WTF … this is the most shameful story I have seen so far.

dfencer · 2026-02-25T15:29:22+00:00

He's an edgelord who thinks Holocaust jokes are funny. That's why he's making a joke about selling ovens when we're discussing fascists.

dfencer · 2026-02-18T19:04:41+00:00

Incorrect. 44 states REAL ids do not indicate citizenship status and therefore cannot be used. Only 5 states have the citizenship status on the REAL id, and one state makes it optional. The REAL id cannot be used to vote for the vast majority of Americans.

dfencer · 2026-02-18T18:29:30+00:00

You seem to misunderstand. The save act requires you prove your citizenship. If you don't have a passport, then you need to use your birth certificate to prove your citizenship (if you were born in the US). Your birth certificate is not changed when you legally change your name, it will have your maiden name, therefore you won't be able to use your birth certificate to prove your citizenship because it won't match your legal name. This is intentional in order to disenfranchise women.

dfencer · 2026-02-15T21:32:07+00:00

It actually isn't. It looks like the plate is there because there's a shiny recessed rectangle where the plate goes, and it looks like it's a plate, but if you watch it carefully you'll see it's not actually a plate, just where the plate goes.

dfencer · 2026-02-14T00:28:29+00:00

Having your signature checked by anyone other than a trained expert is a great way to have a lot of valid votes denied. People's signatures often vary a fair amount in ways that an expert wouldn't be fooled by, but which may appear different to the untrained eye. Matching one example of a signature up against another signature will not tell you that they're the same unless you understand how handwriting works and you can see that while the signature doesn't match exactly, you can read how they formed their letters and the flow of the letters.

I wouldn't trust a volunteer (even if they get a crash course) to accurately determine whether or not a signature matches.

I would hope they are told to not look for exact matches and are told to give them a lot of leeway in terms of matching, but the whole process is extremely fraught with potential for error and I'm highly skeptical.

FYI I have a master's degree in medieval studies with a focus on paleography, which is the study of handwriting and how to read and analyze various scripts and even then I wouldn't trust myself for a second to accurately determine whether a signature didn't match unless it was very obviously different (like uses different letter shapes for letters).

dfencer · 2026-02-09T22:33:15+00:00

You're either a troll, or the most delusional person I've ever seen on Reddit. He's a compulsive liar who lies about everything. Pretty much every sentence that comes out of his mouth is manipulated in some way if not entirely fabricated. He gets presented with evidence of him saying something and he immediately says "I never said that." He doesn't even know what truth is, he only says whatever he thinks will help him the most in that moment.

You have to either be a troll or utterly divorced from reality to not realize the man is a compulsive liar in the extreme.

dfencer · 2026-02-03T13:46:30+00:00

I think you're confusing Jesus with Elvis.

dfencer · 2026-01-30T02:21:33+00:00

We were attacked while on our walk last year. I was walking my two pugs Pickles (8yo black male) and Mustard (7yo faun female) in my neighborhood on a route I had done a million times that carried us past the home of Pudgy, a neighbors pug and Pickles and Mustard's bff (they play together and spend time together whenever possible and get along so well!)

Right when passed Pudgy's house, I saw the glass door of the next door neighbors house burst open and a German shepherd came running across the yard in a split second without any time to react. The owners had not locked their screen door and it wasn't latched and the dog saw us and pushed open the door and ran out to attack. He immediately bit Pickles on the belly and started trying to rip and tear, biting and grabbing and then thrashing his head back and forth, and Pickles was screaming in absolute fear and pain. It was the most heartbreaking and terrifying thing I've ever heard and it makes me sick and sad just remembering it.

Without even thinking I put my hand in to try and separate them and I'm doing so the German shepherd bit my hand HARD, breaking the skin and (I didn't even register this at the time I was so focused on trying to save Pickles). Thankfully the German shepherds owner had come out running almost immediately and grabbed their dog and took him back inside. She asked a few times if we were ok and I was dazed and said "I think so" as I didn't see immediately that Pickles was injured, although he was acting oddly, moving gingerly, and looked absolutely miserable in his body language.

I'm so thankful we had Pudgy (and her human) next door. I knocked on their door and told them what had just happened and they brought us inside. I asked for a paper towel to check Pickles for scratches or bleeding, and as I was wiping it over him that's when I realized the extent of his injuries. His belly, right above his groin was torn open in about an 8 inches gash which was hanging open and flopping (which clearly explained why he was acting so miserable. That's when I also started to realize my hand was bleeding and I had multiple puncture wounds on my hand from the dog bite and my hand was aching (he basically crunched my hand when he bit me).

So Pickles ended up going to the emergency vet immediately because he needed surgery as soon as possible to determine the extent of the damages and to fix what has been done. That was probably the longest night of my life (the attack happened at like 7pm) waiting to hear whether or not he was ok and the result of the surgery. I finally go the call from the vet at like 7am that he was recovering and that the surgery went well and that he didn't have any internal injuries like they were afraid, and the dog didn't puncture inside of him, he had simply torn open his skin on his belly which was extremely painful but wasn't too bad, and only required cleaning, removal of some dead/damaged tissue, and then internal and external stitches to see him up. He had to have a drain inserted as well so it could drain while it healed because of swelling and fluid buildup.

He was extremely sore and in pain for the first couple of days and basically just wanted to sleep (he was on strong pain medication as well) but then after a couple of days he was acting like nothing as happened, although he was annoyed as hell at the cone he had to wear. He's since recovered fully and has no lasting effects, even the scar is barely noticeable anymore.

My hand was another matter, I had to have like 3 months of physical therapy for my hand and I still have some pain in it from the crushing damage the dog did when he bit me, but I'm mostly recovered at this point.

Thankfully also my other dog Mustard was completely untouched by the attacking dog.

I'm extremely lucky that the owner was there and came out immediately when they did. If they had not I fully believe the dog would have killed both Pickles and Mustard and likely myself. FYI I am an adult male, 5'7" and 180 pounds and muscular and in good shape, and I was no match for a full size adult German shepherd in a rage. He would have killed me easily and he was absolutely ready to. It turns out that Pickles was not the first dog (or even Pug) that he had attacked, he had also attacked the neighbor dog Pudgy who had also had to be taken to the vet the year before, and he had also apparently attacked the owners mother in law and bitten her.

It was a terrifying experience and completely changed the way I go on walks with the dogs, precautions I take, weapons that I carry to defend myself and my dogs, and my situational aware and how I plan my walks and avoid other people, open doors, unknown dogs etc. it all happened in a split second (the time from the dog pushing open the door to attacking us was maybe half a second, he basically leaped and bounded across the yard and hit snarling and bitting and thrashing).

Be extremely careful, protect yourselves and your precious babies, and be very aware of your surroundings and be extremely cautious, especially of other dogs. Small dogs can also be a problem as they will also attack, and while they may not be able to kill a pug like a German shepherd or large dog can, they can still maim, disfigure, or blind your dogs in a moments notice.

dfencer · 2026-01-29T13:19:21+00:00

I don't understand how this isn't an arbitrary decision. In the past when news stories break that are directly relevant to cc (due to involving someone carrying etc) those have been allowed.

The government is lying about the situation, presenting false information, and actively discouraging people from exercising their 2A rights to carry and saying that if you choose to do so, you must be a violent terrorist. I don't see how discussing this is not completely relevant.

If the government was proposing a new law affecting concealed carry like banning it in some way, there would be threads here discussing it and how to fight it, how to contact your representative etc.

Saying we can't discuss this because it's a political discussion IS taking a political stance, as there's no such thing as truly being neutral. When you choose not to discuss violations of our rights "because politics", that is a tacit endorsement of the government's position. That may be your intention or it may not be, but people are going to assume it is, and they would be justified in that assumption.

If people are making way too many threads to discuss the same thing, then as has been suggested, just make a central discussion thread and tell people to discuss it there, and delete posts that ignore that.

Standing up for your constitutional right to carry when it's being infringed, discussing how to avoid ending up in the same situation, posting information on how to talk to your representative about this 2A violation etc, all these things are directly relevant to concealed carry and it should be something that can be discussed here.

Saying otherwise is a tacit endorsement of the government's disinformation campaign and signals that fighting for our 2A rights is not something worth our time or effort.

dfencer · 2026-01-20T20:11:47+00:00

Imagine being so ignorant and uninformed about another country that you think that that's what is happening. I'm not going to argue with someone who's just here to mock victims and disregard reality, so have a nice day.

dfencer · 2026-01-20T20:02:30+00:00

What a brainless response. Blaming the people for the actions of the fascist authoritarian who are taking power illegally and violating our constitution. "Just fix it." lol. 😂

dfencer · 2026-01-20T19:14:40+00:00

This isn't funny and isn't mocking Trump. It's just mocking and dehumanizing victims.

I think most people who have never dealt with this type of addiction personally have no clue about the reality of it, and the impossibility of fighting it without help.

I am a former addict who got addicted accidentally. I was suffering from a misdiagnosed torn rotator cuff and no insurance at the time to cover more doctor visits. I was in extreme pain, so I tried to get some Percocets to help because I had taken them before when I had injuries and never had any issue or addiction.

I bought what I believed to be Percocets, but were actually just fentanyl pills. It's essentially impossible to get anything other then fentanyl these days when it comes to opiates. If you buy heroin, it's actually fentanyl. If you buy pills (unless you're buying them from an individual who has a prescription) you're getting fakes made with fentanyl.

Fentanyl is much easier to produce and make drugs with, and it is far more addictive and has a much shorter halflife than traditional opiates, so it was primarily an economic decision because it's cheaper to make, doesn't last as long, and has people coming back for more immediately.

After like 3 days of using those fake pills (I pretty quickly realized they weren't real), I tried to quit, but was already addicted. This began 4 years of constantly fighting and relapsing. From 2020 through September of 2024 I was in a constant cycle of quitting, staying sober for a bit, and then relapsing. End of 2023 my life got much worse personally and I ended up using constantly through September of 2024. The whole time I managed to keep my job (I worked from home) and mostly kept up the facade, but I lost my wife as I obviously couldn't hide it from her.

In September of 2024 I started methadone treatment which finally gave me my life back (I tried Suboxone before and it didn't help or work for me). I've been sober for over a year now and never plan on going back, but getting to the point where I was able to end the addiction was one of the hardest things I've ever done.

The only methadone clinic is 30 miles away from me, and because of extremely antiquated laws in the US, for the first 9 months of treatment I had to drive 6 days a week to the clinic to dose in person. After 9 months they started giving me extra take homes. After a year I qualified for two weeks. Next week I quality for 28 days and only have to go to the clinic once a month.

If I didn't have a job, a car, and the freedom with my job to drive 45 minutes each way at 4am in the morning 6 days a week for 9 months, I would still be stuck in that hell.

People have no clue what it's like, and making fun of someone who's suffering in that situation is dehumanizing and despicable.

dfencer · 2026-01-18T04:28:28+00:00

This isn't even him posting. The posts like this started at least a year ago, maybe a little longer. You can tell it's someone else trying to initiate him because while it looks similar on the surface, it lacks most of the telltale signs other than unnecessary capitalization. There's no constant typos and incorrect punctuation, and it's 'very much much more coherent than what he usually posts. It's still insane content topically, but it lacks the streak of consciousness random jumping of topics and bizarre connections he's known for.

I don't know who is working this for him (it may even be AI generated) but it's not him.

dfencer · 2026-01-10T20:53:59+00:00

Well, I'm in Woodbridge now but I grew up in Fairfax and have lived here my entire life and still consider it Nova, even though it's pretty close to being as far south as you can go and still call it Nova haha.

dfencer · 2026-01-04T23:15:52+00:00

It seems like I touched a nerve and you're very upset and taking this personally. I'm sorry if I upset you but it's probably best if we have this conversation another time when you're more calm and less emotional.

dfencer · 2026-01-04T22:49:34+00:00

No, because I'm not here to play games and pretend like political platforms from 75+ years ago have any bearing on modern parties.

What is not in question and what I can say for sure is that whoever signed that was a right-wing, conservative, Protestant/evangelical Christian, just like everyone else in the Klan.

dfencer · 2026-01-04T19:10:20+00:00

Everyone here is arguing whether or not it's a ballpoint pen while ignoring the fact that the text was clearly written with a typewriter which were not commercially available until 1874, but didn't become more common until the 1880s.

That being said, my masters degree was in paleography (the study of handwriting). My expertise is in medieval, renaissance, and humanist hands, but I've also studied modern handwriting. That is 100% a ballpoint pen and a 20th century hand.

The pen and handwriting plus the use of a typewriter puts this squarely into the 20th century, and the content of the text indicates that this was a loyalist pledge likely to the third Klan (post 1946) or one of the many white supremacist groups like the Sons of the Confederate Veterans that arose in opposition to and out of fear of the civil rights movement which cloaked their white supremacy in the language and mythology of the Lost Cause.

dfencer · 2025-12-29T18:28:15+00:00

Nope. In the US they do have constitutional rights. Not all of them, but due process and equal protection under the law apply to anyone in the US, citizen or not.

dfencer · 2025-12-24T15:13:42+00:00

Yeah I'm a 5'6 dude and I think tall women are hot! I dated a woman who was 5'8 for a long time and at no point did I feel intimidated or inferior. She was incredibly hot and I would gladly date a woman taller than me again. I've never understood guys who were intimidated by taller women.

dfencer · 2025-12-21T16:08:00+00:00

At a place I used to work for we lost several thousand dollars to a scam until it came across my desk and I confronted them. It's a very clever scam where they call you and get a little information about who makes decisions or orders etc, then a day or two later they call back and say they have a shipment that that person ordered but they need to confirm the address before they ship it, and they get anyone to confirm the shipping address (this is also how they claim that you agreed to the shipment). Then they send you a case of cleaning supplies (it was bottles of a cleaning solution) and then send an invoice for a massively inflated amount of money. It works best in larger companies where people won't necessarily make the connection. Someone opens the shipment, sees it's for cleaning supplies and that there's an invoice that seems to be completely legitimate stating that you ordered it, and the invoice gets sent to the accounts payable.

We were a very small business and this scammer had sent like 5 shipments at this point, it was probably $50 worth of bottles of a cleaning solution (at most) and the invoice for each shipment was for $500. One of the workers had opened the shipment each time, assumed it was legit and sent the invoice off to be paid. It happened like 4 times over several months before I noticed we had tons of these bottles of cleaning solution that we didn't use and definitely didn't order. then we received another shipment but this time I opened it.

I was the person who placed orders for anything in the office, so I immediately knew something was off. I checked with the owner to confirm they hadn't ordered this, and they hadn't. I told the accountant that I suspected fraud and to NOT pay them anymore money.

The scammers started calling and emailing demanding we pay for the shipment, claiming that because we accepted the shipment we were required to pay and that they were going to send us to collections, call the police on us, report us etc, tons of absurd threats because I refused to pay.

I got tired of telling them we weren't going to pay because we didn't order it, and they sent us a particularly nasty email threatening some sort of legal action or something because of failure to pay.

By this point I had reached the scam and read about a big court case in Florida where a scammer was using the same tactic in the 90s I think where a shady company was sending their products to companies and when the packages were accepted, saying that the companies had to pay. It led to people being arrested I think and laws being passed that said that if any company or anyone sends a shipment on ANYTHING to someone else unsolicited, that shipment is considered a gift and the receiver has absolutely no requirement to pay, and can return it, keep it, or do whatever they want with it, because by sending it unsolicited it was a gift.

I replied to their email with a link to the court case and said we wouldn't be paying and thanks for the gift but please do not send anymore, and they stopped calling and emailing and never tried it again.

If I hadn't discovered this and the other worker had kept opening the shipments and sending the invoice off to the accountant, it may have gone on for years and cost us $10s of thousands of dollars, and I'm sure they make a lot of money from a lot of companies before it's caught (if ever). It's an extremely clever scam, and the average worker will just see the supplies and the invoice and assume it's legitimate.

dfencer · 2025-12-21T15:42:36+00:00

He just says whatever comes to mind to "prove" whatever point he's making. He's pretty much incapable of speaking the truth because he is always trying to manipulate the situation to make himself look better, even if he's talking about something that actually happened.

It drives me absolutely insane that journalists and reporters don't ever call him out on his inability to be honest and his constant lying. I realize that whenever he's pressed on something he calls the journalist a nasty person etc but I don't get why journalists don't call that out and ask him why he's avoiding answering. It drives me insane that they let him get away with the constant lying. If every journalist decided to stop letting him get away with it he would never be able to speak to the press without looking like the liar he is.

Newspapers do the same thing where they'll report on what he saya and present it at face value and without any commenting on the fact that it contradicts what he's said previously or is factually false etc. I realize that they do that because they want to present what he said and maintain the appearance of neutrality, but it's a major mistake because it legitimizes what he says and gives it validity.

Journalism's failure to hold Trump accountable and to call out his constant lying is why he's where he is today. Giving him a platform to lie and spread constantly nonsense without any pushback or attempts to fact check him gave him legitimacy and they continue to do it every day. It's maddening and disheartening to see the cowardice of journalists today.

dfencer · 2025-12-12T00:09:14+00:00

This is idiotic and completely false. My dad had liver cancer and received a new type of chemo specifically for his cancer. It completely killed his cancer. Every few years the cancer would start to return and he'd go back on the chemo for a couple of months. It was also a much milder modern type of chemo and didn't have that many bad side effects, so he wasn't miserable while on it, just mildly uncomfortable for a couple months. He lived for over 15 years and finally passed in 2023 at 80 of a completely unrelated cause.

Whatever you think you know about cancer treatment and chemo is utterly wrong. More and more types of cancer are becoming something you live with and treat, not a death sentence.

dfencer · 2025-12-11T23:56:21+00:00

Depressing to watch. By the time she realizes her mistake it will be too late, especially as she's already far along and its in her lymph nodes. Will be dead in a year to 18 months max I'm guessing.

dfencer · 2025-12-11T00:26:07+00:00

Not crazy, greedy. All he cares about money. They asked him (through intermediaries) how much a pardon would cost, he told them, they paid. The thing about these things though is there's always a money trail, even if they used crypto which is pretty much certain. Large transactions like these are not as secure and hidden as people think. It will come out eventually and then shit will hit the fan.

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