UK Citizens Use Death Standing 2 to Bypass Porn Blocks
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Walliwallipaloo
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If the government invokes the word "safety," be assured that safety has nothing to do with it. It just means it's time for tyranny.
Yes. One waged everyday between retarded gang-bangers in a constant race to see whose brain is smallest.
Like clockwork, invoked by one who has been caught peddling bullshit. Just don't do that - otherwise expect to be called out. Believe me, as an American, I'm sick to death of hearing about "muh gun crime" from Europeans - smug UK-stanians no less (who now live in a violent dystopia of murder and rape, ironically) - who pretend that some 70% of all violent crime in the US doesn't come from gun-control cities and gang-"culture" thugs.
I guess there is nothing else to say about the topic that isn't overtly political. The UK sucks. DS2 has some pretty good facial animations. It should be funny but it's too dystopian to elicit anything more than a disappointed sigh at best.
Also, just stop watching porn. You don't need the UK's "safety" laws to tell you that it's bad for you. And no, I'm not talking about sexy visual novels, or romantic stuff with an actual plot, or cheesecake or whatever. Shit like Pornhub is where your heart, soul, and brain go to die. There's your Public Service Announcement.
Yes. One waged everyday between retarded gang-bangers in a constant race to see whose brain is smallest.
Like clockwork, invoked by one who has been caught peddling bullshit. Just don't do that - otherwise expect to be called out. Believe me, as an American, I'm sick to death of hearing about "muh gun crime" from Europeans - smug UK-stanians no less (who now live in a violent dystopia of murder and rape, ironically) - who pretend that some 70% of all violent crime in the US doesn't come from gun-control cities and gang-"culture" thugs.
I guess there is nothing else to say about the topic that isn't overtly political. The UK sucks. DS2 has some pretty good facial animations. It should be funny but it's too dystopian to elicit anything more than a disappointed sigh at best.
Also, just stop watching porn. You don't need the UK's "safety" laws to tell you that it's bad for you. And no, I'm not talking about sexy visual novels, or romantic stuff with an actual plot, or cheesecake or whatever. Shit like Pornhub is where your heart, soul, and brain go to die. There's your Public Service Announcement.
Aenima
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SILKYSMOOTH30FPS
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Correction- Trudeau The Fucker did. He gone. The replacement isn't hot, but it's also not Trudeau.
I collect VHS tapes
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99% of it is gang violence in south ChicagoIs there a war in Chicago I haven't heard about?
Walliwallipaloo
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They're still weaponizing the banks up there.
Which data are you basing this claim on?
P:axMagellanic
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As the UK moves ever closer to being a dystopian hellhole, gamers find a creative solution to access their favourite porn sites:
UK Citizens Using Death Stranding 2 on PS5 to Bypass Porn Blocks
Thank you, Kojimawww.pushsquare.com
"Those of you living in the UK will be aware of the introduction of a set of "safety measures" which will require you to disclose your identity in order to access adult content. This obviously includes porn sites, but has also rolled out on services like Discord and Reddit.
Not every site implements the security measures in the same way, but some require you to scan your face using a smartphone camera in order to confirm you're of a certain age. It's a potentially dystopian development which raises concerns about all kinds of personal security risks.
While many of the verification companies claim photos won't be stored on their servers, it's perfectly understandable why people wouldn't want to participate in the process at all. So the obvious workaround is to use a VPN of some sort.
But creative Brits have also come up with another solution: scan Norman Reedus' face using Death Stranding 2: On the Beach's photo mode.
A lot of these security checks require you to complete a variety of different poses, like opening and closing your mouth, so the ability to select Reedus' facial expression comes in really handy here. And when you pair that with the overall quality of the character models in Kojima Productions' sequel, it all works a treat.
While we haven't personally tried it for ourselves, we've seen several people mention it on X (or Twitter), and PC Gamer wrote up a first-hand report as well.
We suppose if these safety measures can be so easily bypassed, then it's not massively different to the old "enter your age" verification forms we've all become accustomed to – it just takes a little more effort and nous than saying you were born in 1900 now.
It is pretty funny to think Reedus is about to become the most prolific gooner in the UK, though. He accessed Pornhub how many times in the last 30 minutes?!"
God bless Kojima and God bless the gamers of the UK!
People have been using pics of STASI Starmer.
StereoVsn
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That's the question, isn't it? Are Western countries going to go Chinese route and build their own Great Firewall, demand "real ID" to access the Internet (EU seems to be heading that way) and go full on dystopian?
I wonder how long before some of these countries start banning VPNs. Not that it's a perfect privacy tool, but they are an easy way to get past these blocks, and they'll eventual turn against anything that can give users even a bit of privacy online.
StereoVsn
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It is true and the Italian Senate is well known to be a true connoisseur of gaming erotica!
SILKYSMOOTH30FPS
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Ain't feeling any of it.
Walliwallipaloo
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The statistics are right there for you to find. This is a huge point of contention, and the groundwork has already been laid by those with a dog in this fight. It's not my fault that you don't want to cross ideological lines, and you would dismiss the data-collection efforts of your opponents out-of-hand. A fun further point is that if the gun-control cities were removed from the calculations, the United States would be the third safest country in the world. And that's with all the scary John and Jane Normals and their casual gun ownership.
Though it is impossible to discuss this topic without lightly touching on politics, I see no point in trying to engage in a political debate with you or anyone else on this topic in this forum. It would seem such things are frowned on here, and that's fair enough. No, really. It's totally fair.
Besides, I've been doing this for years. I know how it works. When someone says "oh, where's your data?!", they're not really interested in looking at said data, or having a discussion.
And I've said my piece on this topic. It's been such a sad week for the general state of humanity. Now I'm just going to go and focus on videogames. I mean, hell.
nkarafo
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Not being able to access porn easily is going to be one of the least severe problems in an islamic UK state.
kruis
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Indeed. It starts with "Won't somebody think of the children" and just a few days later X starts censoring controversial news for UK citizens unless they prove their ID.
It's literally this.
And why? Because discussion of illegal immigration and sexual exploitation is now unsuitable materal for minors and has to be auto censored by social media.
The next step will be even more censorship against "attacks on democracy". Democracy in this case isn't the democratic process ie elections, but the whole liberal system that are seen as the "pillars of democracy". Online criticism of Starmer's two-tier judges will be turned into an attack on democracy itself and will be punished. Same goes for severe criticism of the judicial system, the press, universities, the military, etc. This will be the way how the current political elite is going to combat populist right wing ideas and parties in order to stay in power.
P:axMagellanic
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kruis
Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
Help or hindrance? We asked the experts what the "bafflingly large, confusing" UK Online Safety Act could mean for video games
"The Act has really good intentions, [but] ultimately strengthens services it was meant to contain.”
www.eurogamer.net
Very good article on the ramifications of the Online Safety Act for gaming companies. I've added the most relevant parts here:
"From the moment the government had the idea of an Online Safety Bill and published its white paper on it in 2019, social media firms were in the crosshairs," says George Osborn, editor of Video Games Industry Memo who was head of campaign and communications at Ukie during the time of bill negotiations.
"However, the decision to bring all services that have user-to-user communication meant that games would get folded in," Osborn continues. "And even though the industry did respond to consultations, spoke with ministers and with the new regulator Ofcom, there was little to no effort to understand how the bill would hit games companies or much focus on them. It's why the 300-page act barely mentions games (I think it literally references it once), even though it puts loads of responsibilities on companies."
From today, any game with user-to-user communication (such as voice or text chat) that's available in the UK will need to follow the law. Broadly, Osborn explains, studios will need moderation tools to remove harmful content, better reporting processes, and measures in place to protect children if a game is accessible to them.
"That's the bare-bones version of the law," Osborn warns. "The reality is that a lawyer will likely tell you that you've got to do a hell of a lot more to meet the provisions of the 300-page act and the many volumes of guidance put out by Ofcom. And given that the regulator can dish out fines of up to £18m or 10 percent of your global turnover, and in some rare cases bang up a senior exec, it is something that you really need good advice on quickly."
He adds: "The only crumb of comfort is that Ofcom is still rolling out the final bits of the act and has said it'll take its time to fully enforce. But with games having historically been a target for moral panics and policymaker madness, you don't want to bet too closely on not being picked up."
"While most online platforms today have some flavour of content moderation, the new codes require things like 'swift action' on harmful content and determining appeals 'promptly', requiring a renewed focus on speed," he says.
"This reinforces the need for AI moderation (ideally in combination with humans!), as AI is the only way to maintain high speed at high scale when conducting this work. Further, these codes push platforms to more proactively monitor for harmful content, relying less on user reports alone - which is something we've been pushing for years, and a capability ToxMod is built to support from the very beginning."
AI will likely feature heavily in age verification tools. Just last week, Roblox introduced new safety features including an AI to estimate a teenager's age by taking a video selfie (a similar feature is being used on BlueSky, as of 25th July, too).
However, Osborn states the Act is "far too big for indies who have chat functions to comply with easily. Back when it was being passed," he says, "the bill was constantly referred to as a 'Christmas tree' because people kept whacking baubles onto it while it took years and years and years to pass. And the result of that is it empowered Big Tech and social media companies, rather than putting a muzzle on them. ( ...) But for small businesses including indie game developers who have the misfortune to have things like text and voice chat in their games, following all the rules is really hard." Even with the likes of Modulate and k-ID to assist, it remains hard for small businesses to comply in the short and long term, says Osborn.
Osborn notes the barrier for entry for developers has now been raised, and therefore favours "established big players over new market entrants".
"This means that if you want to enter the market with anything that's live-service and brings users together, you have to think about designing games with no meaningful chat functionality at all, limiting interactions to pre-programmed button based inputs, or embed something like Discord's social SDK into your game to shift the compliance burden elsewhere," he says.
Nocty
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It's pretty laughable people are up in arms all of a sudden about immigrants coming over here. Were a fucking island with excellent quality of living, safety from wars, and free health care / benefits. It's been that way for 60+ years and imigrants have been flocking here that entire time.
Immigration is not the problem, the shitty government is.
People that are under some illusion that the UK is some terrible hell hole to live in have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. I've lived in 7 countries by now at 38 and let me tell you even a stones throw away outside of the UIK standard of living tanks through the floor. I'm going to assume these people never left the UK before and are mad because a muslim moved in next door and the facebook algorithm told them that is bad.
Immigration is not the problem, the shitty government is.
People that are under some illusion that the UK is some terrible hell hole to live in have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. I've lived in 7 countries by now at 38 and let me tell you even a stones throw away outside of the UIK standard of living tanks through the floor. I'm going to assume these people never left the UK before and are mad because a muslim moved in next door and the facebook algorithm told them that is bad.
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Bojji
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UK is truly dystopian place but still below US in some statistics:
Immigrants are causing majority of social problems UK have now. Not all immigrants are bad - many of them are benefiting the country but CERTAIN people are much worse than others. ME Muslims and African Muslims are completely incompatible with first world countries. All those boat migrants will only suck your system dry, not working and staying in hotels. They also like watching schools and kindergartens...
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Fess
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Sweden. I'm not thinking about murder but all the talk about immigrants and muslims taking over and riots and demonstrations and assaults etc. Last 12 months there has been a ton of talk on X about how bad things are in the UK. Is it true or exaggerated political propaganda? Maybe there is some specific region that is worse than others?
Walliwallipaloo
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The people on facebook told them that these people are trolling around the streets and abducting, torturing, and killing young girls. And those people are right, because that's been happening for years now, and the government kicks in your door to arrest you if you complain.
Dystopian. Hell. Hole.
Nocty
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errrr
sorry but this is just blatant racism and a bit stupid to conclude. Again, if you haven't lived in the UK, you wouldn't know that the vast majority of national crime is comitted not by immigrants, but by what we call chavs who are 99% majority white guys in poor council housing.
The last Census outlined White British is 74.4% (44.4 million) of the UK population, followed quickly by 9.3% being of Asian decent. Your statement about ME muslims is hilariously innacurate, they are a tiny % of the population for a start.
Check here for the full statistics if you are unsure, christ alive. The best projections suggest a possible (*but highly unlikely*) drop from 74.4% White British to 73% or lower by 2050.
Ethnic Breakdown (England and Wales, 2021 Census):
- White: 81.7% (48.7 million)
- White British: 74.4% (44.4 million)
- Other White (e.g., Polish, Irish, Roma): 6.2% (3.7 million)
- Asian/Asian British: 9.3% (5.5 million)
- Indian: 3.1% (1.9 million)
- Pakistani: 2.7% (1.6 million)
- Bangladeshi: 1.1% (0.7 million)
- Chinese: 0.7% (0.4 million)
- Other Asian: 1.6% (0.9 million)
- Black/Black British: 4.0% (2.4 million)
- African: 2.5% (1.5 million)
- Caribbean: 1.0% (0.6 million)
- Other Black: 0.5% (0.3 million)
- Mixed/Multiple Ethnic Groups: 2.9% (1.7 million)
- Other Ethnic Groups: 2.1% (1.3 million)
- Arab: 0.6% (0.3 million)
- Any other ethnic group: 1.6% (0.9 million)
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Nocty
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Yeah, no. I'm not even going to bother to respond to you on that one. Touch grass please.
Walliwallipaloo
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2 + 2 = 5. Don't believe the evidence of your eyes. etc. etc.
If you really are a Brit, HELLO. Your country is burning. You are "this is fine" personified! And I can't tell if it's hilarious or not!
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Nocty
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The thread is about people using death stranding to avoid porn censorship law changes. I'm not really sure why you started dumping on about your hatred for brown people, dude.
I can literally roast you with stats all day long that prove you are uneducated. Based on 2021 Census data (England and Wales: 81.7% White, 9.3% Asian, 4% Black, 2.9% Mixed, 2.1% Other) and 2022-2024 crime statistics:
- Arrests (per 1,000): Black (17), White (10), Asian (8). Black individuals face over twice the arrest rate of Whites.
- Prosecutions: White (78%), Black (10%), Asian (7%). Black defendants are over-represented relative to their 4% population share.
- Homicides: Black suspects (20%) and Asian (9%) vs. White (64%). Black suspect rate is five times their population share.
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Walliwallipaloo
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I'm stating facts. It triggered you. This is what is literally happening in your country right now. Your country is an embarrassment. A joke. Worthy of only mockery, and cringe.
And your government's flex? Requiring selfies for online content. For ""safety."" In a country where it's not safe to walk around while being female. And people are locked up for complaining. Yes. THIS IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING.
What are you doing?
EDIT: I'm not doing this with you. This is ridiculous.
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kruis
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The British economy has been stagnant for almost a decade and when prices go up but wages don't, the effect is a country that's getting poorer with every passing year.
UK on course to be ‘poorer than Poland’ by 2030, claims Labour
Keir Starmer says his vision is the ‘only show in town’ that can boost economic growth
www.independent.co.uk
Parts of Britain now poorer than POLAND
EXCLUSIVE: Workers in Britain's poorest areas get by on around £14,300 a year - less than those in Eastern European countries including Hungary and Lithuania
These articles miss one important point: food, energy, etc is much more expensive in the UK than in Poland. So even if wages/benefits in the UK and Poland are the same in the UK, that Polish family lives in comfort while that British family has fuck all.
This random interview with a German woman who has lived in the UK for the past 10 years is a good example. Healthcare is in the dumps, you can't get a flat, cities are filthy and rundown, crime, etc. The whole of the UK has been on a downward trajectory and only the rich can pretend everything's fine.
A decade ago Eatern Europeans were coming to the UK in droves, now they are going back because the UK (especially the big cities) isn't a place where you'd want to raise a family. It's just sad.
IDKFA
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Bad enough to make me and my family want to escape. I'll leave it at that.
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Bojji
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Immigration is like ~1million every year so these 2021 statistics are different now, no need to wait for 2050.
And the best part is that it's RAPID with zero integration into society. Your country will at some point face the same problems that Yugoslavia had for decades - in ended in a very bloody way.
realcool
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The Chiraq WarIs there a war in Chicago I haven't heard about?
newtypepilot
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Walliwallipaloo
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And now it seems pretty clear that this "safety act" is really just a tool to censor the news and prevent Brits from realizing they live in a sad parody of 1984. It seems to be working, as a policy, for certain folks...
Mr Moose
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London: 36.8% White British.
The fact that it can be bypassed by this method shows no requirement to disclose ID, only age in some way. In the same way that you would go to buy alcohol or cigarettes in a shop and the store clerk judges by the look of your face or asks for ID. Do I like it if I'm asked for ID for these things as an adult? Not at all, but accessing 18+ pornographic material should require some form of age verification just as alcohol or cigarettes do. Whether people fake those IDs or get somebody that looks 18 to get it for them (in this case Sam Bridges) I don't think they care too much as long as the distributor is doing their due diligence to prevent children from accessing adult material in same way without liability. I don't think that initiative is disgusting or sick to be honest. The coverup was though.
Turkey has a complete internet block on porn I thought? No internal ISPs allow it at least.
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kruis
Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
This is funny but legally no record is kept of the verification. They're not allowed to keep anything about your ID or your face on any servers. Whether they follow this law though is another matter.I imagine the UK servers as a Norman Reedus version of this:
The statistics I can find indicate the UK has a murder rate of 1 around per 100k population, which puts it in the bottom 3rd of the country table. Looking at the per state data in the US, the safest states are just above this. So I don't see any data to support the claim that homicide rates in the UK are astronomically higher than in the safest parts of the US.
I operate on the opposite assumption to you. I think if someone isn't immediately willing to provide the data that they are using to make their claim, it probably isn't worth debating with them. That's why I asked for the data first, rather than making a bunch of claims or arguments which would probably get ignored.
ShaiKhulud1989
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Boy, cannot wait to see DS2 back in UK charts
winjer
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Our face is the most used identifiable thing we have. We use it everyday, when we interact with any other person. And it's a part of any proper identity document.
But there is one major consideration to have. If we buy something at a store that requires an id, the person on that shop just looks at it and that is it.
When it's used online, it stays stored. It can be used to create a profile about you. And you can be sure it will be.
It's a severe breach of privacy. And i can be made much worse, if there is a hack. Like the ones that are constantly occurring.
The other solution is much simpler, just have the parents use parental controls that come with every device. But of course, that would require parents to do their job, instead of forcing the whole of society to compromise it's privacy and security.
And let's be realistic here. A government that allows the rape of 3 thousand children for over a decade, doesn't really care about children.
That is the excuse, to force this law unto it's people.
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Mr Moose
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Massive drop in 60 years.
I'm a bit surprised Wales and North East England are in the 90%s.
Too lazy do to the face/ID thing, guess I'll have to do without porn.
The law prohibits any storage of ID or face in the age verification process. It's no different.
I agree. There are always those breaches of both privacy law by companies and of the systems they deploy by hackers. If they follow the law though the data shouldn't be stored anywhere so any hack would have to be very targeted to that verification time. No different than say looking at/hacking that CCTV in that shop you visited.
Walliwallipaloo
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I said violent crime. The murders in the US are not being committed by John and Jane Normal, either. Tiny minorities command more than sixty percent of the murders here. You really don't want to try to get into this. In fact, we're not, because the posts'll just end up being deleted and we'll have both wasted our time.
I'm glad to see that most people are aware of how fucked the UK is, though it's not that it's much of a comfort in the grand scheme, really. It's like concluding the car's a write-off after a bad hit, and we're all just kinda standing around it King of the Hill-style going "mm-hmm."
And there really is nothing else to say. Hate to be the escapist, but I'd like to think about something else other than British dystopia and their utter failure as a society. I'm out.
Savage, and oh-so-very true. God, I hate this.
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Aenima
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I was reading the age verification thing from X.com and they state any pic uploaded for age verification, that can be just a selfie or a copy of ID is stored for 30 days.
Also just recently an app called Tea for women only to talk shit about men had an ID verification process to make sure you was a real women, and now the app got hacked and all the IDs are being around 4chan. Some sites will definitely store your data for some time and i advise anyone to never upload your ID to any porn site or mobile app for age verification.
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StereoVsn
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Apparently now it's mostly illegal to even post social media messages that criticize immigration, abortion stances, protest hard core Islam and more.
There have been cases of police arresting people. It's complete and utter insanity.
That said, US is by far #1 in homicide rates across developed world. Because we have to have guns everywhere and it's apparently our god given right by the founders to carry them.
Hell, Republicans just made silencers widely available. Because you know, everyone ran with those in the 18th century.
onnextflix5
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even if you we're not talking out of your racist white ass it would still be better then the zionist controlled satanic anti Christian sate that we currently live in.
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