Quote by RowanThorn

Same way the Trump victory propelled the BLM movement and radicalized the youth vote to the far left. Because the only way you can get the Democrats to oppose a crime against humanity is to have a Republican in office.

American protesters flooding the streets is the only way anything will change in Palestine. Because the function of a Biden or Trump presidency in regards to Palestine is exactly the same. A racist, genocidal colonial attack supported by people like you.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps perpetuate it. He who accepts evil without protesting it is really cooperating with it.

So you're protest voting to punish the Democrats so they can learn a lesson with a Republican's victory?

What an incredibly privileged perspective. You want an exponential amount of people to continue suffering in unfathomable ways. Ways that you, yourself, won't suffer in the slightest (at the very least, not to the extent that those will far less privilege than you will suffer), all so a political party learns a lesson. And you genuinely believe you have the moral high ground here? And don't give me that shit about "I don't wanna go with a candidate that supports genocide" while salivating at the idea that your throwaway vote yields catastrophic results because you want other people's suffering to galvanize politicians.

It would be different (still stupid, but less disgusting) if you were choosing party over principle. But you know you're using your throwaway vote to siphon votes to the Republican party so that they win, because you'll feel vindicated when things go to shit. It's quite hypocritical of you to throw away your vote because you don't want a candidate that supports genocide (fair enough), but your intention is that there's even more suffering to teach the Democrats a lesson. How is that better?

Your "stance" is so empty. "I'm voting third party because I refuse to support a candidate who is funding a genocide, because I know the Republicans, who will also continue to fund a genocide and bring about even more suffering and the loss of rights in ways that ultimately won't impact me, will win, and teach the other party a lesson."

Ew.

Quote by PrincessC

Totally, they should just abolish democracy and force people to vote the way you want them too. Why give people a choice am I right?

LMAO.

Totally. Because pointing out how protest votes are counterproductive is the same thing as abolishing democracy. This isn’t a false equivalency at all.

Quote by WellMadeMale

If that's all you gather from skimming my posts concerning Biden vs Trump, you'd be better served ignoring everything that flies off my fingers. I campaigned for Bernie Sanders in 2015-16 until he dropped out of the nomination race. I also supported Bernie in 2020, again, until the Dems shut the door on him.

We can thank Joe Biden for many political catastrophes - such as Clarence Thomas making it onto the Supreme Court - after Biden joined with Republicans to humiliate, ignore and crush Anita Hill's testimony in 1991. You should probably also thank Obama for selecting Biden as his running mate in 2008 - which further elevated the verbal gaff-machine in the Dem party.

There's plenty of blame to go around when it comes to the Israeli/Palestine relationship since 1948. I have never read any positive solutions/suggestions for how Biden/America is supposed to proceed with dealing with the nationalistic warmongers who are large and in charge of the Israeli military and law enforcement. Perhaps America shouldn't have been supporting Israel with billion$ of discounts to purchase state of the art weaponry from American manufacturing profiteers. Trump didn't end any of that during his first term in office, but neither have any US Presidents going back nearly 75 years.

I get that you would feel safer if NATO was completely disbanded and all member nations split apart and Europe was ripe for the picking by Putin's war machine. Trump and Biden are a couple of assholes, they've both made numerous bad decisions over the entirety of their lifetimes. But Biden has never attempted a coup nor acted like a dictator.

For my entire lifetime, there has been at least one major war occurring somewhere in this world. And when there hasn't been one, two or three major wars (Iran vs Iraq, Korea vs NATO, genocide on the African continent in multiple different countries, Central American wars fought by proxy America/Soviet Union, too many wars and skirmishes for me to keep track of. It appears that humans are good at procreation and at killing & maiming one another.

My Biden boner is born of not wanting to see Trump anywhere near the oval office again. But you be you, youngling.

Out of curiosity, is there a reason every time I challenge your devotion to the Democratic party, you immediately jump to assuming my belief system and then make up a shit ton of "counterpoints" on my behalf to which I don't subscribe?

I ask because I've made it abundantly clear that I believe the two-party system is fucked. The Democrats become more right-leaning by the day because they're a self-serving party just like the others. Refusal to hold one's party accountable leads to the shit show that is our current election system. Downplaying the missteps of the party to which you're loyal to point the finger at another is ignorant at best.

I'm honestly baffled at why you feel so threatened every time someone rightfully points out how the Dems have been such a letdown while also acknowledging that no one sane with this country's best interests in mind wants Trump anywhere near American government. I don't need to be convinced of this, as I'm fully aware. But also, the Dems fucking suck. Biden is a shit show, just less so than Trump...for the most part.

Being a better choice than Trump as your main running point is fucking insane.

Quote by RowanThorn

I really don’t care what you do. I’m addressing what you said, not you.

???

Ignore who you want or be opposed to the viewpoints of those you view as trolls all you like. But please don't play the "I'm not talking to you game", especially when responding to and/or directly quoting someone.

As you said, this is a public forum, where all are free to chime in, as you're well aware. If you're opposed to certain viewpoints/voices, use your block feature and keep it moving.

Don't engage and then whine under the guise of being above it all.

As for anyone else, if you can't make your point without senseless trolling and/or disgusting insults (I literally read adults refer to another human being as a fucking monkey and then act completely nonchalant when it was pointed out, and then double down on the monkey insult, holy shit), then you need not participate.

Quote by WellMadeMale

That's exactly what the Trump administration did - to our fellow Americans from the earliest days of Covid 19 beginning to spread until he took his last special treatment to fix him up after his own Covid health struggles. Genocide.

This Biden boner shit is weird.

It's one thing to acknowledge and accept that Biden is the shiniest turd and is the only realistic option (not a third party vote, which is a pipe dream at this point. It's deluded to believe otherwise.) unless this hellscape becomes even more so. But the outright refusal to hold him accountable and damn near nominate the guy for sainthood is fucking astounding. All the "But Trump" shit is the same thing the right is doing re: Biden.

Biden is a senile war criminal who had a hand in one of the most heinous, racist crime bills in American history, and is currently funding a genocide. He's constantly pissing on legs and calling it rain because he's aware that he can get away with it because "At least I'm not Trump." And here you are, lapping it up. What a low fucking bar.

Yikes.

I'll be on your standby for your next "I've been around for ages, and you youngins don't know like I know" rant.

Quote by HornyBill

I am not in disagreement with you, but being a convicted criminal does not disqualify a person from running for or winning the office of president.

Which is absolutely bogus. If you can hold the highest position in this country as a convicted felon, then no job should be allowed to consider felony charges in their application/hire process.

Quote by HornyBill

I assume you like titties. ;)

Huh? What gave you that impression?

I like titties.

I like baking.

I like going on walks.

I like getting my nails/toes done.

I like titties.

I like playing on my Nintendo Switch (I don't wanna hear it, die-hard gamers).

I like driving.

I like vegging out.

I like spending time with friends.

I like going on dates.

I like titties.

I LOVE music.

I like binging the shows I watched growing up where available.

I like titties.

Quote by Magical_felix

Obviously you’re worried that Biden will win so you’re scared of wellmademale’s gentleman’s challenge.

Please ease up with the obvious trolling.

Not everyone has the sensibilities to handle it, and I'd rather not deal with the impending spiral. Thanks.

Serious question: Is everything okay, bud?

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, who’s currently failing in her quest to become Donald Trump’s running mate, gets caught lying about meeting Kim Jong Un. How shitty of a politician do you have to be to be so awful at lying?

Quote by Magical_felix

You're projecting

Yeah, I have a Mrs. Doubtfire fetish. I admit it.

Quote by Magical_felix

Fit check

Shut up. You know you'd bang.

God you're so bad at masking your sexual tension.

Anything can be a buttplug if you're not a coward.

Quote by WellMadeMale

That's synonymous with saying: Legalized Casino gambling needs to vaporize and be no more.

Neither event will occur in our lifetimes. But it's a rosey thought.

To be fair, ending legalized casino gambling would do significantly more to punish the rich than a sudden and permanent upheaval of the stock market.

Quote by RowanThorn

You’re under the impression that the stocks crash and then it’s business as usual after a few months. It’s a failed economy that holds no base in the reality of company performance.

The stock market needs to go away. When I say it crashes, it should not come back.

You're starting to sound a lot like that guy who ran all those troll accounts that plagued this place, just on the other end of the political spectrum. Nothing rooted in reality and an abject refusal to consider facts that don't conform to your very circular grasp of logic. Yikes.

I like pizza toast because it's great when I'm craving a slice or two of pizza instead of a whole pizza.

I got my latest go-to recipe off a home-taught chef's , but it's garlic bread. If it's sliced thin, then I do a layer of cheese before the sauce so it doesn't get soggy. Mozzarella (duh), shit ton of pepperoni, classic marinara sauce, drizzle of honey, and fresh basil.

Quote by RowanThorn

Well, 90% of all stock is owned by the richest 10%. The other 10% is owned by the richest 50-90 percentile.

So I know who would get fucked now. Also I only bank with federally insured credit unions so my money is protected.

So, the rich will lose their shirts and the poor are relatively safe as those federal insurances cap out after about 200k per account. So the stock market crashing will most dramatically impact the richest people who’s entire fortune is kept in the tax have that is the stock market. And since it’s overvalued anyway we’ll succeed in wealth distribution pretty much immediately.

LMAO

Quote by notjustanyguy

I would hate to have to moderate the chatrooms there however!

They would most likely consist of you vetting conversations about all the yeast infections resulting from those god awful bath bombs.

Quote by deviantsusie

I’m sorry if I come across as a paranoid delusional but I feel since the move to lush 2.0 there has bern more interest and development in the other aspects of the community here than in the stories. In my original post, I merely questioned if this rebrand on mobile devices was the first step in an acknowledgment that Lush is more than just the stories. If it is, that’s fine but be honest about it. You might vote Tory but you are still voting for the Conservative Party so you might refer to Lush but people still publish their stories on lushstories.

Huh? I'm not really understanding the whole "first step in an acknowledgment that Lush is more than just the stories." When have we not acknowledged as much? As far as I'm aware, we've always acknowledged that Lush is about more than just stories, with stories being the heart of the site, which is why they take centerstage in branding.

People typically come for the stories and stay for the community. We have moderators dedicated to the many facets of this site (story moderators, chat moderators, forum moderators, group moderators). The communal aspect of Lush, in my opinion, is what sets us apart from other smut story sites, so it'd be pretty counterintuitive on our part not to acknowledge that Lush is more than just the stories. It's something we've always done since before the switch to the new version of Lush.

Switching to just "Lush" dismisses the identity of this site that's rooted in stories. Not to mention, it'd be a shot in the foot because just Lush is a thriving (yet in my opinion shitty and overrated) cosmetics brand. No sense in fighting for our identity when we already have one, which is why that's not happening. As noted above, it was no more than a blip.

Quote by Magical_felix

What a stupid asshole

The people gloating on social media every time people made fun of this tanking ass stock was hilarious. They would all claim “You don’t know what you’re talking about. With the price drop, I’m gonna buy even more and sell it when raises again.”

The Boeing hearing that occurred yesterday featured testimonies from a whistleblower and other experts highlighting the declining quality of Boeing aircrafts due to skimping on quality checks and ignoring reported issues. This was due (shocker) to their prioritization of profits and making shareholders happy.

Boeing has an extensive history of problems ranging from "incidents" to straight up disasters, for which they always receive a slap on the wrist. Are there really gonna be significant repercussions for Boeing?

As a side note: I don't think Boeing would have had an opportunity to get to this point if the transportation system wasn't so fucked in the US.

Quote by Magical_felix

Can you be more specific. 100m, 400m, relays, marathon?

You can be so many ways, yet you choose to be this way.

Quote by Magical_felix

Looks like the Olympics felt the sting of the conservative boycott. Finally we have some MEN in an ad.

Race complaints loading in 5…4…3…2…

Quote by Magical_felix

Like with a little leaf covering the balls? At least God had leafs for both the pussy and balls so it’s equal.

But the original Olympics everyone was naked. Not just the women. Men got to be naked too.

So you just wanna see some schlong? Why didn't you just say so?

Quote by cydia

This is one of the most disturbing things I’ve seen in a while. Bravo.

Our good buddy DeSantis has signed a bill banning heat protection laws for outdoor workers. He abandoned his usual fanfare of signing bills via press conference and instead signed this one privately.

Quote by cloud

The entire purpose of the this site in my mind is freedom without judgement if there are going to be rules (excuse me stupid rules over a bit of virtual currency it is time for me to move along. I did not come and pay my money to have a housing association tell me what I can an cannot do. I like most came here to enjoy the interaction of whatever, porn, buildings, birds or BSDM, what ever I bloody well please. I agree with Vampire_vixen I will do as I damn well please with my coins.

This.

If you're here for the stories and believe only stories and their authors are worth Lush Coins, use them that way. If you think a nice pair of titties is worth Lush Coins, use them that way. The end.

Quote by Hasabrain2

Just want to add in Jardiance commercial, an overweight man with man boobs can work the copier until the woman (who sings through the commercial) plugs it in. In another ad, a young man is selling a car through his phone; his Grandmother tells him to use Carvana. Later in the ad, the grandmother needs help with a tech problem but tells her grandson she will ask his sister.

LMAOOOO.

Why are you like this?

Also, consider a different username. It's clearly a misnomer.

Quote by Magical_felix

Thread isn't about biologic male athletes competing with biological female athletes for women's medals... It's about how there is a genocide being conducted on American men.

Out trolling the troll that made this original troll post. Nice.

This effort could have been extended elsewhere more productively, but whatevs I guess.