Anti-Racism Sites Hit By Wave of Cyberattacks (bbc.com) 248
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Cyber-attacks against anti-racism organizations shot up in the wake of the death of George Floyd, a leading provider of protection services says. Cloudflare, which blocks attacks designed to knock websites offline, says advocacy groups in general saw attacks increase 1,120-fold. Mr Floyd's death, in police custody, has sparked nationwide civil unrest in the US. Government and military websites also saw a notable increase in attacks. Cloudflare says that after Mr Floyd's death and the ensuing violent clashes between police and protesters, it saw a noticeable jump in the amount of requests it blocked -- an extra 19 billion (17%) from the corresponding weekend the previous month. That equates to an extra 110,000 blocked requests every second, it said.
The problem was particularly acute for certain types of organizations. One single website belonging to an unnamed advocacy group dealt with 20,000 requests a second. Anti-racism groups which belong to Cloudflare's free program for at-risk organizations saw a large surge in the past week, from near-zero to more than 120 million blocked requests. Attacks on government and military websites were also up — by 1.8 and 3.8 times respectively.
The problem was particularly acute for certain types of organizations. One single website belonging to an unnamed advocacy group dealt with 20,000 requests a second. Anti-racism groups which belong to Cloudflare's free program for at-risk organizations saw a large surge in the past week, from near-zero to more than 120 million blocked requests. Attacks on government and military websites were also up — by 1.8 and 3.8 times respectively.
Another one bites the dust. Sieg HEIL! (Score:4, Funny)
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Anyone with any useful knowledge or talent fled the site long ago.
You do know that you're posting here and not on a different site, don't you?
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Nobody's saying it, but we're all tired of the harem plots, the giant robots plots, the MMORPG plots, etc.
Let's get back to basics! Make Anime Great Again!
Re:Another one bites the dust. Sieg HEIL! (Score:5, Funny)
Amen, brother. This site became a MAGA cesspool over the last couple years.
Unfortunately, it did. The problem is that education has gotten so good that even these people can read and write today (well, to some degree).
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+1 Funny
Crimea and Hong Kong (Score:3, Insightful)
Look for a new set of invasions by our buddies in Russia or China while the US is distracted.
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Look for a new set of invasions by our buddies in Russia or China while the US is distracted.
Signed "OrangeTide".
(LOL)
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The Orange Party is like the Red Party but they are more Yellow.
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More like a lot of old people who don't know how to adjust their monitor settings?
Re:Crimea and Hong Kong (Score:5, Insightful)
This is an Evasion by Russia and China.
They don't need to use weapons, because they can obtain their objectives by other safer means.
These countries are playing both sides. Making sure the Liberal Leaning folks feel really strong about their Liberal agenda, and the Conservative leaning folks feel really strong about their Conservative agenda.
So if you are Liberal Leaning there is enough fake news and memes and propaganda that makes you lean further left, to a point saying communism is good.
If you are right leaning there is enough fake news and memes and propaganda that makes you lean further right, to a point saying a fascism is good.
The real target it towards our main institutions, including the separation of powers, and representative democracy. This works for these countries favor in the long run, because the longer America acts like a 3rd world nation, and leadership having fits, and keeping us divided, they are safer, and other smaller countries will turn to them as the adults in the room, to have their agenda pushed.
American Greatness came out of the fact that our core infrastructure was never hit during WWII. So during the Rebuilding period for the rest of the world, the US had the strongest position, and tried to use its strong position to put its best foot forward to show how great the nation is. It wasn't our military, or technology that convinced the world, but Hollywood and Support for human rights, and democracy that help make a good portion of the world alley with us. Vs the USSR who had to occupy land to be in its influence.
No I am not saying America is or Was perfect. During this time we did a Lot of stupid stuff, that has long term repercussions, and internally we still have a lot of problems that needed to be dealt with. However as Americans we were unified as Americans and powerful because of it. Making us Red State vs Blue State. Liberal vs Conservative and really trying to bring out the worse traits in our systems. Is greatly weakening America, and creating a power vacuum for other countries to take up.
Setup some false equivelancies (Score:4, Insightful)
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You're making the mistake of conflating "communism" with "democratic socialism", which are VERY different things. Democratic Socialism is not "socialism" in the way that communism uses it. Maybe if people would open their fucking eyes for once in their lives, they would actually realize the differences.
Re: Crimea and Hong Kong (Score:5, Insightful)
You really made the GP's point here. The "Democratic Socialism" that some US politicians are pushing is more or less just catching up with the social policies and living standards of other developed nations with market economies. Labeling of it as a type of socialism is frankly stupid when the term "social democracy" already exists.
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Look for a new set of invasions by our buddies in Russia or China while the US is distracted.
Well, there is the spate of scuffles and subsequent troop buildups along the Indian-Chinese border that hasn't really hit the news much. And of course we have China basically removing Hong Kong's freedoms, but that's a little more visible.
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Countries come and go, some of them never even come together for long enough to be recognized as a country. Germany didn't really solidify into something we'd recognize as a single country until relatively recently in 1815. And thrashed around with different government structures until only a few decades ago.
History will remember Palestine, no matter what the final result is.
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The way things are going (full Idiocracy mode but with pandemics and wars), they'll be lucky not to be confused with Emperor Palpatine.
Re:Crimea and Hong Kong (Score:5, Insightful)
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The president has very little power of the economy. Yet every presidential will take credit for all upswings and blame their predecessor for all declines. The power that the presidents do have take a long time to see the effects of. They are trying to guide a rolling boulder by nudging it with sticks. Maybe someone rarely gets a little bit smarter and tries to dig grooves into the ground in front of the boulder.
So if anyone thinks that their favorite politician, in a free country without dictatorial con
You want Trump? This is how you get Trump. (Score:4, Insightful)
I disagree (Score:5, Informative)
Take Trump's response to the "Bunker Boy" moniker. He used the Military to fire tear gas on peaceful protesters so he could walk to an Episcopal church, snap a photo with a bible that wasn't his, and walk back. This was clearly done in response to that moniker, and there is video of the tear gas, the peaceful protests and of the Bishop of the church furious that he came without notice and didn't pray, only staying long enough to get the picture.
If you just watch Fox News though there was no tear gas, the church leaders were thrilled to have him and he prayed.
If social media, which seems to be the only outside media his base has any chance of exposure to, begins to fact check him on every Tweet & post then he's done. The spell's broken. The Emperor has no cloths and everyone will see.
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your average Trump voter is loyal to Trump because they're completely trapped in a media bubble.
Good strategy. Double down on the condescension that got Trump elected in 2016. This time it will work.
Re:I disagree (Score:5, Insightful)
your average Trump voter is loyal to Trump because they're completely trapped in a media bubble.
Good strategy. Double down on the condescension that got Trump elected in 2016. This time it will work.
Exactly. I think ratcheting up the rhetoric from 'deplorable' to 'racist child molesters' will do the trick. If not, there is always the next swamp castle.
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Nah, Trump is on track to lose heavily. Maybe the worst defeat for a century.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/m... [forbes.com]
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By November the normalcy of post lockdown life without a job will be really biting.
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I've no idea how you've connected those particular dots. Tell me: how does a bunch of racists attacking anti-racism organizations lead to more votes for Trump?
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It is insane how hard Silicon Valley techies trying to tip the scales. Well, the results at the poll will be more and harder blowback by people's FU voting for Trump. Not because he is a good candidate, but because FU for trying to silence the opposition.
I've no idea how you've connected those particular dots. Tell me: how does a bunch of racists attacking anti-racism organizations lead to more votes for Trump?
Anti-racist organizations promote tribalism by promulgating it. All this does is create unnecessary division and animosity.
Imagine what would happen if the protests focused on police brutality rather than tribe x is responsible for tribe y's problems. Tribe x privilege, fuck tribe z12, images of members of mostly tribe y on TV acting like lawless animals looting rioting.
You might actually get consensus for meaningful change if you found a way not to blame other tribes for your tribes problems. But no the language is mostly division.. the language is tribe against tribe. You might not see it that way but I guarantee you double digit percentage of the population does. Sure much of it is stoked by the media to further their dual mission of keeping people perpetually outraged and afraid yet many of these groups indulge in the same types of language and commit the same errors.
Thanks for answering as I just posted a similar question!
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It is insane how hard Silicon Valley techies trying to tip the scales. Well, the results at the poll will be more and harder blowback by people's FU voting for Trump. Not because he is a good candidate, but because FU for trying to silence the opposition.
Could you explain in a step by step manner the mechanism that gets Trump reelected from cloudflare reporting that anti-racism sites are being hit by bots, because it's not obvious to me how that works?
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It is insane how hard Silicon Valley techies trying to tip the scales.
By providing anti-DDoS service? Man the quality of discord here has gone down since states legalised weed.
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Oh, Trump is still a joke and cannot be taken seriously. The problem is that they overlooked that a large part of the voters are even worse.
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Moron... not taking problems seriously is part of the problem.
Grow UP!
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Okay you are literally being an example of what he is talking about.
Both Sides arguments are totally valid because it calls out hypocrisy. If your pursuit is to end racism but wind up creating racism in the effort then there is definitely a problem there and accusations of whataboutism and both sides is really just a complete admission that since it happened to you, you should be able to do it to others.
You know where that is going right? Yes we are indeed figuring out how it comes off... where you get to
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> when you've got those fuckers marching in NC with the tiki torches,
Oh no, someone dislikeable was *marching*? How awful.
> you got the President gassing folks to go hold a bible
Gas? How many died?
Oh wait, it was smoke canisters and pepper balls against a group that refused to disperse and which had injured 50 of the guards. The CDC says that sometimes people use the words "tear gas" imprecisely, though, so we're not going to correct anything.
> and you literally have cops killing black people
Tho
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though they over-charged them and are going to have a hard time getting a conviction now because they have to prove intent, not just "depraved heart."
They charged them with multiple crimes at once, so if the jury finds he didn't have intent, they can still find him guilty of manslaughter.
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That's encouraging, actually. Can you point me to a copy of the charging document?
Anti Racist ? (Score:2)
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Only if they start protests that murder people [imgflip.com].
Friendly reminder (Score:5, Insightful)
Facts:
Not all cops are thugs: no problem
Not all black people are thugs: no problem
Not all white people are thugs: no problem
Not all protesters are thugs: no problem
Some cops are thugs: problem
Some black people are thugs: problem
Some white people are thugs: problem
Some protesters are thugs: problem
What can be done for problems?
Some cops are thugs:
We need a better pool of people to pick from. Currently a very limited set of people with very similar mentalities apply to become policemen and policewomen. It's important to realize that the job of the police is by nature, very tempting to take advantage of. Not a lot of policing the police.
Some black/white people are thugs:
This starts in the home and is true even for pets. If you're always upset and act violently, expect the same from your kids
Some protesters are thugs:
These are prety much the same thugs as above, but here you may find random people that hide their thugginess for the most part, and they're using these riots as a release, and chance to loot freebies.
Conclusion:
Some people are making life suck for the rest. This has been going on forever. It won't end, ever. Adjust your expectations for the universe to accomodate a mentality that is capable of accepting that the universe isn't perfect, and doesn't care to be.
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Politics; n. : A religion whereby man is god.
Tragically true.
Can't stop love (Score:2)
Even if all of the anti-racist websites disappeared from the Internet tomorrow, the only thing that would change is that the outrage industry would instead have to write, say, science fiction or children's books instead of stoking the dying embers of racism.
Even if all of the anti-racist websites disappeared from the internet today, it wouldn't undo the love and charity I've given my fellow humans. It wouldn't stop me from loving others.
Even if all of the anti-racist websites disappeared tomorrow, the
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I live in Alabama, and have certainly been living my entire life under racial animosity. To be honest, racism is much less today than in the past, and at the same time, thuggishness has risen to an alarming rate. White folks don't like thugs. Black folks don't like thugs.
But maybe where you live, there are black people that actually LIKE it when thugs come rob them and break their town. It just doesn't make any sense to me to think that way.
Source of Cyberattacks (Score:2, Troll)
Security experts said that these cyberattacks originated from the White House.
On a serious note, I find it sad and disgusting that such a finding would not surprise me.
The first casualty of war (Score:3)
Not sure who said it, but "the first casualty of war is truth". So anti-racism sites get DoS'd. On twitter the opposition is doing everything they can to take over hash-tags like #ExposeAntifa and #WhiteLIvesMatter.
The losers in this war are people like myself who would like to be able to go to the sources and see what's being said. That's in the short run. A long term loser is the value of things like hash-tags, news sites, and google searches in the first place. They lose their utility when you have to weed through a bunch of stuff that has nothing to do with what the tag is supposed to represent, or when the web site is down, or when the search results are rigged and/or censored. A really long term loser may be historians looking for primary sources; but they'll probably have an algorithm for analyzing what's a primary source vs. what was being used to cover up a primary source by the opposition... which I suppose is also a kind of primary source. That's assuming any of the data survives, and there's a good chance it will just go into the bit bucket anyway.
Take back the term anti-racist. (Score:4, Insightful)
We need to take back the fight against racism from the critical race theorists. Just because they're labelling themselves as "anti-racist" does not mean that they are good or sane actors.
Re: They're not anti-racism (Score:5, Insightful)
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Indeed. The level of cognitive dissonance in Trumps brain must be staggering: On the one side, he is deathly afraid of being seen as even a little weak, on the other side he really likes to style himself as victim. One wonders why his head does not start to steam from that conflict. On the other hand, with that hair it is hard to tell...
Maybe we need anti-stupidity activists (Score:3)
> TBH, the person who whines the most about being a victim is Donald Trump. Somehow conservatives went from bemoaning everyone claiming to be a victim to assuming the mantle of the most victimized themselves.
Trump certainly has nothing to complain about [sharylattkisson.com].
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Modding today so posting as an AC..
Police brutality? What are you talking about?
Statistically speaking, we have a very small problem with police running amok and it's certainly NOT an issue that has a race component. Yea, there are cops out there who are on a power trip and shouldn't be cops, but the problem is incredibly small. The number of folks who die (justified or not) at the hands of cops is barely measurable. One instance is one too many, but there are MORE cops dying in the line of duty by al
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LMGTF:
https://www.theguardian.com/us... [theguardian.com]
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Here's all 10 [twitter.com] unarmed black people killed by police in 2019. I think by now you guys have shot more cops during this riot than that, or at least it's pretty close.
Weird how you're suddenly worried about some websites, but not about any of these people [imgflip.com]. Doesn't David Dorn's [dailycaller.com] life matter? This is a black man murdered by looters for the crime of defending his friend's livelihood.
Nor about the people plotting to destroy people [youtube.com].
I watched on Reddit as you complained about removing your rock & water bottle c
Zero (Score:3)
> How high is an OK number of unarmed black people to be killed by police? Must be more than 10 for you.
Someone didn't watch the video. Of the ten, six had attacked someone violently before that. There was an accidental discharge when the suspect grabbed the (black) cop's gun, one was a naked guy on drugs who invaded a woman's home and who wasn't stopped by a taser shot. Two were clearly unjustified and resulted in charges against the cops.
I wish none of them had happened, but given that your "solutio
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Here's all 10 [twitter.com] unarmed black people killed by police in 2019.
How high is an OK number of unarmed black people to be killed by police? Must be more than 10 for you.
The question is not are they unarmed, but was the shooting justified. Being unarmed doesn't exempt you from getting shot by the police, not by a long shot... (pun intended). Remember, you don't have to point a gun at the cops to get yourself legally shot...
Another poster pointed out that out of the 10, 8 where justifiable use of deadly force and the remaining 2 resulted in the officers being charged and convicted.
Seems to me, the system works as designed and it's correcting issues as they arise. One mist
Re: They're not anti-racism (Score:2)
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How convenient for you that EVEYBODY who disagrees with you is worthy of dying because they are obviously white and racist. That way you can just dismiss them with a wave of the hand, throw a brick through their window or otherwise ignore the facts they try to bring to your attention... By all means, let your ideology rule you, facts be dammed and violence is justified because your ideology demands it.
And here I thought we lived in a country where diverse opinions where protected by law...
Re: They're not anti-racism (Score:5, Insightful)
Another absolutely false statement by you - the actual number of police killed in duty is AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE LOWER, not an order of magnitude higher as you wrongly claim:
It's funny how you guys like to use the "but my per capita!" argument when it suits you, but not when it doesn't. There are less than 700,000 cops in the USA, and over 40,000,000 black people.
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Can you name a case anywhere at any time where politics resulted in a definitive "solution"?
I suggest looking higher.
Trump isn't a Republican or a Democrat (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm not sure what that has to do with your comment though. I'm pretty sure the black folks would love a solution to having force used against them 7 times more often [nytimes.com]
Why don't we get one? Because voters. Tough on Crime still brings people to the polls. Joe Biden, in a speech about the protests, managed to sneak in "Shoot them in the leg". That wasn't a gaffe or an accident, it was a message to the (white) suburban voters who he needs to win that he'll
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I don't think medians do paint a realistic picture of the populations, given the billionaires and millionaires skewing the thing up for the white side. There's no such thing as "racial trickle down".
But if you guarantee a decent minimum level of wage and education, you do reduce the crimes, regardless of race problems.
Also sadly, the US don't live in a vacuum and if they stop making guns, china will make guns and china will turn into the "world police", and well, i don't think you want people like those bas
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I don't think medians do paint a realistic picture of the populations, given the billionaires and millionaires skewing the thing up for the white side.
That's why you take the median, not the mean. It's a quick way to normalize out the extreme outliers (like billionaires).
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Indeed indeed.
Re: Trump isn't a Republican or a Democrat (Score:2)
I'm not sure what that has to do with your comment though. I'm pretty sure the black folks would love a solution to having force used against them 7 times more often
You're just objectively wrong about that. I've told plenty of black folks the solution: stop trying to fight with cops. They didn't seem to like it much at all.
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Police have a tough job, they deal with the worst of society on a daily basis and see a lot of awful things. They don't often deal with the best of the public. That tends to put them in an 'us vs them' mind set, where the worst is thought of people they meet on the job, until proven otherwise, and a sort of club attitude arises with the other police, so they protect each other. It's a natural job hazard and it takes care and effort to avoid falling into traps over it
Re: They're not anti-racism (Score:5, Insightful)
Trump was a Democrat first... a fact many people seem to conveniently forget.
Trump is pro-Trump; he belongs to whichever party or religion that boosts his chances of being talked about the most. He doesn't care about Democrats or Republicans any more than he cares about the content of that bible he was waving around.
Re: They're not anti-racism (Score:4, Interesting)
Hold up... You just referenced almost all politicians that ever existed.
You only hate Trump because he is not on your side. If Trump was saying the stuff you did like you would like him... even if he didn't do what he said.
Police Brutality occurs that same in Democrat lead cities just like in Republican ones and BLM started under Obama. Yet the only thing you clowns want to do is blame Trump for shit. Sure Trump is a fucking moron, but these problems were here long before he was.
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That is a combination of strawman and whataboutism. Many politicians like to think that they're doing good for society, and some even try their best.
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Lol... no.. that is a call out to the double standard on display. I also said "almost" which left from room for the few politicians that do care.
And like I always say... crying about whataboutism is a weak and pathetic attempt to dismiss hypocrisy... and is tantamount to an admission of guilt.
This is really one of those... clean up your house first before you bitch about the other one. This goes for everyone! As long as you let the corruption rule your party you have no standing to complain about the cor
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That is a combination of strawman and whataboutism. Many politicians like to think that they're doing good for society, and some even try their best.
Absolutely. For instance, both Stalin and Hitler undoubtedly thought they were acting in the best interest of society, and they both tried really really hard.
Personally I'd rather take a politician who does nothing but play golf all day.
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When he was a Democrat he didn't agree with the traditional Democratic platform policies, and now that he's a Republican he doesn't follow the traditional Republican platform policies. And yet, the Republicans are following and cheering someone who is the very definition of a RINO. It just highlights that politics much more about taking sides and cheering for your home team much more than it is about policies and ideals.
Normally, candidates lean left or right during primaries to appeal to the party faithf
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Anyone have a half-way smart, ethical party I can join. The primary options all suck.
And that seems to be the real root of the problem: Democracy is basically a spectator sport in the US. That does not work and leads exactly to the kind of corruption observable. Lets face it, even the distance between Republican core positions and what Bernie would actually have done in reality (not what he promised to do) are not that large.
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It happens. Matter of fact, this isn't even the most extreme example by far.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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It happens. Matter of fact, this isn't even the most extreme example by far.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
That example nicely show that extremists are primarily extremists. Actual positions on issues are secondary and can be changed.
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Trump never was anything but Trump. The guy is incapable in believing in something bigger than himself.
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Trump is not a good representation of a political party. He is only in it for himself.
If Trump run as a Democrat.
There will be a different set of Stupid people who would support them, Including a good number of the Democrat in Congress and the House. Most of the current Trump Supporters will be up an arms on how vial he is.
That said. Trump is still a bad man. Who shouldn't be president, even if he decided to keep abortions and push greater environmental fixes. He will be just as bad.
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The convenient scapegoat now is racism. As in there are large swaths of the country who are so racist they'd casually murder people just because they're of another race/group.
Which seems to be untrue. Everyone's racist to a certain degree: you grow up with a particular circumstance, things that fall outside that tend to be new/confusing/things you're unused to.
But that level of racism is generally "huh, that's weird". not "I will kill anyone unlike me". My father literally grew up in a small town in the 40s
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I reject your rejection of racism argument. It's a distraction.
At this point it doesn't matter if the cops murdered George Floyd because they hated black people or not. This is is about police brutality and holding law enforcement accountable.
During these protests we've seen journalists and peaceful protesters and even innocent bystanders and people trying to protect their own businesses targeted by cops.
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Wow so many stupid things.
When their are measurable actives showing that the Victims were targeted from aspects that they cannot change, have no rational reason to change, or easily change. I am going to go against the groups that are targeting these aspects to make them victims. I may not have any person connection with the victim and I probably wouldn't be friends with them. However I would be against the group that tries to make their lives needless difficult. Hence why it is called Anti-Racism.
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My take is on the Russians, since they seem more likely to be invested in political-level subterfuge. They also seem more likely to have the cultural reach/understanding to effectively achieve this.
The Chinese seem more invested in economic/IP theft and some level of military-driven espionage. The Iranians and and the North Koreans seem more driven by infrastructure sabotage-type hacking, things that increase their asymmetrical warfare advantage.
All three of these, especially the North Koreans, would seem
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Domestic groups are more organized and tech savvy than ever. The internet is where they build a lot of their support.
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You do learn quite a bit about people based on who they want to assume is responsible though.
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Just knowing what a botnet is makes you tech savvy. Most people think it's some technobabble from Star Trek.
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Domestic groups are more organized and tech savvy than ever. The internet is where they build a lot of their support.
I doubt they are tech savvy. Their members are too stupid and uneducated for that. But you can essentially buy these services from techies without ethics.
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Either way we all know the truth. This is sponsored content for Cloudflare.
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Those sites might simply be receiving increased traffic.
Either way we all know the truth. This is sponsored content for Cloudflare.
Using a full quote from the article: "Anti-racism groups which belong to Cloudflare's free programme for at-risk organisations saw a large surge in the past week, from near-zero to more than 120 million blocked requests.".
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The truth is that neither population group uses bots that much. Instead, foreign actors - mostly Russia - use bots on both sides in attempt to undermine civility and disrupt America.
But the reason everyone talks about the bots from the right more than the bots from the left is that the bots on both sides parrot the extreme beliefs of the actual members.
When a bot says "Reparations Now!" from the left, moderate people think 'that's stupid' and ignore it, but when the bot says "Send them back to Africa", mod
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So in other words, you're the real victim here.
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I like how this sites reporting like so many other places is completely detached from reality. If you just went by the stories here you'd think that the proBLM is some beaten down tiny faction under siege by a sea of hick MAGA racists when in reality everybody in their mother is posting a black swatch on their profile pic and lecturing everybody about BLM and the overwhelming amount of protests in RL are proBLM and anybody even dissenting a little from the narrative is attacked. Same way Twitter is supposedly overrun with nothing but even rightwingers and their bots when in reality the vast majority of Twitter is leftwing and there isn't any reason to believe they use bots any less than the rightwingers.
If you could exemplify this with a few links to the relevant slashdot stories it would really help your case.
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"We need to lobby the government to shut them down and tighten restrictions on such organisations."
So do to them what they are trying to do to others? This type of logic is clearly the kind where you later scream that you got hung with the rope you gave someone to hang another territory!
Remember when Republicans supported gun control under Reagan when they saw black people with guns? Do you now see how much those folks are crying about gun laws now? This is not some unknown phenomenon, it is well documen
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These are not real charities. We're talking about lobbying, marketing, advertising and special interests companies to evade tax.
No one cares. That's what happens when you keep crying wolf. We do not care even if you do get eaten up. You're wasting your time.
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We need to lobby the government to shut them down and tighten restrictions on such organisations.
We sure as hell don’t. They’ve got first Amendment rights too. If you don’t like what they have to say or believe they are wrong about something then you can exercise your own free speech.
People really need to stop viewing the government as a tool for their own personal brand of tyranny.
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I don't see why I should care. Most so called anti-racism outfits are money making operations that don't have enough racism to be anti so make it up to be able to draw an income. Many others are racist themselves. If you're racist and want to advance the interests of your race then the best way to do that is to register as a charity and say it's against racism. In reality it's against white people or it's against anything that's against its race even if the same thing is against all other races as well.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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I do care about racism. Racism is bad. Don't be racist.
(See how easy that was? No mention of anybody's skin colour because it's irrelevant. Racism is bad. Don't be racist.)