"What is bothering you right now?" Thread. Bonus: Now with 40% more bother!

[raptorddd]

On 11/18/2024 at 9:06 PM, Mr. Fox said:

Never a shortage on stupid.

 

is it also true that you can steal items and police wont do anything if the item isnt over a certain amouint.? i watched a video of people running off with iphones.

we also have the same problem that human rights gives more power to thieves. you cant do anything to a thieve if you catch ihim nside your home.

 

[Mr. Fox]

1 hour ago, raptorddd said:

is it also true that you can steal items and police wont do anything if the item isnt over a certain amouint.? i watched a video of people running off with iphones.

we also have the same problem that human rights gives more power to thieves. you cant do anything to a thieve if you catch ihim nside your home.

 

Yes, that is true. They don't even arrest people for shoplifting any more. Even stealing cars is treated like a minor misdemeaner and downgraded to "unauthorized use" instead of grand theft in some of the more liberal jurisdictions. It is very sad how soft on crime our nation has become.

[raptorddd]

On 11/21/2024 at 2:44 PM, Mr. Fox said:

Yes, that is true. They don't even arrest people for shoplifting any more. Even stealing cars is treated like a minor misdemeaner and downgraded to "unauthorized use" instead of grand theft in some of the more liberal jurisdictions. It is very sad how soft on crime our nation has become.

that is sad.  who cover this losses.? its not fair.

i have heard stories of middle east i beleive that steling gets your hand cut off.  wich reminds me of the previous candidates wehn ALMO won one of them said if you steal have them have their hands cut off. funny is that he end up in jail LOL because he stole money when he was governor. 

i think the world needs to be more educated. 

one thing i remembered when i arrive in the US. was when my mom talked to other people was that in the US in california you can leave your stuff outside and nobody will take it. one of the things i saw outside were those big power wheels electric cars on the lawn.. yes there are good and bad people and some will steal.

[radji]

Had to shut down all my social media a month ago cause of a stalker.  

 

That person made actual contact w/me today driving after me yelling when I was on my run.

 

folks have officially lost their minds 😕 

[Mr. Fox]

Not knowing, or having no explanation... unacceptable

 

[raptorddd]

On 12/21/2024 at 3:34 PM, Mr. Fox said:

Not knowing, or having no explanation... unacceptable

 

not long ago the US acknowledge the existaance of UFO. and now this.

[Mr. Fox]

People that have never been here and believe what they see and hear on the "news" being critical of the United States. Equally annoying, those born here that do the same thing, don't know how good they have it, and foolish enough to believe the grass is greener. To them I say, "Go ahead... FAFO." 🤣 

 

[raptorddd]

On 12/31/2024 at 7:37 AM, Mr. Fox said:

People that have never been here and believe what they see and hear on the "news" being critical of the United States. Equally annoying, those born here that do the same thing, don't know how good they have it, and foolish enough to believe the grass is greener. To them I say, "Go ahead... FAFO." 🤣 

 

i love mexico but if i had to choose between mexico and US id  pick the US. hands down. i love both countries both had been my home. its so much better in the US and i was more happy there. so you are all blessed to be living on that country.

 

[Papusan]

What bothers me... Stupid Govenments. Can anyone tell me what they will gain from this? 

 

 

The Pornhub Bans Are Not About Keeping Kids Safe

[Jarhead]

2 hours ago, Papusan said:

What bothers me... Stupid Govenments. Can anyone tell me what they will gain from this? 

 

 

The Pornhub Bans Are Not About Keeping Kids Safe

 

It's pretty simple: some materials are age restricted. Kids can't buy booze or smokes either, offline or online.

[Papusan]

25 minutes ago, Jarhead said:

 

It's pretty simple: some materials are age restricted. Kids can't buy booze or smokes either, offline or online.

 

Much easier find such materials (videos) for kids than easly buy booze or smoke from the stores. You just can't compare it. 

[Jarhead]

37 minutes ago, Papusan said:

 

Much easier find such materials (videos) for kids than easly buy booze or smoke from the stores. You just can't compare it. 

 

Sure, and a kid can illicitly drink booze from their parents' fridge. Doesn't make it right nor does it mean age checking for booze is inappropriate.

[Mr. Fox]

While it is impossible to mandate decency and morality, I am all for mandates that uphold the ethics, traditional family values and Judeo-Christian fabric that our nation was built upon. While conceptually supporting freedom of speech and thought, it is unacceptable to give preference and afford special consideration or legal protection to those that drive a controversial and socially reprehensible minority agenda that opposes the principles our nation was founded upon.

[Reciever]

Lazy people bother me more than they should.

 

I don't mean lazy like hit the snooze four times but lazy to the point of repeated self inflicted career suicide. 

[Mr. Fox]

Very sad to see such devastating losses. Nice job to all of the woke CA "leaders" that made this tragedy possible. Their DEI focus and defunding efforts made all the difference.

  

On 1/3/2025 at 2:15 PM, raptorddd said:

i love mexico but if i had to choose between mexico and US id  pick the US. hands down. i love both countries both had been my home. its so much better in the US and i was more happy there. so you are all blessed to be living on that country.

I love Mexico, too. It is a beautiful country and an amazing culture, with many lovely people. The current state of affairs offers us a glmpse into how much damage can be expected when corrupt government and organized crime are allowed to grow unchecked, like a cancer spreading and only becoming evident to its victim when it can no longer be contained. It is tragic how all of that affects the good, God-fearing and hard-working families that live there. If we don't learn from it and take aggressive active steps to avoid it, we will end up with the same horrible mess in the US. 

 

[Meaker]

On 1/12/2025 at 6:15 PM, Mr. Fox said:

Very sad to see such devastating losses. Nice job to all of the woke CA "leaders" that made this tragedy possible. Their DEI focus and defunding efforts made all the difference.

  

I love Mexico, too. It is a beautiful country and an amazing culture, with many lovely people. The current state of affairs offers us a glmpse into how much damage can be expected when corrupt government and organized crime are allowed to grow unchecked, like a cancer spreading and only becoming evident to its victim when it can no longer be contained. It is tragic how all of that affects the good, God-fearing and hard-working families that live there. If we don't learn from it and take aggressive active steps to avoid it, we will end up with the same horrible mess in the US. 

 

 

That's the problem with a 2 party state that takes all the nuance out of politics, you get two sides neither of which keep the country as a whole as their priority, you get radicalisation rather than the true melting pot of ideas that brought people together in the first place. The US was founded by people of different faiths and ideas coming together for a better outcome and that was your strength.

[Mr. Fox]

9 minutes ago, Meaker said:

 

That's the problem with a 2 party state that takes all the nuance out of politics, you get two sides neither of which keep the country as a whole as their priority, you get radicalisation rather than the true melting pot of ideas that brought people together in the first place. The US was founded by people of different faiths and ideas coming together for a better outcome and that was your strength.

While I like the concept and agree with the idea, in practical application there is also a downside to having more than two parties as well. The small niche party siphons votes away from the party that would have won an election and sometimes it can allow the wrong/worst candidate to win an election due to people wasting a vote on a candidate that has a snowball's chance in hell of winning. There are no perfect candidates, but the lesser of evils is usually not hard to identify.

[Meaker]

1 minute ago, Mr. Fox said:

While I like the concept and agree with the idea, in practical application there is also a downside to having more than two parties as well. The small niche party takes votes away and sometimes it can allow the wrong/worst candidate to win an election due to people wasting a vote on a candidate that has a snowball's chance in hell of winning. There are no perfect candidates, but the lesser of evils is usually not hard to identify.

There are voting systems like ranked choice that means that you can better filter for that though and allow smaller parties to exist. That's the problem with a system thats forcing you to make a choice you don't want to make.

[Mr. Fox]

8 minutes ago, Meaker said:

There are voting systems like ranked choice that means that you can better filter for that though and allow smaller parties to exist. That's the problem with a system thats forcing you to make a choice you don't want to make.

It usually works out fine for me. I seldom vote for a candidate that I wouldn't want to win an election. It's rare that I think both are tragic options. I'm not a middle-ground type of person so it's probably different for me. With the minority party candidates I find they are often a cocktail of good and bad things from both sides and they've got enough bad ideas I wouldn't consider casting a vote for them for fear of the damage they might cause if elected.

 

We do have a multi-party system here. There are elected politicians that are neither Republican nor Democrat. You don't see them in office often because most of the time they do not have enough  support to justify having their name on the ballot. Once in a while a Green Party or Libertarian candidate gets elected.

[Etern4l]

On 1/14/2025 at 6:46 PM, Mr. Fox said:

While I like the concept and agree with the idea, in practical application there is also a downside to having more than two parties as well. The small niche party siphons votes away from the party that would have won an election and sometimes it can allow the wrong/worst candidate to win an election due to people wasting a vote on a candidate that has a snowball's chance in hell of winning. There are no perfect candidates, but the lesser of evils is usually not hard to identify.

 

Ta-da! Introducing Proportional Representation....

 

While the UK system is also ridiculously broken, with the outdated and unfair FPTP alone, I would argue the US with the electoral collage system and strictly 2 parties is one or two levels of borked above that. The argument for the two party systems use to be that they are more robust to populism and extremism. Well, here we are: democracy, if you can keep it.

 

Anyway, good luck to us all. If the US democracy outright fails, or even just withdraws to extreme protectionism (arguably a huge driving factor behind WWII) - the West will break down and fall apart. I guess 80 years of relative peace and prosperity has been a good run.

[Mr. Fox]

50 minutes ago, Etern4l said:

 

Ta-da! Introducing Proportional Representation....

 

While the UK system is also ridiculously broken, with the outdated and unfair FPTP alone, I would argue the US with the electoral collage system and strictly 2 parties is one or two levels of borked above that. The argument for the two party systems use to be that they are more robust to populism and extremism. Well, here we are: democracy, if you can keep it.

 

Anyway, good luck to us all. If the US democracy outright fails, or even just withdraws to extreme protectionism (arguably a huge driving factor behind WWII) - the West will break down and fall apart. I guess 80 years of relative peace and prosperity has been a good run.

I'm glad we don't have that here and I hope we never do. The UK way of governing is undesirable and that is why America exists. The pilgrims left because it sucked. The more our government takes on traits that resemble that the worse things get. 

 

The "me too"  mentality and expecting to gain public acceptance of individual preferences no matter what they are is really effed up. In fact, that anything goes, I'm OK/you're OK mentality is a fast track to self-destruction. Some things are not okay and we need to call the balls and strikes. People that don't like it can leave. Especially those that are here uninvited and without proper authority. They are trespassers that shouldn't have a voice in anything. They need to go home, or get rounded up and sent home. The days of tiny special interests demanding to be embraced and celebrated, or even financially funded in some ways, by everyone needs to end. That is, in great part, why things are so jacked up. 

[Etern4l]

4 minutes ago, Mr. Fox said:

I'm glad we don't have that here and I hope we never do. The "me too"  mentality and expecting to gain public acceptance of individual preferences no matter what they are is really effed up. In fact, that anything goes, I'm OK/you're OK mentality is a fast track to self-destruction. Some things are not okay and we need to call the balls and strikes. People that don't like it can leave. Especially those that are here uninvited and without proper authority. They are trespassers and don't have a voice and shouldn't have. They need to go home, or get rounded up and sent home. 

 

No idea what you are talking about - "me too" is a completely different topic.  PR enables a society to address the problem Meaker mentioned earlier: people look at the 2 main parties and both suck big time. At the moment, if someone in the US did want to start a new party they would stand very little chance of gaining any significant power even despite massive popular support. This weakens democracy by reducing competition.

[Mr. Fox]

3 hours ago, Etern4l said:

 

This weakens democracy by reducing competition.

No it doesn't. All you have to do is open your eyes and look at the mess you have in UK. I'll take this, warts and all, over that. I am not talking about the feminist "me too" movement that suggests any accusation made against a man by a woman should automatically be accepted as fact on face value. I am using "me too" to mean the silly notion that anyone that wants a platform is entitled to have one regardless of whether or not is it embraced as socially acceptable or rejected.

 

Rival political parties are not "competition" and smart people work together to get things done. Division is not smart and nothing good gets done when niche locos become obsessed with their own interests and act as though they are hell-bent on ramming their agenda down everyone else's (usually the majority) throat.

 

If the new parties brought massively popular ideas with broad support they would succeed. The reason they don't succeed is because they are usually small minority goofballs with loads of self-serving bad ideas that don't have enough support and don't need/deserve to have any place in governing the huge majority that doesn't accept their views. They need to fall in line and understand that they are a minority with ideas and values that are not acceptable to the majority. Not saying they can't have them just saying they can't have a platform to push universal acceptance, forced embracement or a demand for tolerance.

 

For the record, both parties do not suck big-time. Extremists do suck, but those are the clowns that would fragment society with PR cells and expect a level playing field with equal weight for the lunatic fringe. Republicans and Democrats are all Americans and have more in common than what they disagree on. It is the extremists on both sides that are the problem. Extreme left un-American nutjobs on the Democrat side are exactly how and why Trump had such a sound victory. They do not represent what is normal for Democrat, Republican or American as a whole. They are psychotic. Smart people are paying attention and are fed up with the nonsense that has become the new normal on the whacky far left. Moderate Democrats (the huge majority of that party) don't want anything to do with the insane minority that has been allowed to hijack their party. Moderates represent the bulk of both parties.

 

Trump is more moderate than I would like him to be, but that is why he got elected, with the help of Democrats, Republicans, Green Partiers, Libertarians and Tea Party. People are fed up with the idiocy and broke from party lines to elect someone they hope can right the ship like he did before. Tons of stuff got effed up in record-setting time during the past 4 years under the rule of lunatics. He is hated by the "progressive" extreme left because he represents what is normal, right and acceptable. They're losing their minds over the fact that Americans as a whole have rejected their dystopian quest to "fundamentally transform" America (into a third-world hell hole).