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Should be a wild four years.

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this already happens nigga do you think they can't trace your ip
If someone suddenly got a hold of the entirety of Kiwifarms, including account information, it would be difficult to tie this account to me personally. You are basically a "well the government knows everything so no harm in giving them more" type. In some parts of the internet they call people like you "nigger cattle."

TOR has gotten a lot better since I first started using it like a decade ago. I feel like TOR speeds were super slow a decade ago. Mind you, I didn't start using it regularly until that hack on the forums happened.

The TOR team is also working on updating the code base by re-writing it in rust. I have a ton of connection issues with that. But hopefully in the future, TOR is faster and more secure. Well, more secure than it is already.
Schizotheory but I believe the Tor network has gotten faster because governments and other data oriented institutions have set up favored nodes to make it easier to unravel the traffic and it's no longer mostly comprised of mostly volunteers and their personal servers. I think it's still far more effective for privacy and anonymity than almost everything else.
 
Wow. Totally not easily manipulated.
the part that comes right after that that you conveniently left out was "would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest" which in layman's terms means if it's porn.

go to any person on earth and show them a video of a girl sucking cock and ask them if it's porn. Or better yet, just ask yourself "if i showed this to a minor, would i get a sex offender charge?" pretty simple standard we already use for child sex cases.
 
ok dude because you are definitely in control of what they do at school where they disappear for like 8 hours a day
Ignoring the rise of home schooling, part of being a parent is keeping tabs on what your child is doing when they're not around.
But that would require you actually engage your child in meaningful conversation which cuts into your "me time".
go to any person on earth and show them a video of a girl sucking cock and ask them if it's porn. Or better yet, just ask yourself "i showed this to a minor, would i get a sex offender charge?" pretty simple standard we already use for child sex cases.
There are people who believe Michelangelo's David to be pornographic.
 
The hill isn't for porn access, it's for ID requirements to access websites. I think pretty much everyone in this thread agrees that something should be done about children accessing porn and there are disagreements over the right way to do that. One thing is clear, porn sites are abusing the inherent trust the internet was built on to prey on kids.
But the people who fear monger about the ID for porn don't offer any solutions, just sci fi tales of the future where the internet requires an ID just to make a simple google search. It just seems unreasonable to me. It would be one thing if someone had any idea of an alternative to the ID requirement for porn but most of the time the people arguing against it are clearly just seething that their porn will be harder to access.

Why is it okay for an ID to be required to buy alcohol or weed online but it's not okay to require an ID to watch porn? I don't see people arguing that requiring an ID for liquor and weed online is going to lead to ultimate doom and a blanket requirement over the whole internet.
 
But the people who fear monger about the ID for porn don't offer any solutions,
We do.
Raise your fucking kids instead of giving them an iPad.
But we keep hearing "parenting is hard".
so you never lied to your parents as a kid?
Why would a child want to lie to their parents?
 
And that's exactly what's going to happen now that a Democrat uniparty is all but assured thanks to the GOP's fuckups.
I love you fatpacks!

I have very little to say regarding the current events I just wanted to say hi to my favorite doomer as well as the rest of USPG!!

I would also just not give my ID to any website!
 
The Mormons started it. Fuck off. They were allowed to practice their religion, but instead they decided to attack settler convoys.

You have no idea what you are talking about. The Mormons massacred an entire settler convoy at Mountain Meadows.

The US Army wasn't sent in over religious differences. It was sent in because the retards in Salt Lake city decided they had the authority to kill American citizens. The US Army "deterred" the Mormon church of this notion. By force and extreme violence. And under the guns of the US Army, the Mormons became very accommodating. They didn't just stop attacking wagon trains they started to profess how patriotic they were. Amazing what swift and certain implementation of lethal force can accomplish. Even against religious cultists.
based off the books i read about it, it was primarily due to the church's practice of polygamy and the threat of Mormons being more loyal to the Church than to the usa. im not a scholar ofc.

i do think the argument in reynolds v. United States, 1879 about polygamy being a banned religious practice makes sense but why allow native americans to have an exemption to drug laws allowing them to have peyote or the endangered species act allowing them to have eagle feathers
 
it isn't vague if you actually apply the standard. the only thing keeping porn sites open is lack of political will to enforce said standard.
It's far too vague, and SCOTUS has waffled back and forth on how strictly it was meant to be interpreted for decades. Whether something is "obscene" in their view practically comes down to whether they had a good bowel movement that morning. The standard as defined is useless.

The TOR team is also working on updating the code base by re-writing it in rust.
Jesus wept, the fucking rustfags have infiltrated everything, haven't they? Do you honestly expect people involved in the premier troon language are going to possibly resist the urge to put tracers of some kind into TOR for certain "naughty places" (like KF, not for anything like CSAM, which they want to continue accessing)?
 
But the people who fear monger about the ID for porn don't offer any solutions, just sci fi tales of the future where the internet requires an ID just to make a simple google search. It just seems unreasonable to me. It would be one thing if someone had any idea of an alternative to the ID requirement for porn but most of the time the people arguing against it are clearly just seething that their porn will be harder to access.

Why is it okay for an ID to be required to buy alcohol or weed online but it's not okay to require an ID to watch porn? I don't see people arguing that requiring an ID for liquor and weed online is going to lead to ultimate doom and a blanket requirement over the whole internet.
I think it's easy to say "well porn is bad so who cares if the gooners have to dox themselves to goon" but it sets a precedent of the government forcing ID requirements to access a site. Purchasing prohibited items is requiring ID to access the items, not the sites. And let's be real, the law is ineffective, if anyone wants to get around it then they will use a VPN. Kids can find free VPNs without issue, I know I did and I used them in school to play games, students were always ahead of the IT department, even if it meant using basically malware to play the shittiest games imaginable. Gooners will do the same.

Now I'd like to mention the sponsor of this post...
 
based off the books i read about it, it was primarily due to the church's practice of polygamy and the threat of Mormons being more loyal to the Church than to the usa. im not a scholar ofc.
There was much more going on. The Mormon cult was founded by an 19th century version of Chris Chan. A proto lolcow cult uprising literally occurred. And an official declaration of insurrection and disloyalty has never been rescinded by the "church."

Anyways, I'm gonna go to bed.
Goodnight you Princes of Sneed, you Kings of Feed and Seed! And may the REEEEEs of spergs sing thee to thy rests!
 
It's far too vague, and SCOTUS has waffled back and forth on how strictly it was meant to be interpreted for decades. Whether something is "obscene" in their view practically comes down to whether they had a good bowel movement that morning. The standard as defined is useless.
For real though we have had three different tests since the foundation of the country for what qualifies as Obscenity and we still haven't found one that produces relatively predictable results at trial. One of the more interesting arguments for the unconstitutionality of Obscenity laws is that it's often not even possible for the defendant to know if they are guilty and that they therefore can not prepare an adequate defense.
 
I'd personally rather a law that porn sites are, by default, blocked and have to be opt in to even be able to see them. But that raises other issues, even though ISPs do DNS blocking already quite often without people ever even knowing. That has a lot of problems too and is still easy to mitigate for gooners. Children, however, would have to jump through some tricky hoops that are usually locked down by default.
 
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