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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."
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Streamme LLC's website at https://www.stream.me has gone down with a HTTP 403 error.
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For a time their support website at https://info.stream.me was up. Then it turned into a Squarespace expiration page and finally a default Squarespace page.
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Streamme LLC's business registration annual report deadline is over due and they have not filed:
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Their mobile app is now gone from the Google Play Store and iTunes App Store.
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Someone else will have to chime in on the stuff I've heard about people going through their financials.

Apparently there was some leaks indicating https://www.scuffed.com being linked to a rebranding of StreamMe.
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Allegedly when you signed up for Scuffed.com (while it was available) you got an email like this:
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People report getting PayPal payments from StreamMe that are accurate to what they were owed.
 
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AnOminous said:
So are they trying to shake off the IBS and alt-right speds? That's not going to work because nobody else gives a shit about their exceptional platform.
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I read somewhere (his thread I think) that Ice Poseidon had something to do with Stream.me even being a thing. I don't know what exactly, but he did recently publicly and quite clearly explain that he's running a ponzi scheme to fund his various investments (because the guy's too fucking dumb to realize what he was doing is illegal) so it might have something to do with that.
 
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I read somewhere (his thread I think) that Ice Poseidon had something to do with Stream.me even being a thing. I don't know what exactly, but he did recently publicly and quite clearly explain that he's running a ponzi scheme to fund his various investments (because the guy's too fucking dumb to realize what he was doing is illegal) so it might have something to do with that.
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The allegation is that Scuffed.com is run by the same guy who run's Ice Poseidon's stuff.
 
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The allegation is that Scuffed.com is run by the same guy who run's Ice Poseidon's stuff.
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Honestly I have no idea how liability works when it comes to white collar crime shenanigans so ¯\(ツ)/¯

I just remembered that Stream.me had a financial tie-in with the sperglord himself.
 
Some emails were sent to someone at StreamMe, here they are:
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What Killed Streamme - A Tribute to Stream Me

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN GUNT. A recap events leading up to the shutdown. Riot Server https://riot.im/app/#/group/+ops:ethanralph.com Discrap: https://discor...
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This guy is basically taking credit for shutting the site down because "fuck Ethan Ralph" and "and I could."

Their site no longer loads at all.
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Trans Woman Charged With Hate Crime for Admitting She’s a Man – Judge Disgusted

A transgender woman who opposes transgender activism went on trial Friday for allegedly committing a hate crime during a Twitter debate.

But the judge threw out the case after a single hearing – abruptly ending the United Kingdom’s first transgender hate crime prosecution.

In announcing his decision, District Judge John Woollard declared: “There is no case and never was a case.”
Prosecutors had brought the harassment charges against Miranda Yardley – a 51-year-old transgender critic of transgender culture – based on a complaint last year by Helen Islan, a transgender rights advocate.

The two had last year taken opposite sides in an online argument over gender self-identification, which has become a hotly contested issue in the United Kingdom because of planned legal reforms to let anyone change their gender without surgery.

Yardely, an accountant who has had sex reassignment surgery, was among those arguing on Twitter that transgender activists are setting back women’s rights and threatening their safety by allowing transgender women access to female-only institutions. Her position has long been that while gender is flexible, biological sex is a fact and should be respected.

Islan – who is the mother of a transgender child and works for Mermaids, a group that advocates for transgender youth – accused Yardley’s side of “spreading hysteria.”

Yardley responded by revealing Islan’s identity in a tweet that referenced the woman’s transgender child.

Islan then claimed that Yardley had effectively “outed” her son, saying the post made her feel “stressed and sick” and that her family had faced harassment as a result.

(Yardley in May said she was excommunicated from Twitter for violating its “hate speech” policy by calling a transgender politician a man. Months later, Twitter specifically banned “misgendering” and “deadnaming.”)

When Islan’s complaint reached Essex police, they deemed that Yardley had committed a hate crime, part of a trend of UK law enforcement taking action against critics of transgenderism.

However, in court, Yardley’s attorneys showed that Islan had regularly tweeted about her son in the past, including announcing that he had come out at school. They also showed that a Google search was sufficient to find a family photograph she had posted as well as her personal information.

“Where is the evidence [of harassment] taking into account the need for free speech? You have to show a course of conduct and at the moment we have one tweet,” Woollard said at one point in the hearing. “Where is the evidence for Miranda Yardley outing Ms Islan’s son?”

In throwing out the case, he ordered the state to pay Yardley’s legal bills.

Critics of the transgender-rights movement hailed the decision as victory for free speech.

Barrister Amanda Jones, who has represented clients accused of “anti-trans” comments, told The Mail on Sunday that the legal proceedings had been a waste of police resources and taxpayer money.

“The police and the CPS routinely ignore rape threats, death threats and abusive material targeted at women online,” she said. “The entire criminal justice system is falling apart from underfunding and this case appears to have been a complete waste of public funds.”

Islan sought to distance herself from the failed prosecution: ‘The decision to prosecute was made by the CPS, not me personally and I accept the verdict of the court.”

But Yardely wasn’t buying it. In a post to her blog Sunday, she noted that Islan had threatened to sue her, and called the woman a “hypocrite.”

Yardely also warned that police had sought to “enforce a political ideology” against her, saying: “I faced losing everything I worked for.

Essex Police said: “We take all reports of hate crime incidents seriously.”

Meanwhile, Americans have been engaged in similar culture wars of transgender rights.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has promised to use her new Democratic majority to advance legislation recognizing gender self-identification, and the extent and even concept of hate crimes has come into question amid mounting evidence that actor Jussie Smollett staged a high-profile attack on himself.
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This is amazing. Keep being weird, UK.
 
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neverendingmidi said:
Seriously. It’s a card game. I could kind of see amphetamines for long games, but what doess testosterone and female fertility drugs do?

Honestly with that combo I wonder what age he is and if he and his wife are doing IVF or if older taking supplements due to that. I know topical steroids can be transferred by family members, I don’t know if estrogen products can do the same.
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Clomiphene is used in conjunction with other performance enhancing drugs to raise testosterone and negate the effects of estrogen, if they find it in a male it's a clear sign that something is going on.

From USADA:
Clomiphene is a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) commonly used in female fertility brand name prescription medications, such as Clomid. In women, clomiphene acts on the pituitary gland to stimulate the release of specific hormones responsible for ovulation. In men, clomiphene can alter testosterone levels by interfering with the negative feedback loop of the hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis.
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Clomid is indicated by the FDA “for the treatment of ovulatory dysfunction in women desiring pregnancy.”
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but putting children on crazy hormone blockers, that's approved

Testosterone and clomiphene isn't that crazy of a combination for someone swole, getting suspended from bridge because of it is a bit crazy, that it was this guy getting caught 'roiding is pretty crazy though.
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A group of white men on Sunday donned ‘MAGA’ hats and allowed “men and women of color and members of the LGBT community” to walk them along Hollywood Boulevard like dogs, according to a press release.
In addition to the red caps, the dozen or so dehumanized participants wore dog tags featuring the names of “racist” white men, including former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke and President Donald Trump. The stunt was the work of Indecline, a left-wing artist collective and activist group.
A video showed the men being collared and walked on all fours along the bustling tourist thoroughfare on red leashes. They were generally docile, allowing children and other passersby to pet them. But when they reached Trump’s oft-vandalized star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, they went into a canine-like frenzy.
The footage of the event was interspersed with clips of police brutality against African-Americans during the Civil Rights era, of various KKK and neo-Nazi rallies, and of Tump speaking. A cover of the Stooges proto-punk song “I Wanna Be Your Dog,” served as the soundtrack.
Indecline said the “performance” – titled “Hate Breed” – was inspired Cardi B’s Twitter feud last month with Tomi Lahren. During that high-profile spat, the feminist rapper told the right-wing pundit: “Leave me alone, or I’ll dog walk you.”
A text introducing the video further explained the concept behind the production:
Often, those most responsible for educating the prejudice are the very subjects of their prejudice, and, although they have the greatest right to anger, they understand only a calm-but-firm empathetic hand can clear the way forward.That being said, sometimes it’s still necessary to toss a bigot on a leash and dog walk their ass until they are better trained. Stay disciplined, friends.
Although Indecline claimed to have something loftier than an identity-politics revenge fantasy in mind, its patronizing tone was not lost on conservatives.
If there’s anything to the analysis that Trump was elected largely a finger in the eye of America’s condescending elite, the group might have nudged the president just a little closer to reelection in 2020.

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White Men Dress Up as Trump Supporters and Let Feminists ‘Dog Walk’ Them for Social Justice

A group of white men on Sunday donned 'MAGA' hats and allowed "men and women of color and members of the LGBT community" to walk them like dogs.
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Sexy Senior Citizen said:
A group of white men on Sunday donned ‘MAGA’ hats and allowed “men and women of color and members of the LGBT community” to walk them along Hollywood Boulevard like dogs, according to a press release.
In addition to the red caps, the dozen or so dehumanized participants wore dog tags featuring the names of “racist” white men, including former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke and President Donald Trump. The stunt was the work of Indecline, a left-wing artist collective and activist group.
A video showed the men being collared and walked on all fours along the bustling tourist thoroughfare on red leashes. They were generally docile, allowing children and other passersby to pet them. But when they reached Trump’s oft-vandalized star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, they went into a canine-like frenzy.
The footage of the event was interspersed with clips of police brutality against African-Americans during the Civil Rights era, of various KKK and neo-Nazi rallies, and of Tump speaking. A cover of the Stooges proto-punk song “I Wanna Be Your Dog,” served as the soundtrack.
Indecline said the “performance” – titled “Hate Breed” – was inspired Cardi B’s Twitter feud last month with Tomi Lahren. During that high-profile spat, the feminist rapper told the right-wing pundit: “Leave me alone, or I’ll dog walk you.”
A text introducing the video further explained the concept behind the production:
Often, those most responsible for educating the prejudice are the very subjects of their prejudice, and, although they have the greatest right to anger, they understand only a calm-but-firm empathetic hand can clear the way forward.That being said, sometimes it’s still necessary to toss a bigot on a leash and dog walk their ass until they are better trained. Stay disciplined, friends.
Although Indecline claimed to have something loftier than an identity-politics revenge fantasy in mind, its patronizing tone was not lost on conservatives.
If there’s anything to the analysis that Trump was elected largely a finger in the eye of America’s condescending elite, the group might have nudged the president just a little closer to reelection in 2020.

pluralist.com

White Men Dress Up as Trump Supporters and Let Feminists ‘Dog Walk’ Them for Social Justice

A group of white men on Sunday donned 'MAGA' hats and allowed "men and women of color and members of the LGBT community" to walk them like dogs.
pluralist.com pluralist.com
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You sure this isn't just some weird cuck/sub fantasy some guys wanted to do, and used politics to cover for it?
 
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