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2019-04-22 at 4:27 PM UTC in Cold approaching and getting rejected by a woman at the gym is actually a great way to establish future relations...Practice makes perfect. But yeah, if girls see you hanging out with a hot chick, that indicates you're less likely to be a rapist/serial killer/abuser, and makes you somewhat more attractive by association.
Guys that I consider fugly could end up with dime pieces if they weren't afraid of rejection so much and just went for it. Treat it like it's a mission. If you get rejected, onto the next one. Eventually you'll be successful.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2019-04-29 at 7:31 PM UTC in Texas Federal Court Becomes the Third to Strike Down Pro-Israel Oath as Unconstitutional
A FEDERAL COURT IN TEXAS issued a ruling on Thursday afternoon preliminarily enjoining enforcement of Texas’ law banning contractors from boycotting Israel. The court ruled that the law plainly violates the free speech guarantee of the First Amendment. Following similar decisions by federal courts in Kansas and Arizona, the ruling becomes the third judicial finding – out of three who have evaluated the constitutionality of such laws – to conclude that they are unconstitutional attacks on the free speech rights of Americans.
The case was brought by Bahia Amawi, a longtime elementary school speech pathologist in Austin, Texas, whose contract renewal was denied due to her refusal to sign an oath certifying that she does not participate in any boycotts of Israel. In December, The Intercept was the first to report on her case and the lawsuit she brought, and also produced a video documenting her story:
Amawi, a U.S. citizen and mother of four U.S.-born children, was required to sign the pro-Israel oath due to a new law enacted with almost no dissent by the Texas State Legislature in May 2017, and signed into law two days later by GOP Gov. Greg Abbott. When signing the bill, Gov. Abbott proclaimed: “Any anti-Israel policy is an anti-Texas policy.”
But this was precisely the mentality, along with the virtually unanimous pro-Israel sentiment in the Texas State Legislature, that the Texas federal judge identified when explaining why the pro-Israel oath so blatantly violates the free speech guarantees of the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment:
In Texas, only five legislators voted against H.B. 89. (Texas Resp. Mots. Prelim. Inj., Dkt. 25, at 4). Texas touts these numbers as the statute’s strength. They are, rather, its weakness. “If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.” W. Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624, 642 (1943). “[T]he purpose behind the Bill of Rights, and of the First Amendment in particular[,]” is “to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation—and their ideas from suppression—at the hands of an intolerant society.” McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Comm’n, 514 U.S. 334, 357 (1995).
Thus, “our citizens must tolerate insulting, and even outrageous, speech” in public debate. Boos, 485 U.S. at 322. They must do so “in order to provide ‘adequate breathing space’ to the freedoms protected by the First Amendment.” Id. (citing Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46, 56 (1988)). With H.B. 89, Texas compresses this space. The statute threatens “to suppress unpopular ideas” and “manipulate the public debate through coercion rather than persuasion.” Turner, 512 U.S. at 641. This the First Amendment does not allow.
The ruling, issued by U.S. District Court Judge Robert Pitman, categorically rejected each of Texas’ justifications for the law. Judge Pitman was particularly emphatic that the law was not merely “government speech” in defense of Israel, but rather a classic embodiment of what the First Amendment, at its core, was designed to prevent: punishment imposed on those who disagree with the majority’s political opinions on hotly contested political topics. The attack on free speech, explained the court, was manifest from the text of the law itself:
It is a content- and viewpoint-based restriction on speech. It is a content-based restriction because it singles out speech about Israel, not any other country. And it is a viewpoint-based restriction because it targets only speech “intended to penalize, inflict harm on, or limit commercial relations specifically with Israel, or with a person or entity doing business in Israel or in an Israeli-controlled territory.” Tex. Gov. Case 1:18-cv-01091- . . . [T]he Court finds that H.B. 89’s plain text, the statements surrounding its passage, and Texas’s briefing in this case reveal the statute to be a viewpoint-based restriction intended not to combat discrimination on the basis of national origin, but to silence speech with which Texas disagrees. First, the plain text: H.B. 89 singles out content and viewpoint for restriction. With respect to content, the statute targets only boycotts of Israel; Texas contractors remain free to boycott Palestine or any other country.
Much of the court’s reasoning relied upon the landmark 1982 U.S. Supreme Court decision in NAACP v. Clairborne Hardwarde Co., which rejected attempts by the state of Mississippi to hold state NAACP leaders liable for property damage done to stores by the NAACP activists’ boycotts. Their property destruction, claimed Mississippi, was “incited” and “inspired” by the inflammatory rhetoric of NAACP leaders. The Supreme Court unanimously rejected those attempts on the ground that, as the Texas court put it, “the desire to not purchase certain products is distinctly protected in the context of a political boycott,” and nobody can be punished for the “consequences” of protected First Amendment activities, including theories that their speech “inspired” or “incited’ others to take action.
Just as those NAACP leaders in Mississippi could not be punished by the state for the consequences of their political speech advocating boycotts (because boycotts are core protected First Amendment activity), advocates of an Israel boycott may not be constitutionally limited, constrained, or punished in any way by the state as a result of their boycott activities. In sum, said the court, “plaintiffs’ BDS boycotts are speech protected by the First Amendment.”
What makes this ruling particularly important, aside from the fact that it comes from one of the largest states in the country, is that it completely rejected the most common (and most toxic) justification for these laws: that it is not designed to suppress speech or activism against Israel but rather to combat discrimination (namely, anti-Semitism or discrimination against Israelis).
The court treated this cynical argument with barely disguised disdain: “The statute’s plain text makes its purpose obvious: to prevent expressive conduct critical of the nation of Israel, not discriminatory conduct on the basis of Israeli national origin. Texas points to no authority indicating that such a purpose is a legitimate or compelling aim of government justifying the restriction of First Amendment freedoms.”
Such laws are indisputably designed to outlaw and punish political activism that lies at the heart of the First Amendment’s free speech guarantee. As the court adeptly described the targeted political activism: “The BDS movement—referring to boycotts, divestment, and sanctions—arose in response to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory and its treatment of Palestinian citizens and refugees.” It is “[m]odeled after the South African anti-apartheid movement” and “seeks to pressure the Israeli government to end its occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and Golan Heights, end discrimination against Arab/Palestinian citizens of Israel, permit Palestinian refugees to return to their homes, and otherwise comply with international law.”
As The Intercept has often documented, the attempt to criminalize or otherwise outlaw activism against the Israeli government is easily one of the greatest threats to free speech both in the U.S. and the West generally, if not the single greatest threat. The anti-BDS laws in particular have been rapidly proliferating in the U.S., directly threatening core free speech rights of American citizens in the name of protecting a foreign country.
As this map, previously published by The Intercept and prepared by Palestine Legal, illustrates, and as the court correctly observed, “twenty-five states have enacted legislation or issued executive orders restricting boycotts of Israel,” and “in every state to consider such legislation, the proposed measures have passed by considerable margins.”
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2019-04-30 at 12:46 AM UTC in Is this Rattox..?Joo lies? Uhh, the entire war on terror is joo lies, buddy. It's all a scam. And this dumbass fell for it.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-04-30 at 12:03 AM UTC in Literally Nothing MattersThis thread made me think of that movie with Jim Belushi training an apprentice hitman for the mafia. They throw a knife at a phone book, and the name that the tip sticks into is the first person the apprentice has to kill. It turns out to be a depressed suicidal goth type woman. But when they fire a shot at her and miss, she realizes someone's trying to kill her, and stops being depressed, tries to track down and kill both the hitmen. She ends up being recruited at the end. That was a cool film.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-04-29 at 7:45 PM UTC in Texas Federal Court Becomes the Third to Strike Down Pro-Israel Oath as Unconstitutionallol everyone replying isn't even American
No point reading it if you're not American.
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But basically, the governor is a faggot, signed a bill into law that forced people to take an oath stating that they wouldn't boycott Israel, and the federal court declared the law is unconstitutional. Pretty simple. Governor needs to be shot in the guts and plowed under for fertilizerThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2019-04-28 at 9:07 PM UTC in Who wants to meet up and beat up lesbiansLike you've actually got the balls to attack a Trump supporter. LOL
The only lesbians that really deserve it are the man-hating ones. Most of them are just minding their own business.
Try attacking Trump supporters, they statistically own a lot more guns than your ilk. Hopefully one will put a 357 hollow point in your silly gay ass.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2019-04-29 at 7:07 PM UTC in Russian army has "super soldiers"
Originally posted by -SpectraL Are you O_RLY, We'reAllBrownNosers?
Nope, I introduced him to the community though. We used to both fuck around on teenchat.com
Hackers liked it because the owner didn't care if you fucked with the site, as long as you didn't actually fuck it up. There was this one Muslim hacker, who was actually pretty damn good. O RLY would probably know who I'm talking about.
Pretty sure he is several years younger than me though. Why would you think I might be O RLY?
EDIT: I sent a lot of people from teenchat and optichat to totse and zoklet lolzThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2019-04-29 at 5:37 PM UTC in Manual Labor
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson The good thing about manual labor is you don't need to go to the gym…think of it as paid exercise…that's what I always tell my underlings.
Women also like a handy man. I know a guy who is ex military, but after he got out of the military, owned several businesses, made shitloads of money, and still did manual labor just for the practice and exercise. He'd have an entire crew of people working for him, sometimes they wouldn't even know he was their boss, and he'd get in and work with them, doing their job better than they could. He's never had any trouble attracting women because he can fix pretty much anything. Taught me how to solder and sweat copper and a bunch of other stuff. That's why I'd work for free sometimes, just to learn a trade. Even if the economy collapses and the money is worthless, the person that knows several trades is going to be better off than the person working in an office, because they can actually fix stuff, do things that are actually useful.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2019-04-28 at 10:02 PM UTC in What are you miserable fucks up to these days?
Originally posted by gadzooks I have to admit that I'm pretty skeptical of the whole notion of "free energy".
I mean, it would require that we completely rewrite Newtonian physics. That's quite a ways to go.
But then again, Einstein did pretty much just that, so who knows?
The laws of physics don't always have to be violated. For example, there is no such thing as a "closed system". So entropy doesn't always have to increase in that context.
Goes back to the Tesla days. Free energy technology is disruptive because the world economy revolves around oil, non-renewables. That is why the Navy's patent, if tested, is highly classified. Reading the patent and seeing actual tests of it, are different things. A lot of Tesla's work, particularly his dynamic theory of gravity, are also highly classified. The FBI seized all his secrets in his safe when he died.
He said one day our machines will be powered by the same energy that makes planets revolve around the sun. If you control inertia effectively, a rotor or flywheel can reach incredible speeds with an extremely small amount of input energy, and you'll end up extracting more energy than you put in. Overunity. It's real.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2019-04-28 at 9:50 PM UTC in What are you miserable fucks up to these days?
Originally posted by inert_observer You’re definitely not the only original totse member left, there are a lot of people here that were on totse. Were you even on totse? I thought you were dh or one of those other forums for baggers
Yep, I was kind of an asshat. I spammed goatse and tubgirl everywhere, forced them to shrink the image size in posts. I used to hang out in zok's channel a lot. If you have to ask me though, you're probably a dumb faggot anyways.
Toothlessjerkoff?
Anyway, I only joined in 03, but unlike everyone else, the concept of totse was important to me. Not just making "witty" or funny posts. Freedom of information.
Totse kinda turned into SLC punk at the end. People had to grow up, get "careers", some of them ended up wearing suits and ties like faggots. Best of luck to them though. I will be a rebel till death.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2019-04-28 at 8:40 PM UTC in Nigger rapes 88 year old womanThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-04-25 at 8:14 PM UTC in Make sure y'all crackas knowSome good avatars in this threadThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-04-23 at 9:58 PM UTC in This is why I have got to become a programming masterlol californiaThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-04-23 at 11:41 PM UTC in Today I Learned the FBI Sent MLK Letters Telling Him to Kill HimselfThe FBI belongs in the garbage.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-04-24 at 12:22 AM UTC in Do you ever feel like you need to masturbate for your health?Yes I do. People here like to call someone a pervert if they're not in a relationship and jack off instead. Can't help it if women are complicated, overly picky and require too much effort.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-04-23 at 10:48 PM UTC in Tell me something weird about yourself.
Originally posted by Malice Have you read about the "flow" state? Allegedly people tend to be happiest when they're in it or happier the larger the percentage of their time they spend in it, but I'm particularly skeptical of anything pop-sciency as it tends to be wildly inaccurate or inaccurately portrayed. This is very plausible, though.
Still, this is a recurrent theme I've seen. Is a constant state of distraction really something that should be strived for, truly satisfying and fulfilling, or does it just make an empty existence more bearable and keep away the thoughts of the complete lack of fundamental meaning that pervades conscious existence? A career, wife, children. It's a type of hell to me, but I really can't blame anyone for choosing it and would even consider it the best choice for some, although this wasn't always the case. That doesn't mean I consider it good, just an understandable escape from the pain of being alone and alive.
Hmm.
What is weird to a dutch person anyway? They're possibly even weirder than germans. Animal porn, CHILD PORN, scat porn. They're so liberal...The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2019-04-24 at 12:19 AM UTC in best way to dox someoneNo reason to waste time on antifa. Not worth the effort. But you could just start stalking them IRL, learn their entire routine, and start paying weird homeless people to show up where they work and act like they're in a gay relationship or something. "I know you're cheating on me!!!"The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-04-23 at 10:55 PM UTC in why are so many women bisexual?That guy is going to end up like Rocket from "The breaks"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Breaks_(1999_film)The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2019-04-23 at 11:25 PM UTC in Do you think you'll ever get married?Probably not. That would require effort beyond simply saving the world from the reptilians.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-04-23 at 11:24 PM UTC in Trump will not win the election.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!