran is the #1 proponent of the sanctity of embassies and consulates.
No, divert your lying eyes from the fact they had a clown car of Islamic Revolutionary Guard members in a "civilian" building near the border with Israel!
Just remember it was still a consulate building on paper, no matter what it was being used for in reality, and that Iran values the sanctity of consulates and embassies more than any other nation in the history of Earth!
They would NEVER attack one themselves as long as you ignore history before 1981

Lobbing hundreds of drones and cruise missiles at an entire country, across the airspace of other countries without their consent, is "remarkably mature".

It never ceases to amaze me, the levels to which Iran gets a fucking pass for everything it does.

"It's ok, Israel and the US spent billions of dollars to protect civilians from their reckless attack!" (which was far from guaranteed to prevent any casualties, since a massive barrage overloading the missile defense systems' capacity is exactly the sort of scenario it's most likely to let some through) is somehow a perfectly valid excuse.

Tropicalwood posted...

Remember, it was the courts that made up immunity to cover their own asses.

Oh, I know.

At least six freeloaders broke into Ramsays York and Albany hotel and gastropub, which is for sale for $16.1 million, boarded up the windows, locked the door with kitchen utensils and glued the locks.

The chef is trying to sign over the building in a multi-million-dollar deal, The Sun reports. Ramsay stars in the "Hell's Kitchen, The American Dream" reality show and Next Level Chef on Fox.

Shocking photographs show the squatters holed up in the trendy pub, one of whom can be seen barefoot and sprawled across on a black leather sofa.

A group of "professional squatters" have taken over a U.K. pub owned by celebrity chef Gordan Ramsay, left, and are threatening legal action against being evicted.

Another slipper-wearing occupier was scrolling his smartphone with tobacco, empty water bottles and wine glasses on the floor around him. A blue sleeping bag was dumped on another sofa while a pair of crutches were also visible.

The squatters also slapped up a "legal warning" sign on the front door defending their takeover and cautioned against any eviction attempts, The Sun reports.

The invaders say they have a right to be there, since it is not a residential building.

The occupation of a persons non-residential property without their permission is not itself a crime in the U.K., though police can take action if crimes are subsequently committed, including damaging the property or stealing from it, according to Wales Online.

So... the police going to put down the donuts and get on this, or what?
Pretty sure gluing the fucking locks counts as damaging the property and drinking the wine is stealing.