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1  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: April 23, 2024, 11:18:54 PM
Hostile military alliance creeping toward their border is not enough reason to think about bad intentions?

Is that the same "hostile military alliance" that has gotten even closer to "their border" in the last couple of years? Such victory. Afghanistan 2.0 but more stupider.

Back up your words or stop attempting to fool people. Find any major news outlets that claim that Ukraine is doing good at the front (overall not some marginal local victory), then we'll see who's cherry picking.

Why the fuck would I waste my time with your straw people. Seems like your brain damage is getting worse, you're not even trying to tell the difference between reality and your fantasy world.
2  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: [BPIP] Bitcointalk Public Information Project [Back in Action] on: April 23, 2024, 11:06:31 PM
Possible DDoS attack?

They have had a few in the past. I wouldn't be surprised if some loser out there was trying to pull it off again.

Not sure, usually DDOSers wouldn't give up so quickly. I don't see anything suspicious in the logs so can't really tell yet what was happening.
3  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: April 22, 2024, 11:31:02 PM
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LOL cherry season still in full swing apparently. Anything to avoid thinking as to why you need those cherries to begin with.
4  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Publicly held Trump trials - ongoing on: April 22, 2024, 10:49:55 PM
You misunderstand about the whole thing. The only reason why the evil Biden people failed to destroy you is because it takes a long time for anybody to destroy the good that Trump did in his first term. But there are a whole bunch of other people around the world that Trump didn't have enough time to protect from the Biden Team and the Deep State.

You should really be praying to your lucky stars - or whatever you pray to - that Trump gets in, in 2024. If he does, you just might have a chance to go on living before the Biden Team takes you and bunch of the rest of us out.

Good one. I doubt anyone could possibly be this dumb, but if you're not joking then I'm gonna vote for Biden at least three times just to see you scared shitless of him sending Kamala to "take you out" (for dinner I presume).
5  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Publicly held Trump trials - ongoing on: April 22, 2024, 06:20:04 PM
If Trump is a loser, who would you suggest for the Presidency?

For you - no one. Trump is the second coming of Jesus. Make sure to give all your life savings to him because he's very rich and doesn't need your money.

You can easily see that the only reason why there are any Trump trials is that the opposition is so unpopular, that the only way they have a chance of winning among Americans is if they lie and cheat. Consider that they themselves, and thousands or millions of other Americans have done the same kinds of things that Trump has been accused of... and often much worse. But nobody else is facing the kinds of accusations that Trump is.

Millions of Americans have cheated on their spouses with porn stars and illegally paid $130k to said porn stars? And stored stolen top secret documents in their bathrooms? Seems unlikely. And if that were true it still wouldn't make it not a crime. If a guy in the trailer next door kills his wife, it doesn't make it right for you to kill yours - that's some free legal advice for you.

Time to wake up and realize that you are on the side of death and destruction when you are against Trump. If Trump loses, and Biden-Team-like people win, they will overtake and destroy everything, even you. How blind are you that you are in favor of your own destruction?

Well, the evil Biden people had nearly 4 years to destroy me and failed miserably, so you're probably full shit on that one just like on everything else. Good to see that some things never change on this shithole of a forum.
6  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Publicly held Trump trials - ongoing on: April 22, 2024, 11:40:58 AM
Prediction: Judge pauses trial for graduation. Trump does something else.

Even if he does go to the graduation (which I can't imagine Barron being happy about) he'll probably try to turn into a political rally, what with all the reporters following him around.

I wonder if the Republicans are getting tired of Trump in general. The vote in the house today in favour of Ukraine included 100 Republicans, which is a lot of Republicans voting specifically against what Trump has said many times in public. This may be tiredness with all his misbehaviour and the ongoing trials, or simply the do not want to play game with the looser.

No, still no. He's a loser but he's their only option. They gave in on Ukraine because it's not a big campaign issue for Trump. But I doubt they'll do anything about the border for example.
7  Other / Off-topic / Re: Foxpup's Merit Cycling Club 🦊 🔥 🔞 5th Anniversary Foxhole Exhibition [NSFW] on: March 22, 2024, 11:06:51 AM
Damn, I'm late to the party as usual.

Maybe that's a good thing because I'm temporarily unable to consume alcoholic beverages, and surviving this orgy sober might have been a challenge.

Oh well, there is always next year.
8  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Trump is senile (and Biden is not) on: March 12, 2024, 02:20:35 AM
To be fair, Trump has always been cognitively impaired AKA dumb as a bag of rocks, surrounding himself by people too afraid to tell him that. Not much to do with being old... perhaps it's getting a bit worse lately, hard to tell, I can't listen to him for more than 10 seconds.

It doesn't matter though. He can shit his pants on prime time TV and not lose any voters.
9  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🏈 The United Football League (UFL) 2024 Thread 🏈 on: March 11, 2024, 11:20:34 PM
Is there a way to watch this without a $200 cable package?
10  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: March 11, 2024, 01:21:00 PM
How did NVIDIA go up 1961.91% in the past 5 years? In 10 years, they went from $4.49 to $875. That's 10 times more than their revenue increased. I don't get it.

Totally my fault, I bought like 500 of their GPUs LOL
11  Economy / Reputation / Re: What Sort of Signature is "FUCK Royse777"? on: February 24, 2024, 01:16:43 AM
Whatever the OP's intention was with this, I don't think we should believe everything he says. Even with this "evidence" he provided (which is easily faked, by the way). It seems to me that he just wants free promotion for his questionable service offerings.

This sounds far fetched. OP hasn't been involved in any of the forum dramas or trolling or spamming their service so I'd give them the benefit of the doubt that this offer indeed happened.

Sounds like maybe some sort of an onlyfans promotion maybe? Who knows what people are into behind the scenes. It seems that vulgar language in a signature is probably not the best way to promote something, but what do I know… I’d question why someone would pay for that, but money talks…

Sounds like you can't read.
12  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: February 23, 2024, 09:58:09 PM
it would be so stupid to shot your own A-50 given that Ukraine does not have such a plane???

They've been hallucinating Ukraine being full of nazis, so...
13  Other / Politics & Society / Re: dump the Trump? on: February 20, 2024, 06:19:12 PM
Sure "bases" want Trump, but are they going to have to pay Trump-mistake sized prices?

Some will, and as long as Trump can milk at least some part of the base - he will continue to pretend that he's running for president and the Republican establishment will have no choice but to pretend that they support him because they think they can't win without that part of the base. Trump running as independent would be their worst nightmare, and you know he'd do it just to spite everyone.

Is there a chance a guilty declaration is where an important percentage of the Republican base draws the line?

There have been many chances to draw all sorts of lines... never happened, won't happen now.
14  Other / Politics & Society / Re: dump the Trump? on: February 20, 2024, 01:38:00 PM
U.S politics kinda confuse me I am not gonna lie. It is like common knowledge now that Trump is probably one of the worst candidates for president out there yet a lot still support him. Is there really no other candidate that can hold up republicans’ belief, ideologies, and values other than Trump himself?

Populists exist everywhere. Bernie Sanders is a populist and got quite close to getting a nomination in 2016. But Trump has the advantage of Republicans deliberately dumbing down their base with FUD since 1980s at least.

none from the candidates running seem to be the best pick. I have heard Americans advocates for just voting for the lesser evil which in the previous election happened to be Biden. Now, lots of people despise Biden for his decisions. I come from a country with a different process of nominating presidency candidates. The presidential candidates are not limited to two only allowing for more options. I can not possibly imagine having to pick only between two people. It is not like you can not vote because if you don’t, the worse candidate may win.

There are primary elections where voters can pick from more than just two candidates. The actual presidential election in November is more similar to the second round of multi-candidate elections in other countries, when none of the candidates get 50%+ in the first round. And it's not like populists can't win in those multi-party elections...

Having said that, the electoral college bullshit is bullshit, and it should not exist in the 21st century. But that's a whole other story.

US is a very powerful country, home to a lot of powerful people and should be treated as such. US has such great influences around the world that a development in the US can for sure improve the lives in different countries as well. Can you imagine the USA led by a competent, decisive, and humble leader?

US is not in the business of improving lives in other countries so I don't think it would work that way regardless of who's the president. Obama bombed the shit out of other countries despite being reasonably "competent, decisive, and humble".

Ideally the US should focus in improving lives of people in the US (not vacuous MAGA nonsense but actual tangible stuff), and other countries should focus on improving themselves, but that requires actual effort so... unlikely.
15  Other / Politics & Society / Re: dump the Trump? on: February 20, 2024, 01:26:52 AM
Would it not be better to "dump the Trump"

Better for whom?

If anything, all these lawsuits make Trump a martyr for the "republican base", whatever that is these days. This is a very simple and easy to understand narrative - "swamp is attacking our hero".

And the "base" had a chance to choose less stupid candidates in the primaries but didn't.
16  Other / Politics & Society / Re: DeSantis Vows to Abolish IRS, Advocates Flat Tax in Presidential Bid Amidst Stif on: February 08, 2024, 06:56:29 PM
Those situations you just described actually sound borderline illegal, to be honest. Are you implying people in the United States need to have a private lawyer in order to buy a car with the peace of mind of not being scammed?  Sad

Don't need a lawyer, just need a functioning brain really. Except some people see the bling of a $100k pickup truck in neighbor's driveway and they think they MUST HAVE a bigger shinier one because that's how we roll. It is possible to pay with cash... however many (or most) people are addicted to debt so can't accept the possibility of living within their means and will agree to any scammy deal that allows them to have the shiny thing for "only $700 a month" (probably closer to $2000 for the aforementioned $100k pickup but I digress).

Nothing particularly wrong with borrowing money for a house or even for a car, if there are advantages of doing that (e.g. opportunity cost vs interest, or depreciation vs interest), it's when debt creates the illusion of being able to afford things that you can't really afford... that's when major issues happen, like the subprime crisis of 2008, and likely will cause the next bubble, and so on.

But you can't put math on your driveway to outbling your neighbors so people don't use math.

Americans have no idea how much power they've given their executive branch over the last decades. The IRS is just a weaponization tool against the common working man. The elites will pay whoever they need to pay to work around the system because they can afford it.

"common working man" likely pays a lot less to the IRS compared to state/county/city/sales/property taxes. That's where the real government grift happens but that's too complicated for a campaign slogan. Not that the convoluted federal tax forms couldn't use an overhaul, but the whole IRS obsession is more of a distraction from the absurd flustercuck of thousands of different tax jurisdictions trying to fuck you over whichever way they can because freedom.
17  Other / Politics & Society / Re: DeSantis Vows to Abolish IRS, Advocates Flat Tax in Presidential Bid Amidst Stif on: February 07, 2024, 12:36:04 AM
Question. I have read in The United States personal debt can be a serious matter, and a very crippling problem for many people who live in debt. How realistically it would be to say it has something to do with the personal mathematical pro-efficiency such person has to manage numbers in general?
I ask because to me, money management in a personal level is just matter of adding basic income and subtracting the expenses, the needs and wants, etc.
Would not be unfair to say people cannot do math and hence become involved in a very serious debt?
If that was true then you would be implying a very important percentage of the people of the United States cannot do math to a basic level. I would like to think that is just rather a stereotype foreigners have on them.  Sad

It might be an exaggeration that "most" can't do basic math but for sure "many" can't. And when it comes to money and debt, there are some shitty business practices, like selling big items with a focus on monthly payments and not on the total cost. For example if you buy a car, all you'll ever hear (unless you specifically ask the right questions) at a dealership is your monthly loan or lease payment. "Just put your signature on this disclosure page, it's fine, don't worry about the $20k interest and $10k in dealership fees, the monthly payment is still what you wanted it to be, because we extended your loan to 8 years".

But all the sketchy-borderline-fraud salesmanship aside, at the root of it all is people not doing math, whether they're too stupid or too lazy.
18  Other / Politics & Society / Re: DeSantis Vows to Abolish IRS, Advocates Flat Tax in Presidential Bid Amidst Stif on: February 06, 2024, 10:27:01 PM
but people would keep all their money. imagine how much more money people would have in their bank accounts. plus no more complicated tax returns. priceless

"much more money" LOL

No, most people would have less money, some people would have slightly more, all other things being equal. Most people can't math though and live in debt up to their ears, so it's possible that most people could think they have more money because their favorite politician said so.
19  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🏈🏈 The American Football Discussion Thread 🏈🏈 on: February 06, 2024, 07:56:30 PM
Is Taylor Swift a Pentagon asset?

Oh no, you've done it now. Black helicopters incoming. It was nice knowing you. I have no idea who this person or anyone in this thread is.
20  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: February 05, 2024, 07:34:23 PM
Wonderful and intriguing argument you put up there,the half of Europe you've mentioned were conquered by the Nazis and liberated by the soviets at huge costs of both man and machine,be mindful of the term liberated not fucked, the way you construct your argument not bringing to mind the question of why the soviets went there in the first place,if the Nazis didn't conquer all these parts of Germany why would the soviets March to all this countries,when have the soviets or Russians ever invaded other countries historically except in connection to when they were invade themselves like in the Napoleonic wars,the period after the Russian revolution when the us and Europe and Japan tried to invade Russia

Oh shit, if only we had something to compare against, like perhaps if the other half of Europe or even part of Germany itself was also liberated but not fucked. Unfortunately in your fantasy land everything west of Elbe is still ruled by Hitler apparently.

To put it into context,imagine if Russia trained and armed mexico or the cartels in mexico which is the united states standard modus operandi and engaged in a violent overthrow o the government there and then launched attacks to reclaim territories which are historically theirs say california, Texas killing tens of thousands of us citizens and killing and injuring tens of thousands of us servicemen what would the reaction be

Right, so in said fantasy land we have Ukraine attacking Russia and "reclaiming" territories since 2014 or even earlier, is that what you're trying to say here in these absurd contortions of whataboutism?
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