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  2. The sacrifice of being civilized. If a man or woman suspects their significant other of cheating, they don't have to catch them in the act of f8cking to confirm it. There's no shortage of signs. Reasonable-minded people can see & hear through the censor what's happening in that situation. Eliminating the conditions that lead to violence is the only deterrence. No amount of dead & mutilated bodies will stop people from harming & killing esch other. Movies & video games & wars have done more to normalize violence & desensitize people than anything else. Back in the 1980s, they thought Scared Straight would keep n8gglets from going to prison. There are more incarcerated people now. The cable channels I'm referring to are showing movies. Every now & then, the camera will catch a dead body or the mic will pick up somebody cussin'. The substance of the story is more important than crass visual & audio. Europeans have always been more open when it comes to s8x & nudity than their American cousins. Religion played a huge part in shaping American morality. Americans haven't totally abandoned their feelings about s8x & nudity. Just dress it up differently.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  3. Of course, I don't believe there is an intellectual decline within the Black community as there are more choices in where & how people choose to spend their time. Sure. Shared interests will draw people into the same spaces. The laws of mutual attraction will prevail. Intelligence & Jazz music & consciousness are acquired tastes. Certain men & women are attracted to those things. Intelligent people often get clowned on for being too smart or heavy in conversation. Sometimes, they're labelled book worms or nerds or geeks. Most people prefer simple conversations & doing simple things. Many women like bad dudes over intellectuals. An intellectual dude who is rough around the edges is extremely attractive to women. There's a reason the late NF Jr. didn't have women flocking around him. ๐Ÿคฃ Most women are interested in men who are interesting to them & have the ability to provide & protect. The women are cliqued up because there aren't enough alpha-males to go around. Society has produced these [pick a pill] dudes who are too lame to attract women. When family & community make it OK for a male to be weak on any level, he's being set up for failure. Confident men don't have any problems with attracting women. Feminism has been around since the 1960s. A minority of Black women will find it appealing. Yet, there's enough Black women that we can stand to lose a few. Just like the alphabet soup & [pick a pill] communities. ๐Ÿ˜Ž
  4. Today
  5. ProfD Those are the rules for certain types of broadcasts. I understand, but it's still control. It's not freedom. There's no reason for the evening news channel to show people cussin' & exposing themselves.๐Ÿคฃ Sure there is. It's called giving us the "facts". If a Senator or CEO said "fuck those niggers" then we need to HEAR the video or audio of them saying it. Not some censored bleeped out blurred out version that leads to confusion. If there is a mass shooting maybe showing the bodies and what REALLY happens to people when they get shot will DETER others from doing it or caution other to be more vigilant so they won't fall victim to them. Right now all they show is a bunch of police standing around with yellow tape everywhere. This desensitizes people to the violence. OTOH, cable channels have plenty content with cussin' & nudity & violence, etc. So in other words, they make you PAY for the truth...lol. And even on cable you have mostly censorship because CNN and Fox News doesn't show you nudity, graphic real violence from news events, or even cussing. Not sure of why PBS was showing nudity & graphic violence back in the day. They are super vanilla now. They were allowed to show it in the name of being "educational". We used to LOVE to look forward to certain shows on PBS because we knew we'd get the real. Atleast once a year they'd have a sex education program on where they showed the stages a woman's body when through during pregnancy and finally show her having the baby. Full nudity, pubic hair, and even the baby coming out. As a kid me and my family would sit in the living room and watch the real video footage of the riots that took place in the 60s and how the police would cuss at people and kill them and and you saw dead bodies and blood scattered on the streets. Things the regular corporate channels never show. This was back in the 70s and 80s. I don't know if they even show that anymore. It wasn't until I was a grown man that I realized that cussing and nudity was FREQUENTLY shown on regular broadcast channels in Europe! Canada too, to a lesser extent.
  6. Right. Same thing applies to Americans. Even those who are poor may be happy with their famiky, friends & the simple life they live. Where I grew up, nobody could convince Black people they were poor whether it was welfare or working low wage jobs. Black families & by extension the communities were filled with love. People looked out for each other. Childen ran around playing. Adults were drinking, smoking & partying. Folks cooked & ate well. Black communities had a good ole time by any means necessary even though we didn't have a lot. Many Black folks are not willing to work low wages jobs especially if they are over-qualified for them. Right. Cheap is relative. The fact that Wally World is filled with customers at any given day & time means people have money to spend. Right. The same thing happened when factory jobs left America. Instead of buying up &/or re-purposing the factories to make other things, many Black folks packed their sh8t up & went home & waited for white folks to provide the next job opportunity. Many Black folks have been in a cycle of dependence on white folks for a very long time. Changing it won't happen overnight or over many decades. Institutionalized like prisoners.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  7. ProfD They will use this rogue AI bot sh8t to force governments & companies to buy some type of AI security to prevent getting hacked in the future. Yep! I didn't even think about THAT part of it. Now the same people who are BEHIND the robots going "rogue" will be trying to sell you expensive software that they made specifically TO deal with them. And I'm sure this security software will have to be "updated" every year to keep up with whatever new threat they invented.
  8. ProfD I'm not surprised that female participation is low here. That goes for participation in general. Facts. There should be far more male and female participation. Well, the interesting things is that WHITE message boards and discussion forums are still poppin' I mentioned this before, I think one of the reasons why participation on discussion boards in the Black community has gotten so low is because of INTELLECTUAL DECLINE in general. When it comes to discussion forums, you have to actually formulate a sentence, type in paragraphs, often times do research and dig up articles to post to make your point, etc.....things that require a certain amount of intellect and social decorum so that people can communicate and get along with eachother. Too many young Black men today are used to "barking" at eachother and emotionally over reacting to eachother and it carries over into their social media habits. Emotionally reacting to eachother in short brief spurts of laughter, rage, insults, etc....in their posts. Few well thought out words. But lots of emojis and no rules for capitalization and punctuation. How many times have you seen people use the question mark "?" when they're NOT asking a question but simply to make an assertion as if it was an exclamation mark? Some of these bruthaz can't even spell basic words in 2026! The literacy rate has went BACKWARDS. You're seeing words like "feets" and "gooder" in these posts, and they aren't even joking! There were a few more regulars when I 1st showed up several years ago. Thought my posts ran them away.๐Ÿคฃ Troy has established so many different "rooms" on this site that if somebody doesn't like what you or I or anybody else is posting they can easily spend the rest of their time on this site participating in another forum and not have to read or even come across somebody else. I saw richardmurray's name in other forums for YEARS before interacting with him. There's still a few people who post in other forums on this site I have yet to interact with. The reality is there's no shortage of forums & social media outlets catering to a variety of interests. People have plenty choices in where they spend their online time. This is true, but some things are just social and biological nature. Men are attracted to women and women are attracted to men. That's the way we're wired. Anytime you have a half a dozen intelligent articulate Black men in a given space and it's NOT popular among the women...something is seriously wrong with that society. WHAT are they interested in? WHO are they interested in? The reason I think this is an issue is because like Phil said in that video and what I, Troy, and others have noticed is that when you go out to these clubs and restaurants you'll see whole groups and tables of Black women by themselves with no Black men around seemingly enjoying themselves. Who has conditioned them to literally "enjoy" having no Black men around? Like Neely Fuller Jr. used to say, society is being CONDITIONED or PROGRAMMED to where they want Black women to become lesbian and fall inlove with EACHOTHER and then be used as super soldiers on foreign soil.
  9. ProfD I'd imagine that is the case for those who choose to stay in those countries. Immigration would suggest a lot of people in 3rd world countries are they're looking for a better life elsewhere. Everybody is different. Even people from the same nation and ethnicity may value different things as life as individuals; so what one person may LOVE about their nation and culture their own brother or cousin may HATE and choose to pack up and leave it behind. Some people may like the slow and less hectic life of living in a third world country where there is less wealth and luxury but they may find life easier to get through. Meanwhile some people CAN'T WAIT to get to America so they can get 2 or 3 jobs AND go to school and get a degree and get rich. They may have plenty of energy and love working 60 or 80 hours a week and can't wait to get to a country that allows them to do this and even rewards them for it. Depends on how folks choose to spend their money. Some folk don't t have to pay rent or mortgage. That SUV & upkeep of it might be their only bill. This is true. There used to be a time when a GROWN MAN had to pay for his own place. Now you got grown men living with their parents until they're 60, living off their wives and girlfriends, and "crashing" on the couch from one friend's crib to the next.....with no shame in it. But another thing that's a problem is that as more and more immigrants come to America the more they disrupt OUR social fabric of adults living independently. Most of them believe in the extended family so you'll have several generations or 15 people living on one house and all of them are working low wage jobs but are chipping in so that they can stay in the house and have cars. That's hard for an individual person to compete with because they were raised to do everything on their own. As long as Wally World (Wal-Mart) keeps rolling back prices & selling cheap sh8t...folks can make it on a handful of dollars. It ain't THAT cheap anymore...lol. I went to Walmart a few weeks ago and ended up paying $400 for a basket full of shit that I didn't think would be over $200. I had to go over my receipt 2 or 3 times to make sure they weren't double charging me. Black folks had better start buying land & learning hown to grow food. Same goes for learning trades & starting businesses within their communities. It's gonna be ugly if white folks finally admit that they're tired of carrying Black folks when it comes employment. Lol....come on bro. How long have we been hearing THIS????? You might as well go outside and start preaching to the squirrels. "I know. Say man....... Winter is coming soon and it's going to get cold in a minute! Yall better get it together and learn to store some acorns! I can't keep giving you all this food! You gotta learn how to go to the store and buy your own nuts! Learn how to use cash or a debit card before it's too late!"
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  11. I'd imagine that is the case for those who choose to stay in those countries. Immigration would suggest a lot of people in 3rd world countries are looking for a better life elsewhere. Depends on how folks choose to spend their money. Some folk don't t have to pay rent or mortgage. That SUV & upkeep of it might be their only bill.๐Ÿ˜ The system gives them just enough to be satisfied. As long as Wally World (Wal-Mart) keeps rolling back prices & selling cheap sh8t...folks can make it on a handful of dollars. Black folks had better start buying land & learning hown to grow food. Same goes for learning trades & starting businesses within their communities. It's gonna be ugly if white folks finally admit that they're tired of carrying Black folks when it comes employment. ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜Ž
  12. Agreed. This is straight BS. No such thing as rogue AI bots. Someone is pushing the buttons & deploying those AI bots to hack different systems. Just like the military tests advanced aircraft but let folks believe it's a UAP/UFO. They will use this rogue AI bot sh8t to force governments & companies to buy some type of AI security to prevent getting hacked in the future. Straight BS & a money grab too.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  13. I'm not surprised that female participation is low here. That goes for participation in general. There were a few more regulars when I 1st showed up several years ago. Thought my posts ran them away.๐Ÿคฃ The reality is there's no shortage of forums & social media outlets catering to a variety of interests. People have plenty choices in where they spend their online time. Regardless of the participation or lack thereof, I enjoy chopping it here @ AALBC. I'm not on FB, X, IG, TT, etc.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  14. Those are the rules for certain types of broadcasts. There's no reason for the evening news channel to show people cussin' & exposing themselves.๐Ÿคฃ OTOH, cable channels have plenty content with cussin' & nudity & violence, etc. Not sure of why PBS was showing nudity & graphic violence back in the day. They are super vanilla now.๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜Ž
  15. Yesterday
  16. ProfD The FCC issues broadcast licenses. The media agrees to operate within the broadcastint rules. However, the FCC doesn't control or dictate content They don't??? When they tell you that you can't say certain words. When they tell you that you can't show certain body parts. When they tell you that you can't talk about certain topic. ......that's control. PBS & NPR are the closest thing America will get to it. Perhaps. I consider those stations truly neutral and what television SHOULD be like. I remember seeing nudity and graphic violence on Channel 56 (the PBS station in Detroit) and wondering why the other television stations weren't showing this. At my young age....I didn't realize that other stations CENSORED their programming.
  17. I truly believe that there is an attempt on the part of the Racists to subliminally brainwash or program women.....not just Black women but women of ALL races....against Black men in this society. I think it's being done in the media, in the movies, on television and in other forms. I'm not joking....I'm serious. Whether it's Troy, ProfD, frankster, richardmurray, (I'll leave my name out of it since Cynique would probably object.....lol) or the many other Black men who have come and gone -you have a site full of intelligent and I presume....for the most part....lol.....heterosexual Black men who post here on a routine basis and give wonderful insight and conversation about a VERY wide range of topics. Yet you have less than 3 women who post on this site at any given time and less than a handful who have posted here on a regular basis. Especially compared to the male posters. I would think under NORMAL circumstances that would be attractive to most heterosexual women and even if they weren't actually looking for a husband or boyfriend they'd hang around this site just for the positive masculine energy alone. But that doesn't seem to be the case. This is one of the reasons I believe....truly believe...that the women of this society are being subliminally programmed/brainwashed/conditioned or whatever you want to call it to NOT find Black men attractive and TO find White men attractive. I don't think many of THEM even know why they feel the way they do. It's subliminal....or subconscious. They just know they aren't "feeling" it. But they don't know why. Don't tell me they simply "aren't interested" in the discussions. Since when did intelligent Black men EVER "not interest" women whether it was the topic or just our masculine energy period? Those of you who remember the 70s, 80s, and 90s where you could barely keep sistaz out of the barbershops because they LOVED to hang around the bruthaz and listen in to what we were talking about. They AUTOMATICALLY found whatever we were talking about interesting. Those of you Black men who are over 40.....and I presume that's most of you....KNOW what I'm talking about. The energy is different. Some of you may laugh at the thought of this...because you don't know how wicked but sophisticated some of these racists are. Women are biologically programmed to seek the attention, presence, and comfort of men. When that DOESN'T occur, we should be alarmed as to why.
  18. ProfD The poorest American is more well off than someone in [pick a 3rd world country]. It depends on what you're calling "well off". A lot of people in third world countries may be poor and don't have the TANGIBLE luxuries we have in the United States but most of them have benefits that can't be bought with money -Strong family connections. You almost never hear them complaining about being lonely or unwanted. -Better natural health without a bunch of pills and medications -Simpler societies that are easier to navigate through -Less likely to be incarcerated -Less likely to be shot or robbed Working poor just means one will never have a new car or take vacations but their basic needs will be met. Look no further than gas stations. Price going up like a thermometer. People still at the pump buying it. Makes me wonder how...lol. I put enough gas in my tank to get to work and back; yet I'm seeing hundreds of people riding around in gas guzzling SUVs all day and night smoking weed and bumping their sounds and I'm wondering how they're able to afford it. American poor is built different The poor in America today are certainly more COMPLACENT than they were in other periods in our history. There used to be a time in America where the men would be in the streets shouting and yelling and demanding more jobs with higher pay and better benefits. The question becomes where does that leave AfroAmericans in the mix ....behind.
  19. Rogue AI bots have hacked into governments and public bodies around the world: tech giant OpenAI Tech giant OpenAI has admitted rogue AI bots have โ€˜accessed dozens of organisations around the world including governments, universities, public agencies, and other institutions improperlyโ€™ and โ€˜meddledโ€™ with them. The US company behind ChatGPT said it had now alerted those affected including the financial regulator US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Census Bureau and the US Department of Education. As fears over the dangers of AI grow, with Pope Leo yesterday warning that we โ€˜must not lose humanity to machinesโ€™, alarm bells have rung over OpenAIโ€™s admission that some of the bots used โ€˜extreme methodsโ€™ to bypass security measures on websites. Autonomous AI agents are said to have found and accessed tools reserved for software developers to get census data from the Census Bureau, the company said. OpenAI also admitted its AI agents had used โ€˜misalignmentโ€™ in attempts to get at information from websites, effectively meaning they acted autonomously and did something they were not trained or intended to do. Rogue AI bots have hacked into governments and public bodies around the world: tech giant OpenAI If any of yall believe this.....I have some ocean front property in Michigan I'm selling for the price of a wing ding dinner, lol.
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  21. The poorest American is more well off than someone in [pick a 3rd world country]. Working poor just means one will never have a new car or take vacations but their basic needs will be met. Look no further than gas stations. Price going up like a thermometer. People still at the pump buying it. American poor is built different.๐Ÿคฃ The question becomes where does that leave AfroAmericans in the mix.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  22. The FCC issues broadcast licenses. The media agrees to operate within the broadcast rules. However, the FCC doesn't control or dictate content. PBS & NPR are the closest thing America will get to it. Instead of being run by government, America chose its form of Democracy & the system of capitalism. The system has worked out to make the USA the most powerful nation on the planet.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  23. It will not get to a point where the number of feminists & [pick a pill] dudes is significant enough to affect population growth. No different than the alphabet soup community. There's more people in that community now but it still takes heterosexual folks to create them. Right. If Black folks followed the code, there would be no one-night stands or children born out of wedlock.๐Ÿคฃ Back in the early 1980s, HIV/AIDS had everybody shook for a minute. The needle stopped on the record. People stopped dancing & stood still like mannequins. No f8cking. As soon as HIV/AIDS was labelled as a disease among gay dudes & needle-sharing drug users, the record resumed playing & Black folks went back to unprotected f8cking like rabbits.๐Ÿคฃ That's why there's 50+ million Black folks running around today.๐Ÿ˜ My point is there has been & will always be a minority of people who don't get down in the traditional ssnse of relationships &/or procreation. Feminists & [pick a pill] dudes are the modern representation of that minority.๐Ÿ˜Ž
  24. ProfD Employed Americans have just enough money to pay high azz healthcare costs. The government subsidizes it for poor people. Many employed Americans ARE poor. Many are making too much money to qualify for Medicaid but aren't making enough to cover their medical costs and other expenses. Massive unemployment will create a completely different situation affecting white folks. It will lead to UBI & a form of Universal Healthcare (UHC). Non-whites will benefit by default. I don't think they plan on masses unemployment for White folks. I think they're trying to flood America with as many yellow and brown and even African Black (not our Black...lol) folks as they can to make THEM the new working underclass so that THEY will take the brunt of any mass poverty and mass employment this nations slips into from time to time while the Whites sit on top. That's their PLAN. Not sure how well it will be implemented.
  25. First of all, most of the media is controlled by the government anyway through the FCC so in a sense it IS state controlled. But personally, I think America SHOULD have a state-run television channel like some of these other countries so that it operates independently of the financial or profit factor. I don't think governments should be beholden to private corporate interests but should always have the upper hand.
  26. BINGO I think you're giving Cynique too much credit.....lol. YOUR quote of being civilized means giving up freedom in exchange for liberties is an EXCELLENT one and hits the nail directly on the head and sums up the difference.
  27. ProfD Right. I do not believe the number of feminists & [pick a pill] dudes among Black people has reached critical mass or a level to be considered a pathology. We don't want to wait until it GETS do that point, do we? NF Jr. also didn't think Black people should procreate until they were well established & at least 30 years old. Dr. Frances Cress-Welsing had a similar belief. You're right in that I remember Dr. Welsing expressing such beliefs but I don't recall Mr. Fuller expressing them. I remember him advocating a LOOOOOONG LIST of questions people should ask eachother before having sex...LOL. He said they were supposed to look at eachother naked and examine eachother and ask questions like "have you ALWAYS been a woman"....LOL Depends on where you live. Go to predominantly Black cities across America & you'll see a whole lot of pure AfroAmerican children. That's true. Every time I go back to Detroit it's like going back to the Motherland, lol. Sometimes I take fellow African co-workers back to Detroit with me and they say like looks like a major African city. They are really amazed at seeing Black police officers....especially female.
  28. Gotcha. Being civilized means giving up total freedom in exchange for liberties. I still like the water & ice analogy because of the latitude between freedom & liberty within civilization. Otherwise, a human can live away from civilization & be totally free to do whatever they desire.๐Ÿ˜Ž

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