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701  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Chinese Uighurs - concentration camps, slave labor on: July 23, 2020, 08:27:11 AM
Modern day slavery seems to be as rife as it ever was, and it makes one wonder why all the dick heads that are pulling down historic monuments and statues are doing it. It almost appears that they want to conceal the concept for the benefit of the modern day slavers. Of course they are funded by the Anglophile Empire, so they don't want to do anything that decreases their profits.
BLM wants to spread communism to the US. Their founders are Marxist’s.

How should the world respond to the above reports? Should Western companies pull out of Chinese markets (production and selling their services/merchandise)?
If the reports are true, then that's slavery and the world powers need to step in, but afaik, China will definitely deny all this claims as they are also keeping quite a lot of secrets from the world of late that are still yet to be fully unravelled.

As for pulling out of the Chinese market, I'm in support of that, India already pulled out, and the US making things difficult for them, i believe a time will soon come when major world powers will have to unite to weaken the Chinese, and their desire to be the number one country to be reckoned with at any cost.
I think a lot of companies will pull out of China, however this is not something that can be done overnight. For example, China supplies the world’s antibiotics and alternative factories need to be built before China is cutoff, otherwise many will die from minor ailments. China is also a major producer of natural earth minerals that are used for computer chips and weapons systems, the US needs to build and ramp up these factories at home before China can be cutoff.

No one is going to pull out of China because of this. No company (or country, politician, etc) really even cares that its happening. They only pretend to care when the news shines a light on it and people start sharing these horrible videos, which is why politicians know that they have to make a statement about how they're sanctioning some random Chinese officials.

The horrible thing is that nothing will get done over in China because politicians and regular people are too fixated on short term profits, to care at all about any ideals that they may have. Hopefully at some point that changes, and people notice that we have to make decisions for the long term.

Not too good of a precedent to set ya know - genocides are pretty fucking horrible. You'd think that we would've learned from the Holocaust, but I guess otherwise.
702  Other / Politics & Society / Re: [BET] Trump or not Trump 2020, eddie13 vs suchmoon on: July 23, 2020, 12:32:07 AM


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Still not sure what exactly you're trying to prove here. If we're doing searches on Google we're going to go back to at least March/April when COVID tests just started to now. You're working with like -- 4 months of data from all 50 cities and states to find stuff.

Lets make a very conservative guess and say 20,000 cities that average 3 media outlets that reported covid stats daily since March 1. That's 60,000 daily reports for 143 days.  

So 8.58 million news reports.

There are 999 three digit combos. (i'm including the 99 that start with a zero.

For every unique 3 digit number there would be over 8,500 unique news reports.

Eddie, does it make sense how retarded this whole thing is yet?




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I don't think he's grasped the part about the statistical likelihood of what he's talking about here. Like -- there's so many cities in the US and at first (March/April) places were reporting large records of numbers so it makes sense that something like this would happen.

Like lord I'm not sure if this is the hill that Eddie wants die on here. Not really sure what is trying to be proved here as this is just statistically a chance of all of this happening.

Like yeah not every town in America is going to have 250 cases day right now. But at some point they were able to hit within the 999 number range that was set.
703  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Connection between blood type and coronavirus mortality has been confirmed on: July 22, 2020, 09:47:28 PM
Not saying that your news site is wrong or anything like that. Site just looks pretty weird and suspicious is all. Usually best to try to link to some sort of reputable news sites

(WSJ, Ny Times, Reuters, BBC, CNN, Fox, etc - Some may argue on the legitimacy of these, but ya know)

Seems like this isn't true though, though your source may be going off of old research or something like that. Here's a source straight from Harvard Medical that says there is no difference in severity of COVID depending on blood type - https://hms.harvard.edu/news/covid-19-blood-type

Ever-changing research though.
704  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Another stimulus package is coming, where should congress be spending this money on: July 22, 2020, 09:38:38 PM
All these stimulus packages will cause more inflation in the end and fiat will lose value but who cares in the end it will be good for crypto right.

...Eh, I don't think this is going to cause inflation that is outside of the normal inflation for the US. We typically see 2-3% inflation every year. During this year we obviously saw a lot less consumption which causes less inflation. But because of all of the stimulus packages and Federal Reserve pumping money into the economy, we've now seen the same amount of 'consumption' as before.

So inflation may be a bit higher then usual, but nothing outside of the norm for a typical year. We may lean a bit closer to 3% though. That's why your money should always be working for you, every $ in cash that you have that isn't working for you is losing 2-3% per year.

But none of that fits the simple crypto narrative of - THIS IS GOOD FOR BITCOIN BECAUSE ALL FIAT IS GOING TO DIE TOMORROW.
705  Other / Politics & Society / Re: [BET] Trump or not Trump 2020, eddie13 vs suchmoon on: July 22, 2020, 08:39:11 PM


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Still not sure what exactly you're trying to prove here. If we're doing searches on Google we're going to go back to at least March/April when COVID tests just started to now. You're working with like -- 4 months of data from all 50 cities and states to find stuff.

[...]

Obviously Bill Gates personally fixed this issue using his 5G mind control device after nutildah pointed it out.

Well yes 5G obviously causes Coronavirus but it can ALSO cure Coronavirus.

BIG BRAIN TIME
706  Other / Politics & Society / Re: [BET] Trump or not Trump 2020, eddie13 vs suchmoon on: July 22, 2020, 06:28:39 AM
Explain this masklovers..

50 states could cover 1000 numbers in 20 days. May need more than 20 days due to not-entirely random nature of the numbers or less than 20 days because you got some partial numbers, other countries, totals/daily/cases/deaths and other types of numbers, and even phone numbers in your search results. We've had this pandemic going on for 100+ days so yeah, there is going to be many 3-and-probably-4-digit numbers associated with those search results.

Not entirely sure what you're trying to show here.

Not even just 50 states, you've got news reports from tons of municipalities that could also be hitting those numbers by themselves.

Ex: New York City, New York, Los Angeles, and so on and so forth.

You're most likely looking at hundreds of cities and states all across America that are easily going to hit this. Especially when given 20 days to do so. I'll have to agree with SuchMoon here, not sure what exactly you're trying to do here.

If you're trying to say that all of this is madeup or that corona isn't real or whatever --> It is real and it does kill people. It's fake until it hits a vulnerable (or non vulnerable) family members
707  Other / Politics & Society / Re: E-mail spam from the Trumpsteins on: July 22, 2020, 06:23:43 AM
Just an additional note. I've gotten a good amount of these spam emails recentley, unsure on why - Never have donated, bought merch, given my email, or anything along those lines to a political campaign.

My spam continues to come only from the Trump clan or whoever they may contract their spam-house operations to.  It is also the case that no other entity has spend spam to the trump-only e-mail so they didn't sell my addy.  Yet.

So, in spite of the attempts by the appologists to deflect, justify, blame the victim, etc in service to the Trump tribe, the obvious fact remains that these maggots are spamming people who they suspect of being brainwashed cattle with the most base and obvious material.  It really speaks to who these people are.

I've tried to unsubscribe, and I'm pretty sure they just don't care and they're going to continue sending out emails to me. So that's pretty nice, going to have to just pray that hitting spam on all of them forces Googles spam filter to notice that I don't want to see it.

Saw the same thing - regarding the ignoring of unsubscribing - on another family members email. Not surprised to see Google putting all of these in spam though.

You are gaining wisdom to the ways of e-mail and spammers, Grasshopper.

Here's my most recent haul for the last few days.  I would expect a few more today:

Code:
Eric Trump		Are you up for it? - The Left will never catch us.		11:26 AM
Meet President Trump We¿ll see you in Florida - Win the trip of a lifetime. 9:36 AM
DonaldJTrump.com The Fake News media will fail - 8:30 AM
Donald J. Trump Let¿s keep our lead - I can't do it without you. 6:46 AM
Donald J. Trump This is ONLY for my TOP supporters - Do NOT share this with an 4:46 AM
Lara Trump Are you ready for Texas?  - You don't want to miss this. 4:41 AM
Donald J. Trump Tonight.  - I want to set a NEW record. 3:06 AM
DonaldJTrump.com Defend America - It's time. 2:31 AM
Donald J. Trump Which picture should I use?  - VOTE NOW. 12:47 AM
Trump Platinum Card It looks good - 12:01 AM
Bill Stepien, Trump. We need to pick it up - Are you ready? Jul 21
Trump Flash Sale This one-time offer - Your order will ship soon. Jul 21
Lara Trump Become an advisor to the President - Jul 21
DonaldJTrump.com No more police - This is what it would look like. Jul 21
Donald J. Trump Will you come with me?  - This trip will be unforgettable Jul 21
DonaldJTrump.com We trust you already know - You must. Jul 21
Bill Stepien, Trump. We need to stay ahead - The President said I could count on yo Jul 21
DonaldJTrump.com Did you see our new ad?  - We're exposing the TRUTH. Jul 21
DonaldJTrump.com Help expose the LIES of the Mainstream media - Take the survey Jul 21
DonaldJTrump.com Help expose the LIES of the Mainstream media - Take the survey Jul 21




LOL, grasshopper.

I don't know to me it just feels so weird to think that the worst offenders of spamming emails, are the very people that we elect to fix problems. The crazy thing is is that this strategy must actually work as they Trumps (and the rest of the political machine) continues to use this strategy. So people may actually fall for it on one of these emails.

Really want to know who they're outsourcing to handle this. I'm expecting that it's the same person for both parties (or same way of trying to get around spam filters while obviously spamming)

At least they haven't sold your burner, yet. lol.
708  Other / Politics & Society / Re: POLL: November 2020 Trump or Biden? on: July 21, 2020, 10:00:36 PM
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/508088-report-john-kasich-to-speak-at-dnc-on-behalf-of-biden

This seems so odd. A former candidate in the 2016 republican primaries is speaking on behalf of Joe Biden at the DNC convention?

This certainly does nothing to dispel the notion that Joe Biden is too old to be President when he isn't speaking at Democratic convention.

Kasich always was sort of a strange dude.

Kasich is a VERY strange person. Can't beleive that some people think that he was a viable option for the Republican nomination in 2016 -- guy is pretty much a RINO. All this shows is that he is a uniparty puppet who just wants to have power and money. Curious on how much was offered in both sides (money, job in the administration, etc)

Not sure on his approval ratings now that he's been out of the governorship of Ohio for awhile. But Biden and the Dems are hoping that he can convince some moderates to join his side.

Doubt Biden will pick him for anything, but I assume that he's going to get some sort of private sector job b/c of this.

RINO.
709  Other / Politics & Society / Re: E-mail spam from the Trumpsteins on: July 21, 2020, 09:53:57 PM
Just an additional note. I've gotten a good amount of these spam emails recentley, unsure on why - Never have donated, bought merch, given my email, or anything along those lines to a political campaign.

I've tried to unsubscribe, and I'm pretty sure they just don't care and they're going to continue sending out emails to me. So that's pretty nice, going to have to just pray that hitting spam on all of them forces Googles spam filter to notice that I don't want to see it.

Saw the same thing - regarding the ignoring of unsubscribing - on another family members email. Not surprised to see Google putting all of these in spam though.
710  Other / Politics & Society / Re: [BET] Trump or not Trump 2020, eddie13 vs suchmoon on: July 21, 2020, 09:28:50 PM
How can you be so sure he will not win?

Trump will certainly not win in 2020

We're over a 100 days out so obviously things can change but the polling numbers are absolutely brutal: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_biden-6247.html

Trump's not going to win the popular vote so national polling isn't all too accurate of the electoral college which is all that matters, but the swing state polls look pretty ugly too.

Lots of public health experts have went on the record saying this Fall and Winter are going to be brutal from the perspective of public health and safety. Coronavirus is not going to go away by November and the CBO predicts a 10 percent unemployment rate by the end of the year. Can't campaign on eliminating coronavirus, and can't campaign on the economy.

Yup. No shot that Trump wins the popular vote at this rate.

I GUESS the swing states are still within reach, but it's going to take a lot of good news in the following months -- PLUS the 'silent majority' that Trump keeps talking about has to come out and vote. They may, and they may truly be a force, but they didn't come out in 2018 when Republicans lost the house.

We'll see if they come out this time around.
711  Other / Politics & Society / Re: [BET] Trump or not Trump 2020, eddie13 vs suchmoon on: July 20, 2020, 06:09:05 PM

I've said this time and time again. No one will punish you for being too cautious, but not being cautious enough is going to land you with no job come re-election.

That is nonsense. Being too cautious will put your entire population out of work. In April and May, there were protests against the lockdowns, even under the threat of arrest.

It is not possible to remove all risk from everything. I would note that in most of the country, the risk of death from the coronavirus is roughly in line with driving to work everyday.

Being too cautious does not mean keeping everything closed. It means making rational decisions based on science when it is shown that the Coronavirus isn't spreading like a wildfire in your state.

If you follow science and public health officials, you'll be able to see when it makes sense to go through a phased plan of reeopening. While we all want everything to go back to normal, that's just not possible right now in a large portion of the US.

And here's the death rates for Corona - https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51674743

For older people (the at risk portion of the population that we're trying to save here) the risk ranges from 3-10% chance of death based on age and underlying conditions (heart issue, breathing issues, diabetes, etc)
712  Other / Politics & Society / Re: [BET] Trump or not Trump 2020, eddie13 vs suchmoon on: July 20, 2020, 05:49:59 PM
That interview was TRULY very horrible. Doesn't really make voters happy when there's a global pandemic and you turn to the reporter and say that you'll be right at somepoint.

I think he genuinely doesn't give a shit about the pandemic. At one point he was complaining how unfair it is that he's "not allowed" to have rallies in Michigan etc.

I don't even understand the rational behind ignoring the pandemic by the way. The pandemic is still ravaging onwards in the southern states, and even if it all just went poof 130k Americans still did just die in a few months because of this. It probably isn't the best idea to continue to talk about this like it isn't a major issue right now.

Republicans are beginning to break ranks with Trump, as they think that the pandemic isn't just going to magically go poof anytime soon.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/19/us/politics/republicans-contradict-trump-coronavirus.html

Republicans governors are going to be breaking ranks in the next few week (Gov of Texas already has, and Gov of Florida, DeSantis, probably will soon) Because they know that this is a losing issue.

I've said this time and time again. No one will punish you for being too cautious, but not being cautious enough is going to land you with no job come re-election.

713  Other / Politics & Society / Re: [BET] Trump or not Trump 2020, eddie13 vs suchmoon on: July 20, 2020, 04:46:08 PM
Still not getting my hopes up.

Maybe this will help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6XdpDOH1JA

Trump doing his best Michael Scott impersonation yet.
Just watched that.  Wonder how hard Trumps staff begged him not to do that interview.  Jeez.

Still, there's nothing he can say that is too stupid because look at fill in the blank.

That interview was TRULY very horrible. Doesn't really make voters happy when there's a global pandemic and you turn to the reporter and say that you'll be right at somepoint.

People don't want this to be a dick measuring contest about who is right and who is wrong. People want solutions to a problem and they want leadership which will make sure that they're safe. People want the economy to recover just like Trump does, but rushing it does nothing more then make this a bigger problem then it is right now. That's the issue that we've seen in Florida and a large amount of the south, where they didn't heed the warnings of other states that were hit harder initially - Washington, New York, etc -- and just reopened without science backing it up.
714  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The US Army Criminal Investigation Unit Is Looking For A Web Application. on: July 20, 2020, 04:42:05 PM
An application which will track the illicit crypto transactions. This will be a great development. Because Crypto currencies are the big source for illegal works. Not postulating just read in an article.

Source: https://cryptodaily.co.uk/2020/07/us-web-app-crypto-transaction

Lol. Not sure that's a good thing when a large amount of people using Bitcoin think that is anonymous when it really isn't. The only reason this can be said to be a good thing is because we can now teach people about privacy coins such as ZCash and Monero and how they can benefit you.

Also a time where people can be taught the importance of mixing their coins through mixers such as ChipMixer, Samourai, Wasabi, etc.

715  Other / Politics & Society / Re: President Trump wears a mask for the first time yesterday! on: July 19, 2020, 10:47:28 PM
Not complete protection, but it does HELP to LIMIT the amount of particles that you're spewing in the air. So that does something in helping the curve come down.
Size of corona virus still less than the pores of masks we are using so definitely it is going to do more hamr than good because wearing mask increases the chance of virus to live in the mask itself so later it will get into any of the holes we have in our body and people keep using the same mask all the time which is definitely lead us to be infected.
Well, if that's the case (using the same mask repeatedly), then there's really a chance that they'll get the virus.

Here in our country, we're told to wear mask every time that we're going out of our home. But upon returning, it is necessary to dispose the mask immediately (if it's a disposable one) and if it's washable, then separate it from other things and wash it as soon as possible.
When people don't even have money to feed themselves how can we expect them to wear the N 95 mask every time and ask them to dispose every 2 or 3 hour usage. Roll Eyes

That's the issue of government and not handing out masks though. I'm assuming that MANY local governments have mask and food drives. I'd assume if you called up your country / town / state government and said that you were having issues getting a mask, someone would have it dropped off for you.

Plus the extension of unemployment benefits, food stamps, and so on and so forth will help you get your hands on these sorts of products. The crazy crazy prices were present in the beginning, but now buying masks really isn't that expensive.
716  Other / Politics & Society / Re: [BET] Trump or not Trump 2020, eddie13 vs suchmoon on: July 19, 2020, 09:54:57 PM
His party is complicit in this approach, as we saw with the impeachment acquittal. How far will they be willing to go? What if states where Republicans control the legislature are ordered to refuse to accept Democratic victory?

I think the party supports him only because he controls the base, i.e. any Republican candidate turning against Trump is almost guaranteed to lose in primaries to a trumpist. And they know he'll appoint the "correct" judges etc. But as long as he's no longer useful he'll be discarded. I doubt there would be any significant support for a coup attempt if Trump loses. There might be some desperate legal maneuvers if the result is close but that's about it. Trump has also pissed the military off so I don't think he can count on support there. If he wants to hole up in the White House he probably could but that wouldn't stop the actual transfer of power.

There is even talk from the Republican establishment that Trump should be discarded before the election because he's clearly not interested in fixing his campaign. I doubt that'll happen though. I hope that doesn't happen, I want a win, not a draw LOL.

100% Trump commands the Republican base and everyone in the GOP knows this. If Trump loses this power, the GOP incumbents will turn against him like they'll do with anyone else.

Think about it in terms of this - Bush had sway over the party while he was the President, as did every Republican and Democrat before him for his respective party. Whenever Bush comes out and talks bad about Trump, no one cares and the senators / reps for the Republicans don't do anything because they know they'll lose their primary if Trump goes against them.

For god sake look at Jeff Sessions - guy was one of Trumps first supporters and now he just lost a primary (by a LONG SHOT) to someone who has never worked in politics before.

717  Other / Politics & Society / Re: POLL: November 2020 Trump or Biden? on: July 19, 2020, 09:45:16 PM
Honestly in recent days / week or so I've been learning towards thinking that Biden is going to win both the popular vote and the electoral college. I really don't see how swing voters are going to agree with Trump and his rhetoric, and people are going to be voting in droves against him.

Coronavirus and the economy taking a massive hit has really horribly hurt Trump, and Trump isn't able to admit that some of this can be said to be his fault due to him not being quick enough with his response and taking leadership.

I said before he'd be able to get out of this if he showed that he was doing all that he could. But I really don't see Trump being able to get out of this one as nicely as he gets out of everything else.
718  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Natural corona virus immunity sky rockets. on: July 19, 2020, 09:29:59 PM
Pretty sure herd immunity requires around 80% of the population to actually have gotten it. The state in the US that had the most amount of people get it was NY, and even the state of NY only has 20% of the population get it. This is while 26k (or more now) residents of NY died b/c of Corona.

While yes, we'll get closer and closer to herd immunity as things go on. We're going to have a lot of people dead if we continue to go on the path of herd immunity. The best case is a vaccine soon, but that's also pretty far out at this point.

Rolling lockdowns and social distancing while we wait for a vaccine is really all we can do. Honestly.
719  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 2020 Democrats on: July 16, 2020, 11:43:13 PM
SNIP

No, the tweet cannot be attributed to Biden, however the retric of "vote for me and I will give you 'free' stuff" can be. This has been a consistent message on the part of Democrats for decades. This is how Obama was elected twice, and will likely play a large role in Biden's messaging.

To my knowledge, no elected/public offical's account was affected. According to Twitter, several employees were the subject of successful social engineering attacks and the attacker was able to use these employees' system access to gain control of certain users' accounts. My guess is that elected/public officials have additional/seperate security that other accounts do not have. Overall, this is very embarrassing for Twitter.
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Heh, got it. Just wanted to make sure that we weren't going to attack Biden for something that totally is out of his hands and is totally not his fault.

Totally looks really bad on Twitter though. I'm assuming there was some sort of bribe or just con job on the twitter employees (as ya know, you cant always trust Twitters statement that they're putting out directly)

But yes, this shows that public officials and those with larger followings need more protections on their account, and employees of the platform need less control of posting on these peoples accounts and such. Hopefully changes will be in the works.
720  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Should the US Bail out Minneapolis's Riot Damage on: July 16, 2020, 11:27:40 PM
Saw this as well.

Totally not. The local police departments should stop this from happening by the means that are necessary -- if they need to get out the firetrucks and start hosing people down who are destroying things then that's what has to be done. There shouldn't be images of the police standing by while people are robbing the local Macy's or that people are burning down stores.

So no. Protect your city OR call the Fed government for help when things are burning to stop the rioting.
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