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28 minutes ago
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CJKent_bandThe truth hurts, but if you accept it, it will set you free
I think the causes Gates is investing in are completely worthwhile, like eradicating Malaria. Gates has done a ton to lessen human misery in the developing world.
And I think the new technologies he's investing in, like the Traveling Wave Reactor, show real promise for our future prosperity.
He definitely had sex with his subordinates (wasn't Melissa an employee when they started dating?) And I believe the accounts that he love strippers. But are we gonna judge him for that? I mean, if you live in a glass house....
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an hour ago
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CJKent_bandThe truth hurts, but if you accept it, it will set you free
> Right now the EC is the rule of the game. Bitching about "but we won the popular vote," it doesn't matter. Nor does how or why it started. My vote in Mass doesn't count but the rules are the rules.
Yep, I agree with you here definitely. Both sides have to play the game with the rules we have.
I'm glad you agree it would be worthwhile to end the EC and do the NPVIC. I think it actually could be less of an uphill battle than you think. Right now, the system isn't really protecting most small states. Like, WY, AK, SD, ND... they get ignored in presidential politics.
The EC focuses the race on the battleground states. Silver bulletin currently shows PA as having a voter power index of 7.6. Your voter power index in MA is something less than 0.01, meaning a voter in PA is like 1,000x more powerful than you. It's a ludicrous system.
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an hour ago
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CJKent_bandThe truth hurts, but if you accept it, it will set you free
Also, to CJs original question, Will Trump try to steal the election again?
ABSOLUTELY. He's already been laying the ground work for this, stating in multiple interviews he'll accept the '24 results if and only if he wins. And he will absolutely try all the same felonious assault on our democracy that he did in 2020 should he lose.
He'll pressure officials, from local county board members up to governors to change results or decertify, as he did in 2020. He'll cook up conspiracy theory riddled lawsuits. He'll try again to establish fake electors.
He'll incite stochastic terror on local election workers. He'll try again (or attempt) to send mass mobs of insurrectionists to disrupt official proceedings, both in state houses and again potentially the US Capitol.
As an aside, there's a great HBO documentary out right now called Stopping the Steal. It's the story of the lengths Trump went to in 2020 to overturn the election. Notably, it's a story told only by Republicans.
If he loses this election, he'll be like a caged rat. He'll be facing sentencing in his guilty felon verdict in the hush money case in NY. And he'll be facing felony trials in a GA district court for election interference, and the federal Jan 6th case. In 2020, he tried to overturn the election without consideration of the consequences, this time, threatened and cornered, I fear he could go much farther.
Harris needs to be preparing not just to defeat Trump at the ballot box, but to defend her victory legally, in the court of public opinion, and to defend democracy in general. It think she can and she will.
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2 hours ago
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CJKent_bandThe truth hurts, but if you accept it, it will set you free
I agree with all who have mentioned the electoral college being an outdated relic. I would go so far as to point out that there's a dark reason it exists in it's current form: it was shaped to protect the institution of slavery. https://time.com/4558510/electoral-college-history-slavery/
And @puddytat, you are absolutely right to point out that the worm turns here. To liberals, the EC feels disastrous right now, because Trump won the EC and lost the popular vote in 2016. And this year, it also heavily advantages Trump. Nate Silver's model currently shows a 77% chance that Kamala wins the popular vote, but only a 56% chance she wins the EC, leaving a whopping 21% chance that Trump repeats 2016 by winning the election while losing the popular vote.
But that bias can change. In 2008 and 2012 it favored democrats: https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/a-brief-history-of-electoral-college-bias/
Both parties, IMHO, should want us to be rid of the EC, for the uncertainty, arbitrariness it injects. And for the fact that it disenfranchises so many voters. If you're a Trump voter in NY and CA right now, your vote doesn't mean shit.
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2 hours ago
IMHO, the problem isn't that it's 5/8. The problem is that rejections aren't anonymous. I often find myself hesitant to reject reviews that I think are still going to be published anyway, because then you wind up being the one asshole who pissed on a guy's review that got published. Often I'll just skip voting on a marginal review for this reason.
Also, given founder has experimented with the site for 3 decades now makes me think there's reasons not to make any changes.
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3 hours ago
No one's commented on the fact that these women are all quite attractive. This dude lived a good life, lol.
Either way, I agree with @wallanon and @grrlgonebad that there are numerous reasons discretion is important and valuable in this hobby. One thing no one has commented on here is the privacy of the women involved here. They might well not have wanted to be part of these shenanigans, and it does appear like they gave their consent for their images to be used in this way.
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3 hours ago
Oh, and one thing I forgot to mention in the review itself: I change chicas names as a manner of course in all my reviews, for their privacy. If anyone wants to find "Isabel" I'm happy to share her real stage name via DM, provided you have some history here.
(And damn, I'm still kicking myself for not getting her WhatsApp. What a stupid and petty mistake!)
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3 hours ago
Thanks for the kind words all.
Especially the comparison to HST from @sfrsox! That made my day, the good doctor is one of my all time favorite authors, and I definitely think that "gonzo journalism" is an exceedingly appropriate style for strip club reviews. Reject the idea that a review can be objective, and embrace the idea that you're seeing it through the eyes of the biased, drug addled, sex addicted writer.
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3 hours ago
Nice review PAFBABs! I'll second Rod's suggestion that I would love to hear more about what "no restrictions" meant in your encounter.
I read this and I thought of anal too. That's like, a bucket list item for me in the Zona. Never pulled it off (though TBH I haven't really tried that hard either.)
Also good protip on tipping meseros well. I tend to tip everyone well but the meseros, whom I usually just do a buck a drink for, or $10 for a VIP room. But a little more would probably go a long way.
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4 hours ago
I've just emailed it to you. Thanks for looking into it
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20 hours ago
^ I agree. I think traveling in groups is how any kind of human migration works. Like, the guys from University of Florida who all move out to LA together. People migrate to where they have friends and a network.
As for DC, I would just give it time.
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a day ago
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CJKent_bandThe truth hurts, but if you accept it, it will set you free
Drug riddled orgies aren't crimes.
What P. Diddy did, allegedly, involves trafficking and rape.
I have a low opinion of Musk and a high opinion of Gates, but in either case, barring some tangible evidence of an actual crime, I see no reason for them to be investigated.
discussion comment
a day ago
I tried in a different browser that failed too. It looks like there's two failures here. One is a 500 error "aborted" on the HTTP Post, the other the Javascript error I mentioned previously.
I could split the review into chunks, but that would be difficult, it reads much better as an atomic review I think.
- Maiden Voyage:Day 1 of 3
Great review and can’t wait to read the rest. I’ll have some out soon too.
Congrats on your maiden voyage. It was a great hang, we should do it again soon!
discussion comment
3 days ago
100% I’d prefer nude, even if the alcohol laws suck.
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11 days ago
> But please keep flogging it.
Bro, you posted the thread. Self awareness just doesn't seem to be your thing sometimes. If you don't want to talk about the insurrection on Jan 6, don't be posting threads about J6.
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11 days ago
There are two types of people who "don't care" about the insurrection of Jan 6th:
1. People who are so disengaged with the news and politics that they aren't going to vote and don't matter from an electoral perspective.
2. Members of the cult of Donald Trump. No one's going to convince these people that dear leader did something terrible.
To everyone else, it matters significantly. I would point, as an example, to the recent letter by more than 100 former republican officials who have pointed to Jan 6th as a disqualifying reason for Trump to hold another term. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elections-trump-republicans-endorsing-harris-b2615392.html
In short, anyone who cares about the vitality and stability of our republic cares deeply about the man who tried to overthrow it.
review comment
11 days ago
You are the King of OTC in la Zona, PAFBABS!
review comment
12 days ago
> I was offered a threesome for $100 per girl
Not a bad deal at all!
Thanks for the review.
review comment
12 days ago
Nice review PAFBABS. Did you notice any stand out spinners at CC when you were there?
discussion comment
12 days ago
I signed up a while back but don't remember my credentials so I can't check.
But I agree with TJ Walker's assessment, the girls they feature aren't their best look.
I think some of the best looking girls are just ashamed of the stigma of being a "bailarina exótica", and don't want their faces shown. HK's management also seems to have a preference for curvy women, and the petite women (of whom there are plenty in the club) are underrepresented on the website (and on the photos they hang up on the walls, etc.)
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12 days ago
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ilbbaicnlKeep it in my pants when I do OTC. If I were a stripper it would stand for I like big bucks and I can not lie.
> Hope Trump wins and slams the border shut.
@skibum As a Tijuana enjoyer, this would be soul crushing if the border shut. And such a policy would cause inflation to soar into the double digits, or higher.
@dd Just checked out Border Report. I was expecting some kind of extremist nonsense here, but this looks to be pretty sensible and fact based accounts about what's actually happening down south. Thanks for the tip, definitely adding to my reading list.
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12 days ago
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CJKent_bandThe truth hurts, but if you accept it, it will set you free
^ What makes her a white nationalist is that she's just made a shit ton of racist comments in the past. I believe that recently she said the white house would stink of collared greens and curry if Kamala was elected.
And to OP's question, it's a bad thing definitely.
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13 days ago
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ilbbaicnlKeep it in my pants when I do OTC. If I were a stripper it would stand for I like big bucks and I can not lie.
She's 37, and at HK you're surrounded by chicas in their early twenties. I think I'd pass.
Mexican politics has been interesting to follow of late. AMLO's left-wing party, MORENA, just had a huge victory this summer. They were expected to win but their margins were huge and much higher than expected. Claudia Scheinbuam is going to be taking over with the Mexican equivalent of a filibuster-proof majority. She'll be the first women president of Mexico come October.
And there's also massive judicial reform happening there at AMLO's behest. Mexican states are on the verge of approving changes that would have basically all major justices, including their supreme court, become elected. To my knowledge, no other country in the world elects all of it's justices like this. (Though some US states do this, we don't elect SCOTUS.) It will be an interesting experiment to say the least.
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13 days ago
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EastCoasterI strongly prefer women of color. Every color.
Great review. I need to stop in Akron sometime!