February 2020 Current Events Thread: Warren 2020: WITNESSED

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CRUSTY MINGE: Mar 30, 2011; Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

Ken Bone Comeback posted:

Morgan Freeman in Deep Impact is my president

Thank gently caress I'm not the only one that remembers and likes this movie.

Jack Nicholson in Mars Attacks! as my follow up, tied with Terry Crews in Idiocracy.

Shamelessly stolen from a wordpress somewhere:

# ? Feb 10, 2020 21:59

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# ? Jun 8, 2024 16:56

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

Totally-not-George-Dubya in Transformers is mine

Dude just wants some ding dongs

# ? Feb 10, 2020 22:03

Softface: Feb 16, 2011; Some things can't be unseen

There is only one fictional president worth talking about and it's J.K. Simmons in Red Alert 3.

# ? Feb 10, 2020 22:03

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

Softface posted:

There is only one fictional president worth talking about and it's J.K. Simmons in Red Alert 3.

gently caress

https://youtu.be/0rjiplsMDz0

# ? Feb 10, 2020 22:05

Casimir Radon: Aug 2, 2008

Softface posted:

There is only one fictional president worth talking about and it's J.K. Simmons in Red Alert 3.

Ray Wise in RA2 plays the most generic president imaginable.

# ? Feb 10, 2020 22:09

Arc Light: Sep 26, 2013

bulletsponge13 posted:

And how can your favorite fictional President not be a tie between David Palmer from 24 and Thomas Whitmore from ID4?

Because neither of them is Harrison Ford in Air Force One?

# ? Feb 10, 2020 22:11

fknlo: Jul 6, 2009; Fun Shoe

Hekk posted:

I haven't seen Fast and Furious movies but I did watch the Hobbes and Shaw one. We had time to kill and my son and I caught it in a matinee. Movie was good dumb fun. It looked like they had a pile of ideas for stupidly fun action scenes and threw veneer of a script together to somehow, if you completely suspend your disbelief, tie everything together.

Everything after like Tokyo Drift is basically a superhero movie and they're much more enjoyable through that lens.

# ? Feb 10, 2020 22:19

Internet Wizard: Aug 9, 2009; BANDAIDS DON'T FIX BULLET HOLES

You can safely ignore any F&F movie before Fast Five since the franchise makes a huge shift at that point (for the better). If you enjoy 5 you should go back and enjoy the insanity of 3, though. 2 is the worst of the series, and 4 is just kind of meh.

# ? Feb 10, 2020 22:26

UP THE BUM NO BABY: Sep 1, 2011; by Hand Knit

https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1226933677361389571?s=19

# ? Feb 10, 2020 22:40

BigDave: Jul 14, 2009; Taste the High Country

Ken Bone Comeback posted:

Morgan Freeman in Deep Impact is my president

Jack Ryan is my (actual) president.

A gutless little turd who constantly whines and cries about how nobody listens to him and his CLEARLY SUPERIOR INTELLECT.

# ? Feb 10, 2020 22:40

EBB: Feb 15, 2005

UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1226933677361389571?s=19

# ? Feb 10, 2020 22:47

bulletsponge13: Apr 28, 2010

Arc Light posted:

Because neither of them is Harrison Ford in Air Force One?

gently caress.
Ok, three way tie. Because AF1 loving rules.

# ? Feb 10, 2020 22:51

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

"Get off my plane" is such a great line

# ? Feb 10, 2020 23:11

facialimpediment: Feb 11, 2005; as the world turns

There's a bit of a new development on the Donnie Orangeglo picture.

https://twitter.com/farhip/status/1226987107891208192?s=19

It's not really that the photographer finally spoke out about it. It's that the WaPo/Bloomberg pictures taken at the same time actually look worse.

# ? Feb 10, 2020 23:13

A Bad Poster: Sep 25, 2006; Seriously, shut the fuck up.

He really would look creepier without the facepaint. Like a Burger King addicted Emperor Palpatine.

# ? Feb 10, 2020 23:16

Icon Of Sin: Dec 26, 2008

Instead of force lightning, he gets forced shits (pointed at everyone else)

# ? Feb 10, 2020 23:17

BurningChrome: Jan 18, 2020; They said she cooked her own cancers for people who crossed her, rococo custom variations that took years to kill you. They said a lot of things about Chrome, none of them at all reassuring.

A Bad Poster posted:

He really would look creepier without the facepaint. Like a Burger King addicted Emperor Palpatine.

# ? Feb 10, 2020 23:31

Madurai: Jun 26, 2012

bulletsponge13 posted:

And how can your favorite fictional President not be a tie between David Palmer from 24 and Thomas Whitmore from ID4?

Because it's Henry Fonda from Fail Safe.

# ? Feb 10, 2020 23:34

egyptian rat race: Jul 13, 2007; Lowtax Spine Fund 2019; Ultra Carp

Eej posted:

"Get off my plane" is such a great line

If the apollo-style escape capsule in AF1 is real, it wouldn't work for cheeto benito cause he'd be over the weight limit. Like a toddler in a carseat that's too small

# ? Feb 11, 2020 00:14

Abongination: Aug 18, 2010; Life, it's the shit that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come.; Pillbug

# ? Feb 11, 2020 00:16

Patware: Jan 3, 2005

he's just a regular boy

# ? Feb 11, 2020 00:17

Doc Hawkins: Jun 15, 2010; Dashing? But I'm not even moving!

egyptian rat race posted:

If the apollo-style escape capsule in AF1 is real, it wouldn't work for cheeto benito cause he'd be over the weight limit. Like a toddler in a carseat that's too small

i thought that was in Escape from New York

# ? Feb 11, 2020 00:24

shame on an IGA: Apr 8, 2005

bulletsponge13 posted:

And how can your favorite fictional President not be a tie between David Palmer from 24 and Thomas Whitmore from ID4?

Samuel L Jackson in Big Game but I can forgive you all because I know literally no one outside Finland saw that movie.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 00:30

Eej: Jun 17, 2007; HEAVYARMS

I guess this is my ongoing crusade at this point but

�I was raped at 14, and the video ended up on a porn site� - BBC

quote:

A few months later, Rose was browsing MySpace when she found several people from her school sharing a link. She was tagged. Clicking on it, Rose was directed to the pornography-sharing site, Pornhub. She felt a wave of nausea as she saw several videos of the attack on her.

"The titles of the videos were 'teen crying and getting slapped around', 'teen getting destroyed', 'passed out teen'. One had over 400,000 views," Rose recounts.

"The worst videos were the ones where I was passed out. Seeing myself being attacked where I wasn't even conscious was the worst."

She made an instant decision to not tell her family about the videos - most of them had not been supportive anyway. Telling them would achieve nothing.

Within days it was evident that most of her peers at school had seen the videos.

"I was bullied," she says, "People would say that I asked for it. That I led men on. That I was a slut."

***

Rose says she emailed Pornhub several times over a period of six months in 2009 to ask for the videos to be taken down.

"I sent Pornhub begging emails. I pleaded with them. I wrote, 'Please, I'm a minor, this was assault, please take it down.'"

She received no reply and the videos remained live.

"The year that followed I withdrew into myself. I disassociated," she recalls, "I felt nothing. Numb. I kept to myself."

She would wonder, with every stranger who made eye contact with her, if they had seen the videos.

"Had they got off to it? Had they gratified themselves to my rape?"

She couldn't bear to look at herself. That's why she covered the mirrors with blankets. She would brush her teeth and wash in the dark, thinking all the time about who could be watching the videos.

Then she had an idea.

She set up a new email address posing as a lawyer, and sent Pornhub an email threatening legal action.

"Within 48 hours the videos disappeared."

***

One day in 2019, as she was scrolling through her social media feed she saw a number of posts about Pornhub. People were praising it for donating to bee conservation charities, adding caption facilities for deaf viewers, donating to aid domestic violence charities and providing $25,000 scholarships for women who want to enter the tech industry.

According to Pornhub, there were 42 billion visits to its website in 2019 - an increase of 8.5 billion from the year before, with a daily average of around 115 million. And 1,200 searches per second.

"It's impossible to miss Pornhub if you use social media," says Rose. "They've done a great job at positioning themselves as a 'woke' mission, almost transcending porn, but videos titled like mine are still on the site. There's no way of knowing if there are rapes on there and the victims don't know it."

In the viral blog post, Rose shared a detailed account of her rape, and called out Pornhub for turning a blind eye until she pretended to be a lawyer. Dozens of women and some men responded to her post, saying that videos showing them being sexually abused had also appeared on the site.

In a statement to the BBC, Pornhub said: "These horrific allegations date back to 2009, several years prior to Pornhub being acquired by its current owners, so we do not have information on how it was handled at that time. Since the change in ownership, Pornhub has continuously put in place the industry's most stringent safeguards and policies when it comes to combating unauthorised and illegal content, as part of our commitment to combating child sex abuse material. The company employs Vobile, a state-of-the-art third party fingerprinting software, which scans any new uploads for potential matches to unauthorised material and makes sure the original video doesn't go back up on the platform."

When asked why videos with titles similar to those uploaded featuring Rose's rape, such as "teen abused while sleeping", "drunk teen abuse sleeping" and "extreme teen abuse" are still active on Pornhub, the company said: "We allow all forms of sexual expression that follow our Terms of Use, and while some people may find these fantasies inappropriate, they do appeal to many people around the world and are protected by various freedom of speech laws."

Pornhub introduced a flagging tab for inappropriate content in 2015, but stories about videos of abuse on the website continue to surface.

In October last year a 30-year-old Florida man, Christopher Johnson, faced charges for sexually abusing a 15-year-old. Videos of the attack had been posted on Pornhub.

In a statement to the BBC regarding this case, Pornhub said its policy is to "remove unauthorised content as soon as we are made aware of it, which is exactly what we did in this case".

In 2019 Pornhub also removed a channel called Girls Do Porn, when 22 women sued it for forcing them to take part in videos, and the channel's owners were charged with sex trafficking.

"People may say that what happened to me a decade ago isn't a reality of today, but that is simply not the case," says Rose.

"Women have told me that it is still happening, after they saw my blog. And these are Western women with access to social media.

"I don't doubt that videos in other parts of the world, in places we know porn is consumed in large bulks like the Middle East and Asia are places where the victim might not even be aware that their abuse is being shared."

# ? Feb 11, 2020 00:37

facialimpediment: Feb 11, 2005; as the world turns

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https://twitter.com/Bernstein/status/1226928996056813568?s=19

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# ? Feb 11, 2020 00:57

Bell_: Sep 3, 2006; Tiny Baltimore
A billion light years away
A goon's posting the same thing
But he's already turned to dust
And the shitpost we read
Is a billion light-years old
A ghost just like the rest of us

For presidents, there's always the temptation for me to pull the lever for President not-Palin from Iron Sky.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 01:00

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

President Danny Glover in 2012

# ? Feb 11, 2020 01:25

Radical 90s Wizard: Aug 5, 2008; ~SS-18 burning bright,
Bathe me in your cleansing light~

Im in small town NZ and supermarkets are sold out of hand-sanitizer and face-masks :psyduck:

# ? Feb 11, 2020 01:27

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

Which small town

# ? Feb 11, 2020 01:29

Hekk: Oct 12, 2012; 'smeper fi

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Which small town

Auckland obviously.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 01:32

Abongination: Aug 18, 2010; Life, it's the shit that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come.; Pillbug

The ambulance service here in Perth, Australia is rationing masks now. They�ve been cleared out nation wide.

First the bushfires, now whatever is left is getting sent to China.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 01:36

Radical 90s Wizard: Aug 5, 2008; ~SS-18 burning bright,
Bathe me in your cleansing light~

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Which small town

Te Puke. I havent even heard anyone here talk about coronavirus

E) lol according to my fam, masks are sold out in Wellington and going for $30 each in Auckland

Radical 90s Wizard fucked around with this message at 01:52 on Feb 11, 2020

# ? Feb 11, 2020 01:47

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

My sympathies

# ? Feb 11, 2020 01:51

Radical 90s Wizard: Aug 5, 2008; ~SS-18 burning bright,
Bathe me in your cleansing light~

Yea its a real shithole, papamoa beach owns though.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 01:54

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

For the Americans, Te Puke is incredibly well named

# ? Feb 11, 2020 02:00

BigDave: Jul 14, 2009; Taste the High Country

That Works posted:

President Danny Glover in 2012

Sorry, he's too old.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 02:08

Flying_Crab: Apr 12, 2002

# ? Feb 11, 2020 02:28

Mr. Nice!: Oct 13, 2005; bone shaking.
soul baking.

Vermin's feeling the bern.

# ? Feb 11, 2020 02:33

Hot Karl Marx: Mar 16, 2009; Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1227040292060180481

# ? Feb 11, 2020 02:35

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# ? Jun 8, 2024 16:56

Hekk: Oct 12, 2012; 'smeper fi

Hot Karl Marx posted:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1227040292060180481

# ? Feb 11, 2020 02:41

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