"Trump reveals he's taking hydroxychloroquine in effort to prevent coronavirus symptoms"

After hearing interviews with multiple virologists that worked on the research team for Covid, this was what China was using before we had vaccines. I'm beginning to think that liberalism=anti science.

You do realize doctors were prescribing this during the pandemic to alleviate symptoms? It's dummies like you that push these false narratives.

He's a folk hero to me. It shows the world that leftists are violent thugs at heart and shouldn't have power anywhere. The correct party won the election. I hope you feel the same way when shithead leftists succumb to the same fate.

"Not that Harris has a plan to fix this, but blame should lay at the feet of the faulty."

Yes, Biden and the Democrats. Trump wanted to be liked and listened to the all of the Democrats that wanted to continue with the lock downs that didn't work, destroying many local businesses in the process. Biden promised to 'build back better' and not only closed one of the largest domestic pipelines his first day, which contributed to the inflation, but did nothing in the mean time to actually help our economy.

If you are talking about section 174, it's supported by both parties.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kbkg.com%2Ffeature%2Fr...

Liberalism definitely rots your brain...as shown by the comments in this article (and article itself).

All phones are made in China, even the Apple Iphone. The interesting part of the phone isn't the hardware, it's the security software that's pre-installed...and worth the money for many people that are security-minded, but might not be as tech savvy.

The Democrats just announced that they are working hand-in-hand with sites like Facebook to squash opposing opinions deemed "misinformation" akin to the Great firewall of China. Instead of the tech community complaining about this, they complain about something that actually improve privacy or a non-tech person. The coordinated hit-pieces I've seen on this very phone since it was announced is also suspect.

I've lost all respect for the hacker community. The same people that claimed they were freedom fighters were merely authoritarians with no power. Now that their side is in power, they use and promote authoritarian crackdown of our most basic freedoms.

At least we have an opportunity to change their minds and those people have the freedom to make the choice.

If the coasts were running our country, we would be doomed. Take a look at Detroit to see a glimpse into the future of a completely Democrat-run city.

Your snide comments about the middle of the country being stupid and uneducated is exactly why Trump won. Democrats should have licked their wounds and admit their mistakes. Instead, they are doubling-down on the lies, hatred of America, and witch hunts.

I think people seem to forget that Trump brought up fake news and Russian meddling during the election. We had people on the left coming out in droves saying that this was against our democracy to say this.

Then after he wins, it's now somehow turned against him (like children that don't know how to respond when they are in trouble).

Why are we also not mentioning that many of the Russian bot accounts were posting about anti-trump, BLM, and other leftist protest events (so many liberals also fell for fake news). Intentionally leaving out facts to smear the opposition is fake news. This is why Trump won and will most likely win again in 2020.

I think both the Russians and the Chinese have both been meddling with our elections online since at least the Obama administration. Reddit had many bots posting support for him during both elections and he even spammed Facebook/used a flaw during the 2008 election that helped him win (which was closed conveniently after the election). If Trump did this, there would be blood in the streets and he would probably be sued.

The sick part is that if Hillary won, we would see business as usual. Nobody would care about Russian meddling (especially the media) and anyone that mentioned it would be laughed out of the room...like when Obama tried to say that the Russians weren't are enemy in a debate against Mitt Romney. The mainstream media is clearly biased. During Obama's 2 terms, I don't think I saw even one negative article about him on any of the mainstream news sites (besides Fox).

The leaked DNC emails also clearly showed the media bias during the election (feeding Hillary questions, dinners at her house) and that she colluded with our local press to smear Bernie Sanders and essentially destroy any chance he had at winning. If you don't see something wrong with this, you are the problem.

" They actually define junk news in the paper."

Right. Painting an entire site with the same broad brush.

"Even when sites like the Infowars happen to say something that is true, that doesn't mean the site itself isn't junk news. "

If that's the case, nearly all news sites are 'junk news'. I've seen junk articles on nearly every news site, mainstream and independent.

"that you can be killed by police for no meaningful reason"

That's a broad generalization made on many different complicated situations. There have been a few recent cases of overzealous officers, but it's definitely not the norm.

"thrown in jail for years for possession of a weed"

I keep hearing this lie when it comes to US law and weed. If you are just smoking a joint, the police will not even arrest you. The people in prison for 'possession' all had pounds of it on them, with intent to sell or multiple other offenses/existing warrants.

"have your home/possessions/money confiscated with little legal recourse"

Now, I think you are really confusing China with the US.

"arrested for standing on a sidewalk, beaten in the middle of the street for asking "why", "

I'm not even going to comment on the ridiculousness of this claim. Are we talking about China again?

How about the fact that China has the largest number of executions in the world and we only have an estimate because the actual numbers are hidden?! They revolutionized the lethal injection drugs many other countries use today because they've had many people to use as it on. Is this considered a clinical trial? It's disingenuous to compare prison populations with a country that literally kills their prisoners before they have a chance to serve any time.

More on the glorious justice system of China:

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Here's something you will love:

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"Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the People's Republic of China. It is mostly enforced for murder and drug trafficking, and executions are carried out by lethal injection or gun shooting"

So you don't go to prison for drug charges in China, you are executed. Seems pretty fair and balanced, right?

I'm still not sure why so many people in the US love China so much. If you have enough money, it's great. You could murder someone and get out of prison time by paying the right people off. It's paradise for the rich and famous. But for the average citizen, it's full government control. The majority of China is still stuck in the third-world (aside from a few major cities), mostly because of the lack of real freedoms.

Another side-effect of authoritarianism is the lack of innovation. Nearly everything propping up the Chinese economy is a knockoff of something created in another country. It's tough for someone to want to ask why? or how? when the government spends so much time teaching you that you shouldn't question authority or go beyond the status quo.

China's justice system is not even in the same Universe as a country like the US. There is literally NO justice for you, unless you are wealthy and powerful in China. In fact, we wouldn't even be having this conversation because if we were under the same Chinese government, Slashdot would be owned in part, by the government, and all dissenting thought would be banned.

I've actually lived in both the US and China, have you?

Here is what I found on Wikipedia:

"White Americans are the racial majority, with a 77.7% share of the U.S. population. Hispanic and Latino Americans amount to 17.1% of the population, making up the largest minority. African Americans are the largest racial minority, amounting to 13.2% of the population."

So, African-americans are 13.2% of the population.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/fea...

Roughly 39% that go to college, graduate (and this is out of the percentage that actually go in the first place). So it makes sense that Tech companies, no matter how racially diverse, are hiring less African-Americans. Even if 100% went to college, they would still be only a fraction of the workforce, if completely represented.

We need to get to the root of the problem instead of focus on the symptoms. Symptoms have been focused on for many years (affirmative action, etc) and it doesn't seem to be working. What needs to happen is in the home and I don't think the government can really do anything about it.

http://www.politifact.com/trut...

72% of African-american children are born out of wedlock.

"Estimates for the percentage of African-American children growing up in single-parent households are slightly lower, at 67 percent"

"Perhaps if companies stopped anally raping their employees without lubrication, treating them with a shred of dignity instead of potential criminals, and paid them somewhere reasonable, perhaps this feel for employees to feel like they should steal from the company as they felt the company had stolen from them would be less likely to happen."

You aren't forced to work anywhere. If you feel you are being raped by your company...leave. Most people that I hear complaining like you just don't have the balls to quit. At this point, it's as much your employer's fault as it is yours.

"What motive do scientists have to deceive us? We don't take Einstein's General Theory of Relativity with a grain of salt do we? (At least only qualified people can meaningfully criticize it if at all.)"

Because global warming research is getting funding from the government. It mean more grant money for research.

Governments around the world are using man-made global warming to charge citizens even more taxes. If this wasn't the case, and no money was involved, I might be less suspicious of these "qualified people".

"There is a big difference between copying others stuff as an aid to making a profit like the corporations the poster is talking about has done and a person copying something without the interest of making a profit off it."

Why does profit matter? It seems the open source community is not interested in making a profit. However, many become interested when someone else puts the hard work into it and makes money.

Since you don't care in the first place, how is it really hurting you if a company makes a profit? You aren't losing anything.

"This is not so much "My information shouldn't be free" but "stop using my works for profit when the license explicitly says for non-commercial use.""

which is only saying that you refuse to follow a license you don't believe in, yet expect others to follow one that you do. Because of all the pro-piracy comments that come up on a weekly basis here, it makes me happy when a company violates an open source license.

It's giving you a taste of your own medicine.

"Go play ball on your side of the court and I'll stay on mine. We can easily co-exist.. as neighbours.. but if you mess with my stuff you have to pay (with labour), as well as you force me to pay (with money) when I play with yours."

More people are getting in trouble with violating the GNU than with abusing copyrights. The reason I'm going to continue violating (and advocate it) the GPL is because of the fact that the same people that are up-in-arms about GPL violations are pro-piracy and even feel it's their right to share copyrighted materials freely.