>>603901
>fanfic
You say that every time a whistleblower reveals the truth. No one buys it anymore.

>>606952
>fanfic
>not the '6 million people are gonna die unless we completely quarantine everyone arbitrarily because reasoninos'
>not the 'its all drumpf's fault' even though the virus originated in china and the chinese withholding critical information caused everyone to respond underwhelmingly'
>not the change from flattening the curve to 'completely stopping the virus', the latter of which has no actual timetable because stopping a virus from diffusing through the population is impossible
>not the retards that came up with the pandemic death numbers and advice on the response believed that wearing masks would completely immunize a person from getting infected
>not the news that a large chunk of deaths are coming from old people homes and long term care facilities, where many of these people have pre-existing conditions
>and definitely not the constant doomsayers ignoring the findings that go against the mainstream narrative and screeching every five seconds that 'its going to get so much worse if you do the things we told you not to do' like their heads would explode if they didn't keep shilling this narrative

>>603086
Omgawd were all doomed! I predicted this!

I'm now a whistleblower and expert because some of you agree with that sentence and I'm a phony and a fraud because some of you don't. The truth being I just made that up.

>>607022
It is Trump's fault given he refuses to do anything major and still is doing nothing while trying to see a threat to the entire country doesn't require a federal response.

>>608055
You are so tiresome.

Obvious follow up. What was the fatality rate BEFORE the virus.?

>>607446
Aren't the Russians always super proud to be the greatest sufferers in the world?

There's also the risk of falling out of the third storey window too, seems a lot higher in Russia than the rest of the west.

>>607553
have you seen what russian kids do for fun?

>>607553
>>608091
Russia does have some of the highest rates of suicide and abortion in the world. People don't want to go on living there or bring a new life into the world there.

>>608304
I'll see your "muh niggers" and raise you an antivaxxer and a flat-Earther. Hell. let's throw in a birther too.

This is "whataboutism". Sure, sure, YOU started with a deep-seated hatred of people with darker skin then you, then created an assessment (cart before the horse style) to serve your prejudices based on cherrypicking, "no true scottsman" and other fallacies, but that doesn't make _my_ assessment an opinion or invalid.
Try addressing my point on its own.
It's not "just my opinion" that he violates the emoluments clause on a daily basis.
It's not "just my opinion" that he obstructed justice in relation to not just the Muller probe, but also the impeachment hearings.
It's not "just my opinion" that he routinely fires inspector generals to avoid having them turn over stones he doesn't want disturbed.
It's not "just my opinion" that he's threatening blue states for promoting mail in voting, but not red states who do the same.
It's not "just my opinion" that he instructed Michael Cohento pay off Stormy Daniels in violation of campaign finance laws.

>>608360
>Try addressing my point on its own.
Okay.
>"just my opinion"
It is your opinion.
>"just my opinion"
It is your opinion.
>"just my opinion"
It is your opinion.
>"just my opinion"
It is your opinion.

>>608378
None of those are opinions.
Still no seeing you address any actual points I've made.
If this is how your brain really works, it's little surprise you're a Trump supporter.
The facts don't matter to him either.

>>608385
>None of those are opinions.
All of those are your opinions. You are in no place to offer anything besides your opinion.

>>599106
Does it ever get boring towing the party line?

>>607743
>are unlawful orders
[citation needed]

>>607757
>Voter fraud happens all over the world, why would you think America is any different?
Because nobody's ever produced any evidence of widespread voter fraud in modern American history.
Hitchen's Razor, Russell's Teapot

>>607854
>>607641

>>607855
OK, to be fair you've got an example.
But it _did_ just come out this week, as did this one >>598593 so I'm just a little behind.

Now I'm gonna get a little nit-picky, but both of these are primaries, and don't carry the same penalties as fudging an actual general election.

>>607111
This.

Fuck corporations

>>607854
>>are unlawful orders
>[citation needed]
Constitution of Michigan of 1850, Article IV, Section 1.

>>607241
I say keep the beach open and just let natural selection do its thing

>>607267
> (Sure is a very "communist" state with all those uberwealthy private property owners overreaching!)

Speaking of McCarthyism. I know someone from the former Czechoslovakia, and she really does hate it when people call California “commiefornia” or accuse Obama of being a communist. Oh, and she supports people like Bernie.

>>607267
>>608074
Forgot to add that this just shows how bad boomer propaganda is in America, where everything to the left of Reagan is considering full-blown communism. Heading from people like her really puts things into perspective when it comes to what’s actually tyrannical communism vs made-up American propaganda

>>608093
*Hearing

Not heading. Fuck.

>>608093
Czechoslovakia was socialist, not communist. Stupid brainwashed American. There hasn't been a single communist country in the history of mankind. Just a few small communes that didn't make it very far because people got sick of each other's shit quickly.

>>604161
nobody cares if people were being handcuffed too roughly or whatever pansy shit Hong Kong is crying about when people are being shot to death in the US every week.

>>604171
By this logic we should all stop discussing everything except the biggest problem in the world, you brick.

>>603433

HK police literally did everything right.. in USA the Nationa Guard would wash the blood trough that mafia infested shithole and pretend it was heroic act.

>>604161
Something to keep in mind.

One of the 50 Cent tactics is to bring up Trump as 'whataboutism' to derail threads and discussion.

>>604161
I wonder if it's one chinkposter who sets it up and then lets idiots bite, or if its a series of chinkposters staging an argument to obfuscate the discussion.

>>606724
Would you discuss news with a bunch of /news/ trannies? The answer is no, you sling mud at them, they sling mud back and then you become bored and visit /asp/ because at least the drama is interesting

>>606724
THE BROTHERS WHO MADE THE MATRIX ARE NOW LADIES!
THEY'RE LADIES!

>>607166
Big Jim is on fire yet again.

>>606724
damn. whur jennifer at wit tis here.

>>607670
Jennifer Lawrence? She's in Hollywood...duh.

Wall Street Journal publisher News Corp is a longtime Google critic and is among a group of the publishers that have been contacted by antitrust investigators.

The lawsuits—if they are filed—could pose a direct threat to Google’s businesses and rank among the most significant antitrust cases in U.S. history, alongside the government’s antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. in the late 1990s. The search giant’s critics have called for a range of sanctions against Google, from changes to its business practices to a breakup of the company.

As Google has grown into a powerful tech giant, it has long been on the federal government’s radar, though it has largely avoided enforcement actions. The Federal Trade Commission, which shares antitrust authority with the Justice Department, previously conducted a broad investigation of Google but closed it in 2013, announcing that the evidence, on balance, didn’t warrant it. The company made some voluntary changes to certain business practices.

The FTC’s then-chairman, Jon Leibowitz, said that while some evidence suggested Google was unfairly biasing its search results to harm competition, the company’s primary motivations were to highlight its products and improve the online experience for users.

The Wall Street Journal first reported last June that the Justice Department was launching a broad antitrust investigation of Google.

Nearly two months later, the department announced expanded investigative plans, with a focus on several leading tech giants. Both the DOJ and the FTC have been examining competition concerns related to companies including Facebook Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc. as well as Google.

The states announced their probe on the steps of the Supreme Court last September, on the same day they sent Google a civil subpoena seeking details about its online ad practices.

Wonder if they hit the publisher vs platform topic.
>Google’s search function
I hope that's a start

But I thought all corporations were benevolent dictators doing what's best for us? Did the Republicans lie to me?

>>604048
The people who taught you history lied to you. The most recent large antitrust lawsuit which broke up a significant monopoly was the breakup of AT&T, which was started off by William Saxbe and concluded by Ed Meese, both Republicans. The antitrust laws were created by Republicans to begin with, The Sherman Act under which AT&T was sued and with which Google is being threatened is named after a Republican and it was signed into law by a Republican president.

>>604048
>>604072
Too bad the GOP is selective and gives out favors with their antitrust laws.

(By the way, it was left-wing Republicans 100 years ago who came up with those laws. Be honest here.)

>>607788
The younger the better the organs are fresher and less diseased that way.

that little nigger was probably sold to the US and has most likely been eaten by Hillary.

>>607788
you're going to be very surprised when you look up statistics on murders of children under the age of 10

>>607788
The president ordered you to attack China, anon. What is wrong with you? Do you have a death wish? Wanna see your family die in a failed drug raid? This is not the time to be brave.

>>607657
>even though many Tibetans do not recognise him
Most Tibetans are atheist and don't give a shit about the asinine drivel of the ultra-religious far right.

>>607911
Ever heard him talk on socioeconomics? Musk never grew out of his Ayn Rand chuuni phase. Pure cringe.

>>607941
Nope. Just our rights and guns.
Remember that.

>>607910
Great! Now tell me where in California a place exists with good infrastructure.

>>607948
He can get away with that shit in Murica, but Germany is going to turn him into the joke of the decade. His anti-government, anti-worker, anti-union ideology may convince a few backbenchers in the freak party AfD to accept his bribes, but that's about it. They're not going to improve his position a iota. Only make him more of an outcast than he's already is. Less than five years before he gives up and runs back to Papa Donald crying.

>>603582
>Calif. business exodus may shift into high gear because of this
Nonsense. The last time automobile manufacturing oligarchs had any say in the state was decades ago. California belongs to oligarchs from IT, media and agriculture. All three sectors can do without smokestack industries and half-automatic assembly line workers.

>>606089
Yeah, not sure why people think comparing two fucked countries that did stupid shit, the USA and Sweden, makes any sense.
Compare them with Say Germany or South Korea that didn’t do stupid shit and in fact did smart shit.
Let’s look at two countries who had the first confirmed case on the exact same day:
The USA closed flights to one country (apparently confused about how international travel works) and did nothing else for six weeks until counties and states closed themselves after individuals decided to stay the fuck at home.
South Korea implemented airport traveler controls, immediately stood up a national robust testing regime, and got tracing right. Never even had to shut down.
Sweden isn’t the model to look to.

>>606049
>Yes, let's compare a sparsely populated scandinavian country with a state that has the most densely populated city in the western hemisphere

The northern 2/3rds of Sweden is a virtually uninhabited wilderness, most of the people live in the south part and most Swedes are urbanized.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Norden_pop_density.gif

>>606048
So only 6th worse out of like 155?

>>606408
Compared to the population density of NYC, it's pretty much Siberia (not to diss Sweden, almost every place is). Same in terms of the number of travelers passing through its airports, of which NYC has the highest traffic on Earth.

Meanwhile, you have Sweden's neighbors, Finland and Norway, practical clones in almost every respect (economy, social services, medical establishment, government, climate, and density), right next door to compare, each with less than 1/10th of the deaths and the same economic impact or better, both already reopening, while Sweden is considering at a belated, and thus prolonged, lockdown.

>>605037
Obama recognised the seriousness of Ebola and built treatment centres, mass graves, and distributed PPE at the source in West Africa. flights into the US from high risk areas underwent scrupulous contact tracing, it worked, only 2 ppl in the US died from Ebola compared to thousands in Africa. These countries where he set up the infrastructure are now better prepared to fight corona

Some congressional committees were later briefed on the State Department’s internal deliberations at the time, according to aides, who said it was decided among the group that an emergency declaration was the easiest way to avoid a congressional vote. But through the official channels, lawmakers were in the dark about how exactly the Trump administration came to its decision to invoke emergency powers, including whether a legal analysis had been completed, the aides added.

That led a group of senators to introduce 22 joint resolutions last June to overturn the emergency authorities, led by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.). The cohort included Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a Trump ally who has soured on the Saudis in recent years. At the time, the senators argued that the administration was deliberately ignoring longstanding precedents on consulting with Congress. All 22 measures ultimately passed both the House and Senate, but Trump vetoed them.

“Now is not the time to do business as usual with Saudi Arabia,” Graham said last year. “I am also very concerned about the precedent these arms sales would set by having the administration go around legitimate concerns of the Congress.”

One former administration official said the decision to declare an emergency in order to sell weapons to the three Middle Eastern states was made at the most senior levels of the administration. And by the time some relevant officials were read in, it was a foregone conclusion.

...

Rather than hold multiple meetings at the State Department with numerous officials — as is more typical of the process to greenlight arms sales — Pompeo would summon individual subject-matter experts up to his office on the seventh floor for small conversations, per the official. And for months after making the declaration, he received detailed weekly briefings on the status of the weapons systems and the timeline for their delivery.

Trump and Pompeo have maintained their support for Saudi Arabia despite these events. Trump’s first overseas trip as president was to Riyadh, where he met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, with whom he has cultivated a close relationship.

Trump stood by his Saudi counterpart and resisted congressional efforts to impose human-rights sanctions even after U.S. intelligence officials briefed lawmakers on their conclusion that the crown prince directed the murder of Khashoggi.

State Department officials were recently briefed about Linick’s conclusions in the probe. Pompeo refused to sit for an in-person interview with the inspector general’s office, POLITICO first reported, though he did submit written answers.

Huh, I guess the wheels put in motion to keep escalating with Iran never really stopped then.

>>607754
Now that Netanyahu is back in power in Israel and the virus is dying down I bet we will see some saber rattling soon to get back on track toward the planned war.

>>607754
Trump wants a war and he's a puppet of Netanyahu. Of course he's going to start one with Iran.

>>605321
its much much easier to prove that a) it was a child in the video and b) that the person watching knew it was a child in the video. with things like rape, a competent defense attorney just has to argue that the defendant didn't know it was rape. whereas if its a child, everyone knows what a child looks like and knows you shouldn't be fucking kids. even with murder, one could argue it was staged. but there's no defense for child porn. even if you say "well if its fake its not illegal" its still going to disgust any jury.

plus, its for extra protection for minors via supply and demand. by making child porn illegal, it hopefully creates less demand and therefore fewer children will be exploited.

>>605475
He probably started naming names of the people producing the CP, the Rurouni Kenshin author got busted for the same thing and got off with a 10 thousand dollar fine because he told authorities who made all his shit

>>605321
>then why aren't pictures of murdered people, or rape videos?
They are if you produce and publish them. Distributing them, on the other hand, is when you get into grey areas.

>>605486
Hopefully not. Giving the Mormons a chance to finally build Deseret and worship their dear leader Brigham Young will spell doom for neighboring states. HOWEVER, hopefully they'll own the libs out of the west.

>>604547
But I read on 4chan that Salt Lake City and Utah were based and non-degenerate white volkisch paradises

U.S. makers of semiconductors worry that the rules will slash their sales not only to Huawei but other Chinese companies, which might worry that the Commerce Department will next target them. Those firms may now look for non-American suppliers of technology, U.S. companies fear.

Still, the Semiconductor Industry Association, a body that represents chip-makers, suggested the rule may not have as devastating an impact as initially feared.

“We are concerned this rule may create uncertainty and disruption for the global semiconductor supply chain, but it seems to be less damaging to the U.S. semiconductor industry than the very broad approaches previously considered,” said John Neuffer, the group’s president and CEO.

Laurie Kelly, a spokeswoman for GlobalFoundries, a major U.S.-based chip-maker, said the Commerce move and TSMC’s plans to build a plant in the U.S. raised serious questions for the industry, and that her company was fully behind the goal of U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing.

“The U.S. government can best achieve that with smart regulation and the right level of incentives, especially for companies like GlobalFoundries,” she said, citing its $13 billion of investment in the past 10 years and more than 7,000 employees.

The new regulation is considered an “interim final rule”—bureaucratic lingo for a rule that goes into effect without needing public comment. But industry will have some time to lobby. The Commerce Department said that products on which work had begun already wouldn’t need a license if they were shipped to Huawei within 120 days.

Congress also could weigh in. On May 6, six senators wrote to President Trump urging the administration to “proceed cautiously, solicit feedback from industry, and ensure that well-intentioned proposals do not have unforeseen, damaging effects on the U.S. economy.”

Over the past two months, Mr. Trump and others in his administration have deepened their criticism of China, particularly for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, alleging that Beijing had covered up the outbreak and gobbled up protective gear that left the U.S. ill-equipped to handle the outbreak here. The administration’s critics charge that Mr. Trump was focusing on China as a way to deflect from criticism that he has acted ineffectively to contain the virus.

The move against Huawei is bound to give the president an additional political talking point that he has been tougher on China than his presumptive Democratic opponent, former vice president Joe Biden. But the action carries political risks also if the anti-China offensive tanks an already fragile stock market. Over the past two years, Mr. Trump has sometimes backed off his attacks on China when the market has swooned.

“We must amend our rules exploited by Huawei and HiSilicon and prevent U.S. technologies from enabling malign activities contrary to U.S. national-security and foreign-policy interests,” said Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in his announcement of the new rule.

Hu Xijin, editor of the nationalist Global Times newspaper, in a tweet on Friday warned that Qualcomm Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Apple Inc. and Boeing Inc. all could be targets of retaliation. Mr. Hu is typically seen as channeling the views of more hawkish members of China’s Communist Party leadership.

A Boeing spokesman said the company was confident the U.S. and China would continue discussions to resolve trade and other issues. The sides “have both been clear how vital the aviation sector is to both countries,” he said. Qualcomm, Cisco and Apple didn’t respond to requests for comment.

The senior administration official played down the impact of the rule on Huawei. ‘This is a licensing requirement,” the official said. “It doesn’t necessarily mean things are denied.”

A year ago, Commerce Department officials put Huawei on an export blacklist of companies considered to be national-security threats. That move was designed to cut Huawei off from some U.S. semiconductor makers. Over the last year, however, Huawei’s suppliers have largely managed to get around the blacklisting through a technicality. American companies—such as Qualcomm Inc. and Intel Corp. —could still supply Huawei with some chips that are manufactured overseas.

At a news conference discussing the company’s annual results in March, Eric Xu, Huawei’s deputy chairman, warned that Beijing would retaliate against American companies operating in China if the Trump administration moved ahead with the new rule.

The rule change is expected to hurt American makers of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, led by Applied Materials Inc., Lam Research Corp. and KLA Corp. The equipment industry has lobbied against the move, arguing in recent letters to the Commerce Department and Mr. Trump they should at least be allowed to comment before the change took effect. Applied Materials, Lam Research and KLA didn’t respond to requests for comment.

U.S. semiconductor equipment makers dominate the market, with a share of about 45% of global sales, which are projected at around $58 billion this year by SEMI, an industry group. American companies are expected to export about $21 billion of manufacturing equipment to foreign semiconductor factories this year.

Restrictions placed on manufacturing equipment used to make chips for Huawei means non-U.S. factories may favor equipment made outside the U.S. because it comes with fewer strings attached, to the detriment of the U.S. industry.


another link

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-semiconductors-tsmc/taiwan-semiconductor-to-announce-plans-for-us-factory-source-idUSKBN22Q38T

bump

Honestly, good on Taiwan. Outsourced to the US, but I do wonder how the patriots would see such a thing.