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It's important to note how the Black Panthers used "violence". There were very few incidents where they actually fired their guns, and when they did, they were arguably baited into doing it by the FBI and local cops.

Their best tactic was just hanging around with an AK on their back while a cop did their racial profiling thing to somebody else. They'd keep a book of laws handy and give the person advice from the sidelines. If they didn't have a gun, the cop would likely have found some pretext to arrest them and that'd be it. With a gun, the cop thinks twice and puts up with it. It wasn't there to actually be fired, but to make sure everyone behaved themselves.

This was so effective they changed California's open carry law to stop it. It's estimated that there were only around 100 Black Panthers at the time.

Yeah, probably. They've been suppressed for so long that they're itching to use violent tactics when they don't really understand how violence is a careful, strategic tool for the left.

Troops are being moved into cities and they will keep being sent to more cities.

Which is important. Make them want to cover every city in America. The problem for them is that they can't. There aren't enough regular troops, National Guard, and ICE agents put together to make it work. They'll be spread too thin.

That really highlights the importance of protests. If it was just New York it would fail. If it was just Chicago it would fail. If it were just LA it would fail. If we signal that we're all going to work together on this, they can't possibly do it.

Been a while since I read it, but Larry Niven had a whole essay on this subject:

https://larryniven.net/?q=man-of-steel-woman-of-kleenex-by-larry-niven

My best guess is that it gets sold off to the company who buys the most $1M/plate dinners with Trump.

Part of what saved AMD was spinning off their fabs into a separate company. Besides the cash flow, they could focus on design and weren't hitched to what their own fabs could produce. They could choose the best fab contract they could afford.

Pat Gelsinger floated the idea of spinning off the fabs, but the US government shut it down as part of the deal for building new fabs with government money. The fabs that Intel may not even finish now.

Another factor for AMD was having their SoC in consoles. Kept some cash flow going when they desperately needed it. Intel doesn't have that benefit, either. AMD owns the PS5 and Xbox, while Nvidia has Nintendo. Steam Deck-like handhelds are a small but growing market, and all the ones people want to buy run AMD.

So the question comes up of what Intel can even do for cash flow. Their GPU division might start showing real profit in another generation, but they have to survive that long while taking a loss. One more uncompetitive generation of CPU releases will probably doom their core product, and the best they can hope for there is "not completely suck". The datacenter market was holding on because Intel has traditionally been rock solid stable, but that argument was killed with the 13th/14th gen overheating issues (which did affect equivalent server processors, as well). Their other hardware, like networking chipsets, comes with the same dark cloud looming over it, and it isn't enough to keep the company running, anyway.

Kills forms of leftisim that don't agree with them

We're the only kind of Marxism that ever succeeded!!!

That's how they did RCA in. Sad end to a glorious engineering company.

Also, there's a reason there's a song about Kodachorme and not Technicolor.

So the "realisim" here is a programmer beating themselves up over not being able to figure something out.

In fact, it probably picked up that exact attitude from being trained off of the writings of actual programmers.

So the problem with this line of thinking is seeing it as binary. What actually happens in cases of cults is that some split off, and the remainder are more fanatic than ever. For examples, see the Great Disappointment of the Adventists, or 1975 predictions with Jehovah's Witnesses.

The trouble that MAGA has is that it doesn't take many to split off before they're no longer a meaningful political force. Over the last six months, both Democrats and Republicans have been getting phone calls of death threats if they don't do everything Trump wants. Members of congress have made certain decisions because of this. That is going away.

Neat, so it's like nature's own little Conway's Game of Life.

Sam isn't exactly denying the original claim, here.