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'Mostly peaceful protests'

Posted by fustakrakich on Thursday August 27 2020, @09:21PM (#5974)
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are like the 'moderate rebels' in Syria - propaganda constructs that do not exist in the real world...

The point is that it is only helping the president's reelection campaign. The democrat lead is not sustainable. They have no affirmative motivation, and the 'Not Trump' factor withers when facing his followers.

"Shoot me, nigga!!"

Posted by Runaway1956 on Wednesday August 26 2020, @10:20PM (#5961)
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Trump "inaccuracies" about COVID-19

Posted by DannyB on Wednesday August 26 2020, @05:09PM (#5960)
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Answers

I started a collection back on 3/23 of this year. I am only posting/pestering this now because an AC asked me "what could Trump have done and when?".

"For educational purposes, what about a running thread with daily updates of Trump's ongoing and continuing dangerous lies that are going to cost lives?"

Will some people ever be persuaded by the torrential flood of lies and disinformation directly from the horse's jackass's mouth?

The best ones, I think, that show the change over time, and that what Trump was doing was not working are:

This is perhaps the very best link of the bunch:
From ‘It’s going to disappear’ to ‘WE WILL WIN THIS WAR’

An ad so good, Trump is trying to get it taken down:
Exponential Threat
Exponential Threat

In May I stopped collecting these because the torrential flood of lies was just too great. I surrender!

Edit: below are in reverse chronological order (newest to oldest).

‘How Can I Be Sick?’ Woman Who Took Hydroxychloroquine For 19 Years To Treat Lupus Still Got COVID-19

‘This will kill you’: Fox’s Neil Cavuto at center of Trump’s hydroxychloroquine madness

Medical journal says Trump is 'factually incorrect' about when it first published coronavirus reports

Sorry, Mr. President, America’s testing capacity isn’t “unrivaled”

Scientists’ world of truth and knowledge couldn’t be further from Trump’s

'Delusional,' 'absolutely false': Governors cry foul on Trump testing claims

The 52 most off-the-wall lines from Donald Trump's Sunday night coronavirus briefing

Trump's self-interest is at odds with safe coronavirus policy

No evidence of rapid antiviral clearance or clinical benefit with the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin in patients with severe COVID-19 infection

The Article:
Exclusive: The Military Knew Years Ago That a Coronavirus Was Coming
The Video:
Trump OUTED By Leaked 2017 Pandemic Documents

No proof drug touted by Trump is effective against coronavirus: EU

Over 120,000 Sign Petition Calling for End to Live Coverage of Trump's Coronavirus Briefings

'That's just not true.' GOP Gov. Hogan contradicts Trump claim that testing problems are fixed

Trump Suggests Lack of Testing Is No Longer a Problem. Governors Disagree.

The 37 most mind-boggling lines from Donald Trump's Sunday coronavirus briefing

Trump itching to scale back social distancing after 15 day-period, aides say

Trump Says Coronavirus Cure Cannot ‘Be Worse Than the Problem Itself’

Trump signals change in coronavirus strategy that could clash with health experts

Trump, in his own words, from his own lips, on camera, in front of the country and the world

A man immune to information

the sequel, Pandumbic 2

Physician on Trump's request: It's really impossible

'I can't jump in front of the microphone and push him down': Fauci addresses Trump coronavirus claims

Please chime in to explain how this is all fake news. And how I'm a horrible disloyal person for posting something that could embarrass the president (if that is even possible).

I started a joke...

Posted by fustakrakich on Wednesday August 26 2020, @04:02PM (#5959)
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Which started the whole world fighting...

UPDATE:

For those poor souls who still don't get it, This is not about the "joke". It is the trail of tears of insanity that followed that I found so fascinating. That, and the funny comments here which illustrate the exact same thing, clarify once again how easy it is for Trump to win and keep on winning.

Antifa Is Mostly Made Up Of Privileged White Dudes

Posted by Runaway1956 on Tuesday August 25 2020, @07:57PM (#5956)
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News

https://spectator.us/antifa-white-privilege-race-minneapolis/

Antifa’s white privilege
Even in a riot, the races aren’t equal

There is no right to burn down your neighborhood, but it’s always an option. Freedom means choice, and real freedom must include the choice of self-destruction — but not destroying someone else’s neighborhood. Especially not when the neighborhood is mostly black and poor. That is what the privileged whites of antifa are doing by instigating disorder and destruction in Minneapolis’s 3rd precinct and elsewhere. Cost-free kicks at black people’s expense: the height of white privilege.

Race is the American sickness, and though everyone is sick of it, no one has the cure. The murder of George Floyd and the fact that it took riots before his killer was charged, confirms, should anyone still need confirmation, that Americans are still not equal before the law. Don military fatigues and storm the Michigan statehouse, and the police will recognize you as a fellow patriot. Pass a counterfeit bill while black, however, and no law can protect you from the law.

The laws that antifa learn to despise in their four-year colleges guarantee their racial privilege. If you’re black and angry enough to burn down banks and stores in your black neighborhood, tomorrow you’ll have to live in the ruins. If you’re white and you burn down banks and stores in someone else’s neighborhood, tomorrow you’ll be back in white world: fixing bikes or brewing espresso, waiting for The Man to cancel your student loans, living in a historic urban neighborhood whose historic black population you and your white friends have gentrified out of sight.

This isn’t the first time masked gangs of property-holding whites have stormed into black neighborhoods and smashed the place up to show they are above the law. They used to do it to preserve their racial privilege, to exclude blacks from exercising their rights of participation. Now they do it in the name of the racially underprivileged. Either way, they never asked for an invitation. They don’t have to, do they? They’re white and they know their rights.

https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/01/antifa-is-mostly-privileged-white-dudes/

Antifa Is Mostly Made Up Of Privileged White Dudes
Many in the media treat Antifa as a diverse group of warriors against fascism and racism. This is an absolute fabrication.
JULY 1, 2019 By David Marcus
At Occupy Wall Street, there were two very distinct groups. On one side of the park were the peaceful intellectuals. They ran the library and the general assembly, and organized services in the park. On the other side was the black bloc, a collection of black-clad punks, often with bandanas ready to serve as masks, who mostly engaged in drug use and drum circles. The latter group is directly related to the movement we now know as Antifa.

One thing that both of these groups had—and continue to have—in common is that they are mostly young white people. This is not surprising; poll after poll shows us that the vast majority of far-left progressives are white. The intellectuals at Occupy understood and tried to address this, giving special treatment to the speech and ideas of their small cadre of non-white participants. The Black Bloc and Antifa take a different approach; they just cover their faces.

But when members of Antifa are arrested, the masks come off. And, as recent mugshots of Portland Antifa members show, these people are about as diverse as the Washington Generals.

At a time when many on the left are rightfully concerned about far-right white violence, why do so many seemed so nonplussed by far-left white violence, in most cases even refusing to acknowledge that that’s exactly what Antifa is?

One sociologist writing in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz attempts to prove fanciful claims that Antifa is a rainbow coalition of the oppressed desperately fighting in their own immediate self defense. Stanislav Vustotsky writes:

“Many militant anti-fascists become involved in this form of activism because aspects of their identity are directly targeted by fascist violence; they are queer, transgender, gender non-conforming, people of color, Jews, Muslims, Sikhs, and certainly identified in ways that intersected across these categories.

For them, anti-fascism was a means of ensuring their safety from a movement that threatens their very existence and venerates violence as the highest form of action. Even the Antifa activists who identify as cis heterosexual white males are the targets of fascist violence as ‘race’ and ‘gender’ traitors.”

Vusotsky claims to have formally studied Antifa—interviewing them, attending meetings, and “engaging in the culture of anti fascism.” Needless to say he doesn’t exactly come off as a neutral party to all this. But what is stunning is what is not in his piece. He claims to have conducted “ethnographic research,” on the group. If so, where are the numbers that back up his assertion that Antifa is wildly diverse?

Anyone with even a passing knowledge of Antifa has seen videos of their violent antics and can see for himself or herself that almost all of them are white dudes. Anyone who has ever been in their presence knows this too. I would be very interested to see this ethnographic research, and I am curious if Haaretz looked at it before publishing the author’s bizarre claim. It strains credulity to believe that if Vusotsky had hard numbers to back up his assertion he would have simply left them out of his article.

The reason this point is so important is that it betrays a double standard that many in our media use regarding violent white activists. On the right, their whiteness is front and center; part of the toxic brew that stews their hate. But this is equally true of Antifa, which has its roots in the far left of the English punk scene in the 1980s.

Antifa’s goals are not those of most non-white Americans. Most non-white Americans don’t want to destroy the systems of government, abolish the police, end capitalism, or cripple corporations. The group is absolutely trying to impose a style of anarchy that is steeped in (and almost unique to) whiteness.

When cowards wear masks to engage in violence, we must remove the masks to see who we are actually dealing with—not the fairy tale of diversity version. When Andy Ngo, a minority gay man, is mercilessly beaten up by white activists, the fact that the activists are white is a big part of the story in today’s landscape. Don’t believe the progressive narrative: Antifa is mostly a bunch of privileged white dudes.

XuanTie 910 / Alibaba XT910 RISC-V Core

Posted by takyon on Tuesday August 25 2020, @06:29PM (#5955)
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Remember the Trump tax thing? Well, forget it!

Posted by fustakrakich on Tuesday August 25 2020, @06:46AM (#5949)
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Just another nothing-burger. Vance won't pursue... again showing democrats are full of it, they work for Trump too...

UPDATE:

And to all the people that come here to complain:

Trump v. Biden!

So, don't look at me

What will Trump do in 2nd term?

Posted by DannyB on Monday August 24 2020, @06:22PM (#5946)
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/dev/random

I've been wondering. What will Trump do in his 2nd term?

Ideas? Please share.

Ordinarily presidents have a plan for WHY they should be re-elected. And I mean something more than "we've done a tremendous job. Just tremendous!". But Trump is anything but ordinary. How about an agenda for his second term? What does he plan to accomplish?

* protect us from Hillary!
* protect us from Biden.
* protect us from Pence.
* Trump will tweet his plans for his 2nd term as soon as he receives them from Vladimir.

As the wall begins to deteriorate and fail due to faulty construction from poorly chosen contractors; donate the wall to Canada. Shipping charges due upon delivery. The US can't be alone in needing to protect its southern border from criminals and rapists.

Reform the voting system. Make it simple. You simply vote whether you are Loyal or Disloyal. To prevent disagreements in places of voting, the Loyal and Disloyal will vote on different days.

There must be many other important things that must be addressed during Trump's 2nd term. What are they?

AMD 2021-2022 Roadmap: Zen 3 Refresh on AM5?

Posted by takyon on Monday August 24 2020, @02:46PM (#5945)
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Hardware

AMD Ryzen 2021-2022 roadmap partially leaks

AMD’s Leaked Ryzen CPU & APU Roadmap Shows Vermeer’s Successors Warhol ‘Zen 3’ in 2021 & Raphael ‘Zen 4’ in 2022

The big takeaways seem to be:

Warhol: A 2021 Zen 3 refresh desktop CPU (after this year's Zen 3 Vermeer), except that it may be on the new AM5 socket with DDR5 memory, so it would break compatibility with current motherboards. It could have some "Zen 3+" IPC enhancements, reminiscent of the slight gains of "Zen+". Still uses PCIe 4.0.

Raphael: 2022 Zen 4 desktop CPU. It could have an entry-level amount of integrated graphics on a chiplet. Most of Intel's desktop CPUs have integrated graphics, while AMD has forgone it. But there is probably plenty of room for the I/O die, 2-3x 8-core CPU chiplets, and a tiny GPU chiplet, especially given that it will be on TSMC's dense "5nm" node. This is the one I'm hoping will have gigabytes of L4 cache stacked on the I/O die.

Dragon Crest: Early 2022 successor to the low power Van Gogh APU, featuring Zen 3 cores and enhanced RDNA2. If the target is really early 2022, then AMD is being very aggressive about introducing new products at a fast pace.

Covid Deaths Approval Rating

Posted by fustakrakich on Monday August 24 2020, @04:03AM (#5939)
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Republicans: 57% approve. Expected higher from them...
Independents: 33% approve. Dumbasses...
Democrats: 10% approve! WTF!

Funny how the article presents it:

On republicans,

Over half -- 57% -- say that the number of U.S. deaths from the pandemic, which now number over 175,000, has been "acceptable."...

However,

Nine in 10 Democrats say the level of coronavirus deaths has been unacceptable.

Sounds much better than saying 10% are cool with it, doesn't it?

UPDATE:

FDA won't let you have cannabis, but you can get Plasma