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Steve Rogers said:
uBlock Origin.
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These days, I use both Adblock Plus and uBlock Origin. One catches what the other doesn't. Brave browser works as well, but Firefox + those two is the best for websites that are reliant on flash popups. And it doesn't heat up your processor or RAM like Chrome.

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As they all do.....as they all do.
 
Gregolian said:
It is funny the once a month support thread of:
"WHY am I getting Tranny porn ads on Sherdog"
"Bruh, it's a Google ad related to your search history so......"
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Google really tried to screw me before my engagement. Once I bought my wife's ring almost every ad on all of our computers were for engagement rings. You can imagine her on a laptop and me standing behind her making the throat-cut gesture at the computer before returning to a straight face when she turns around.
 
Gregolian said:
@curryjunkie to add to my last post.... wasn't a huge reason that Vlad the Impaler was such an ASSHOLE to the Turks was because they were brown Muslims/Arabs and he didn't want them "polluting Transylvania"?
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no idea, id imagine like any other ruler they use any excuse to beat on the neighbours. thinking of ol tck's batshittery, he may have his chosen people mixed up with gypsies who came from parts of northern india in the early medieval period and were subsequently persecuted, murdered and thrown out of successive european countries for chicanery, swindling citizens, palm reading and fortune telling , importing eastern mysticism into christian europe, being robbing bastards......so no change there...the idea that half of europe was ruled by a dark skinned elite yet no record exists because of a conspiracy is absurd... like all of his thought processes ...
 
Trotsky said:
It's been true for some time now. There's a certain urge by the post-Daily Show left to catch right wingers in hypocrisy and act like it's a win. But it rarely is.
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Relevant (and good) read about The West Wing and it's effect on American Politics

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/04/how-liberals-fell-in-love-with-the-west-wing

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It’s a smugness born of the view that politics is less a terrain of clashing values and interests than a perpetual pitting of the clever against the ignorant and obtuse. The clever wield facts and reason, while the foolish cling to effortlessly-exposed fictions and the braying prejudices of provincial rubes. In emphasizing intelligence over ideology, what follows is a fetishization of “elevated discourse” regardless of its actual outcomes or conclusions. The greatest political victories involve semantically dismantling an opponent’s argument or exposing its hypocrisy, usually by way of some grand rhetorical gesture. Categories like left and right become less significant, provided that the competing interlocutors are deemed respectably smart and practice the designated etiquette. The Discourse becomes a category of its own, to be protected and nourished by Serious People conversing respectfully while shutting down the stupid with heavy-handed moral sanctimony.

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But if anything gives that worldview pause, it should be the events of the past eight years. Liberals got a real life Josiah Bartlet in the figure of Barack Obama, a charismatic and stylish politician elected on a populist wave. But Obama’s soaring speeches, quintessentially presidential affect, and deference to procedure did little to fundamentally improve the country or prevent his Republican rivals from storming the Congressional barricades at their first opportunity. Confronted by a mercurial TV personality bent on transgressing every norm and truism of Beltway thinking, Democrats responded by exhaustively informing voters of his indecency and hypocrisy, attempting to destroy him countless times with his own logic, but ultimately leaving him completely intact. They smugly taxonomized as “smart” and “dumb” the very electorate they needed to win over, and retreated into an ideological fever dream in which political success doesn’t come from organizing and building power, but from having the most polished arguments and the most detailed policy statements. If you can just crush Trump in the debates, as Bartlet did to Richie, then you’ve won. (That’s not an exaggeration of the worldview. Ezra Klein published an article entitled “Hillary Clinton’s 3 debate performances left the Trump campaign in ruins,” which entirely eliminated the distinction between what happens in debates and what happens in campaigns. The belief that politics is about argument rather than power is likely a symptom of a Democratic politics increasingly incubated in the Ivy League rather than the labor movement.)
 
Lead said:
I never plain on changing my number. Sounds like it would cause too much hassle for two way authentication. Phones have pretty much become societies main way of securing identity now.
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Yep. I changed my number recently and never again. I had to use snail mail and a damn notary just to access my Roth IRA.
 
Steve Rogers said:
Why did the guy flip out? What else did he expect ya to say when he'd told ya ya couldn't get back into your account?
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Honestly have no idea. I guess some people are so attached to the data the account holds (contacts, photos, apps, etc). I’m pretty low maintenance and could care less starting over so I guess that surprised him. What was annoying is the fact he was capable of doing that the whole time but didn’t do it. He had us call apple support twice.
 
Higus said:
Relevant (and good) read about The West Wing and it's effect on American Politics

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/04/how-liberals-fell-in-love-with-the-west-wing

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It’s a smugness born of the view that politics is less a terrain of clashing values and interests than a perpetual pitting of the clever against the ignorant and obtuse. The clever wield facts and reason, while the foolish cling to effortlessly-exposed fictions and the braying prejudices of provincial rubes. In emphasizing intelligence over ideology, what follows is a fetishization of “elevated discourse” regardless of its actual outcomes or conclusions. The greatest political victories involve semantically dismantling an opponent’s argument or exposing its hypocrisy, usually by way of some grand rhetorical gesture. Categories like left and right become less significant, provided that the competing interlocutors are deemed respectably smart and practice the designated etiquette. The Discourse becomes a category of its own, to be protected and nourished by Serious People conversing respectfully while shutting down the stupid with heavy-handed moral sanctimony.

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But if anything gives that worldview pause, it should be the events of the past eight years. Liberals got a real life Josiah Bartlet in the figure of Barack Obama, a charismatic and stylish politician elected on a populist wave. But Obama’s soaring speeches, quintessentially presidential affect, and deference to procedure did little to fundamentally improve the country or prevent his Republican rivals from storming the Congressional barricades at their first opportunity. Confronted by a mercurial TV personality bent on transgressing every norm and truism of Beltway thinking, Democrats responded by exhaustively informing voters of his indecency and hypocrisy, attempting to destroy him countless times with his own logic, but ultimately leaving him completely intact. They smugly taxonomized as “smart” and “dumb” the very electorate they needed to win over, and retreated into an ideological fever dream in which political success doesn’t come from organizing and building power, but from having the most polished arguments and the most detailed policy statements. If you can just crush Trump in the debates, as Bartlet did to Richie, then you’ve won. (That’s not an exaggeration of the worldview. Ezra Klein published an article entitled “Hillary Clinton’s 3 debate performances left the Trump campaign in ruins,” which entirely eliminated the distinction between what happens in debates and what happens in campaigns. The belief that politics is about argument rather than power is likely a symptom of a Democratic politics increasingly incubated in the Ivy League rather than the labor movement.)
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That second paragraph is very good. Thanks.

I hate the West Wing so much. Probably one of the WOAT shows to me. Put cheesy hallmark music behind a video of Ben Shapiro pwning a college student and it's virtually indistinguishable from a classic Bartlett dress down to 95% of the population.
 
Well, I just saw that Gottis/Zebby got banned. What for this time?

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