US Joe Biden News Megathread - The Other Biden Derangement Syndrome Thread (with a side order of Fauci Derangement Syndrome)

Let's pretend for one moment that he does die before the election, just for the funsies. What happens then? Will the nomination revert to option number 2, aka Bernie Sanders? Or will his running mate automatically replace him just the way Vice-President is supposted to step in after the Big Man in the White House chokes on a piece of matzo? Does he even have a running mate yet?

 

[Salubrious]

Biden shiller Chris Cuomo is apparently as creepy as his big brother Andrew.

Opinion | Chris Cuomo Sexually Harassed Me. I Hope He’ll Use His Power to Make Change.

His former boss wants harassers and enablers held accountable.

www.google.com

Here is the archive, because the NY Times site is dumb.

https://archive.is/62Kb0

I am going to spend ZERO seconds defending Cuomo, but this is a prime example of why you should never make a token PR apology. Because they will use your PR apology as proof of guilt in the public eye.

 

[Kane Lives]

This is a pretty significant headline on the front page because Yahoo is somehow even more left leaning than CNN most the time.

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Damn, Orange Man really screwed the po-- oh, it's Biden.



Nonononononono this is NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN. BIDEN IS SUPPOSED TO BRING US BACK TO NORMAL.

 

[CrippleThreat]

I'm loving how Maricopa County is suddenly now Arizona.

Journalists deserve absolute denigration.

 

[There'll be another time]

I'm glad to hear that. Maybe I've been going down too many Twitter rabbit holes lately, because I have absolutely seen plenty of tweets blaming Trump for Afghanistan.

Twitter is only 5% of the population Salubrious. It doesn't represent the general population.

I have a running theory that twitter only has 3-5 million (1.5% of users) consistent active users and the rest are bots.

Twitter has no incentive to crack down on bots as this would make their site look way less active and palatable to investors and much of the bot activity is apparently very easy to find if you have Twitter's API

Someone in the NeoGAF/ResetEra thread wrote about this:

Spoiler: Said post

Post in thread 'NeoGAF & ResetERA' https://kiwifarms.net/threads/neogaf-resetera.9636/post-9725149

Bits of note:

Yup! There's no chance their forum software doesn't record who voted for what on each poll. It already has to record that a user voted on a specific poll to prevent users from voting multiple times. Might as well just add the actual vote as a column too. You can design a forum poll system that prevents double-voting, keeps accurate vote counts and ensures actual votes can't be traced back to the user who cast them (rather like a real election system), but it's easier to just slap each vote in a "votes" table with the user, poll and choice than it would be to split it all out to anonymize it.

The funny thing about it is that the "easy" method is (to no one's surprise) the slowest, and the most common way to solve that specific problem is to periodically scan the votes table to update the counts in a "tally table" that's much smaller and faster ... which is one step removed from just doing it right to begin with.

Yeah, it's generally not that hard. Twitter bots aren't even remotely sophisticated (because they don't need to be; the target audience is composed entirely of fucking idiots), so they just watch/search for key words or phrases to trigger a specific response. That response is identical every time it's posted. It's why you'll often see the same exact post made sometimes thousands of times by just as many different users -- they're all bot accounts. Every one of them. Often they're all managed (by the thousands) by a single instance of a piece of software running on a low-rent server somewhere. It's lightweight, fast, cheap and easy.

You can literally catch bot accounts by the thousands just watching the Twitter "firehose" API for an hour, hashing the text content of every message (cleaned up first -- strip out mentions, punctuation and whitespace, lowercase the string, etc.), and counting how many times you see each hash. If you see a hash more than 20-30 times, it's no longer coincidence. Typically if you're going to see a hash repeated at all, you're going to see it hundreds or thousands of times. Every account that posted it is a bot.

Real live idiots will parrot the same talking points almost verbatim, but spacing, word choice, phrasing surrounding the "meat" of the talking point, etc. will vary a little bit. Bots may vary what they say from time to time (or even from post to post), but every time they say something, they say it on tons of accounts all at once.

Naturally Twitter does nothing to stop this despite detection being trivial. An idiot like me can spot them using the technique I've described here. Twitter's got access to all sorts of data I don't -- things like browser fingerprints, IP logs, precise API call timing, API key usage rates, etc. They could easily stop all of it. They just don't want to. They know it'd cut traffic down to almost nothing instantly and they're only afloat on the faith of their investors in the user counts and traffic Twitter shows them every quarter.

Source: worked for a market research company, took over development on a twitter firehose ingest tool from a former (fired) developer, noticed tons of repetition, started digging, discovered all sorts of things (including the above), saved employer 6 figures per year by proving Twitter is utterly worthless for market research and justifying not paying Twitter for firehose access anymore.

I didn't say "one account posting the same reply thousands of time." I said "thousands of accounts posting the same reply verbatim in different threads." I have no doubt there are people who post the same thing over and over again. They do not have the same posting patterns as a collection of bot accounts. A bot "swarm" will post the exact same message (from thousands of different accounts) in the span of a few minutes. Humans don't do that as quickly. Humans take more time to echo each other. Swarms are much faster.

Meh. People suck at acting like robots. There's always little differences you can pick up on. And they can never get the timing right. When you're doing analytics on a firehose feed it's a lot easier to spot than you might realize.

Combined with that I've rarely seen a post over 300k likes, which would be 7-10% of the total active human userbase, and enough to make things look natural and account for some community divisions and such, supliment with bots to fill in the gaps, the low intelligence of twitter users, my personal theory is the numbers stand somewhere between 3-5M people that are consistently active. (Leaning somewhere around 3.5M personally)

That's my two cents on Twitter anyway

 

[Oxous]

@There'll be another time (can't reply to you)
When you think about it it does put that $800 million lawsuit into perspective. Twitter paid close to a billion dollars to settle the lawsuit - they didn't lose it or anything. Not an insignificant amount for them either, they made 4 billion in revenue in 2020.

 

[murdered meat bag]

Its not against citizens, it's against military which to my knowledge includes military veterans as well as any active duty they determine for whatever reason to be of questionable loyalty.
But they determined last year that retired vets are still subject to military court actions, per my understanding.

Military Retirees Can Be Court-Martialed After All, Appeals Court Decides

A naval appeals court found that a retiree was properly court-martialed for a crime committed after he had left active duty.

www.military.com

They're going to use this as precedence against vets who talk shit about biden and the admin. Some military dept posted the Military code about disparaging the president and shit a few weeks ago. Heard it on a military vet podcast.

Kamala's not a guaranteed tiebreaker here either. She wants to keep her head down, out of the limelight. Breaking a tie for that will fuck that up right good and quick. The VP can, rather than vote aye or nay to break a tie, abstain.

doesn't the veep vote in the negative on ties?

 

[Gehenna]

They're going to use this as precedence against vets who talk shit about biden and the admin. Some military dept posted the Military code about disparaging the president and shit.

That's... not accurate. The person involved in this was 'retired', but was still obtaining pay on retainer. Basically, he could be called in at any time. So while he was retired, he was not actually out of the military. This would not qualify to someone fully discharged from the military.

"Delivering the majority opinion of the court, NMCCA Judge Marine Lt. Col. John Stephens wrote that the decision was based in part on Begani's membership in the Fleet Reserve, where, although functionally retired, he continued to receive some "retainer pay" and base privileges."

 

[Absolutego]

Twitter is a minority of a minority, an absolutely minuscule sample of the population pulling almost exclusively from the far left of the Overton window. It is so unrepresentative that my firm actually has a ban on having Twitter accounts for any business purpose.

Which is why it's both hilarious and horrifying that the current administration seems to base their actions so heavily on what will get them shoutouts on journo twitter. The Border Patrol having horses taken away from them being the latest example.

 

[Salubrious]

Which is why it's both hilarious and horrifying that the current administration seems to base their actions so heavily on what will get them shoutouts on journo twitter. The Border Patrol having horses taken away from them being the latest example.

Never mind the fact that it doesn't even solve the problem.

Someone else said it, but it was telling that the admin banned horses and not whips.

 

[Kramer on the phone]

one thing that really surprised me on opinion polls about trump was how stable his approval and disapproval ratings were. usually 1/3rd of the population goes from liking you to hating you, by the end of it. but most people's opinions were already set in stone from day 1 to his last day. hell biden's swung more in the last 2 months than trumps in 4 years.

 

[Kane Lives]

one thing that really surprised me on opinion polls about trump was how stable his approval and disapproval ratings were. usually 1/3rd of the population goes from liking you to hating you, by the end of it. but most people's opinions were already set in stone from day 1 to his last day. hell biden's swung more in the last 2 months than trumps in 4 years.

I don't think it's surprising as it should be. Think about it, aside from the constant media blitz of "ORANGE MAN BAD", Trump himself actually accrued very little scandals in his administration.

Think back to the 2016 to 2020 period. What scandal or incident was he embroiled in that had both parties up in arms? There was no Fall of Kabul, or looming energy crisis, or the continuing dislocation of Branch COVIDians lockdowns. Aside from a lot of bluster about withdrawing from international green treaties, and cutting back unpopular Obama-era programs (which is generally supported by his base), he has not actually tried to actively piss off the public, despite what Twattards like to believe.

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

It was inevitable once the civil war kicked off. She's the most public of the Progs and needed to be put in her place to give the Establishment some breathing room. It's not a bad move, but whoever decided to do it will know what it means. It gives them breathing room, but is very public. The Progs will seek vengeance, equally as public. Does this herald the end of the civil war being quiet? Or was it merely a public move to provide room for a plan? I do not know, but those are the two likely options.

Progs are now autistically focusing on Israel and want to introduce a bill endorsing the 2 state solution. No idea why they want to double down on that massive L

 

[Gehenna]

Progs are now autistically focusing on Israel and want to introduce a bill endorsing the 2 state solution. No idea why they want to double down on that massive L

Because it plays well with the Democrat base, and by doubling down on it they force the Establishment to bleed support.

 

[Oxous]

Progs are now autistically focusing on Israel and want to introduce a bill endorsing the 2 state solution. No idea why they want to double down on that massive L

Never ask a woman her age
A man his salary
A progressive their opinion on Israel

 

[Salubrious]

I don't think it's surprising as it should be. Think about it, aside from the constant media blitz of "ORANGE MAN BAD", Trump himself actually accrued very little scandals in his administration.

Think back to the 2016 to 2020 period. What scandal or incident was he embroiled in that had both parties up in arms? There was no Fall of Kabul, or looming energy crisis, or the continuing dislocation of Branch COVIDians lockdowns. Aside from a lot of bluster about withdrawing from international green treaties, and cutting back unpopular Obama-era programs (which is generally supported by his base), he has not actually tried to actively piss off the public, despite what Twattards like to believe.

They were getting so desperate for anything in 2020 that Trump would sign middle eastern peace deals and CNN would focus on how everyone was maskless.

 

[CrippleThreat]

one thing that really surprised me on opinion polls about trump was how stable his approval and disapproval ratings were. usually 1/3rd of the population goes from liking you to hating you, by the end of it. but most people's opinions were already set in stone from day 1 to his last day. hell biden's swung more in the last 2 months than trumps in 4 years.

Think about it, aside from the constant media blitz of "ORANGE MAN BAD", Trump himself actually accrued very little scandals in his administration.

DJT's polling (the more legit ones, that is) was basically centered on how scared Independents were from news pumped out by Corporate Media and Press, and/or how much they wanted the noise to stop.

And niggers really stand firm on how that conjured fear translating into the 2020 election was normal and on the up-and-up. Fuck policy and record, after all!

 

[Hüftpriester]

Here is the archive, because the NY Times site is dumb.

https://archive.md/62Kb0

I am going to spend ZERO seconds defending Cuomo, but this is a prime example of why you should never make a token PR apology. Because they will use your PR apology as proof of guilt in the public eye.

Based Cuomo grabbin bitches asses in front of their beta husbands

I was at the party with my husband, who sat behind me on an ottoman sipping his Diet Coke as I spoke with work friends

 

[Salubrious]

Wow. Yahoo just literally blatantly made my point for me: the "apology email" as the smoking gun.

Never apologize unless you've actually done something wrong.

 

[Oxous]

(tweet) (link to the poll)
A continuation of an actual trend that has been taking place in South Texas: Latinos in large populated areas near the border deciding that maybe the GOP isn't so bad
Hidalgo County, TX (Mission/McAllen)

Val Verde County, TX (Del Rio)

Cameron County, TX (Brownsville)

 

[deeplyhigh]

Archived poll results: https://archive.li/olw5a

All the retards who wanted Afgan refugees for their food and all they got was child rape.
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Congratulation Twitter fucks, enjoy what you wanted.

Late response because I‘ve been busy working to pay for the rapefugee gibs Biden is forcing upon us but…this is not the first time Fort McCoy has dealt with this. History sadly repeats itself.