• teft@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    All of this continues to make the political class look like a bunch of absolute dipshits who have no clue what they’re doing.

    That last line is 🤌

  • small44@lemmy.worldBanned
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    4 months ago

    Basically the plan was just to force bytedance to sell the app and the ban was just to make pressure to achieve that goal

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      4 months ago

      And they said they will not sale it so fucking stupid. Biden could just left alone, but now he wants to do something? How about stop fascist from taking over the government.

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        How about stop fascist from taking over the government.

        He can’t. The majority of voting Americans want it and voted for it.

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          Exactly. What do you want him to do? Attempt a coup to stay in power? Americans voted for this and nobody is coming to save you.

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            Supreme Court gave him immunity, hell he fucking old as shit. He could kill the lot of them, we build moments in his honor if he took that one act and sava America.

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              Yeah, I’m sure if Biden had Trump and company murdered, the majority of Americans that voted for Trump and company would be totally fine with that and build “moments” in honor of Biden, who they see as their enemy.

              Are you high?

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                Autocorrected when out of the field of vision, from personal experience. It’s not that hard to see what they mean, unless someone is more invested in “winning” by petty means.

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          I wouldnt say they wanted fascism, a lot of voters just didnt want any more Biden.

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            a lot of voters just didnt want any more Biden.

            Anti-democratic felon rapist and sieg heiling oligarch it is then!!!

            Maybe those fools should have thought this one out a little more. They were warned.

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    And one more time on the way out, the Democrats fuck themselves. Biden should have let it stand and blame it on the Rs.

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      They don’t want Trump to get the credit for overturning the ban. So. Ow they are trying to rush it so that Biden can try to take credit.

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    I’m not convinced having a specific ruling targeting just tiktok would be a good move. I think I understand and side with all the reasons they are doing it: be it privacy, security and more. But they should not uniquely apply to tiktok, but to all apps. If suddenly there’s a Russian app, or a Nigerian app or a swiss app, any which for whatever reasons has security and privacy concerns, they should all be held to the same standards. Me no like double standards.

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      TikTok ban is a political move. TikTok sends a message to China and protects Israel in one swoop. It has nothing to do with security or privacy of the American people. Biden thought TikTok was disposable collateral. They provided not one ounce of evidence that TikTok is used by the CCP to collect information on Americans. Much less the logic or evidence as to the value to the Chinese having American data when they got 1.4 billion people of their own. You need to learn politics. Biden got cold feet because he is worried about his legacy.

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        His legacy is already set. He will forever be remembered as a clueless man whos actions in office contridicted himself at many points.

        Should have Bernie instead.

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      I’d say trying to take a victory lap for a Gaza ceasefire a couple days before leaving office, when he’s been the one sending all the $17 billion of bombs and missiles that are being fired at Gazan kids in the first place, takes the top spot.

      This is also stupid, ineffective, and incompetent, but with a significantly lower body count.

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    Love how the shit article keeps referring to Tiktoker as kids, as if it’s an app only used by infantile adults.

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    Trump has expressed a keen interest in being seen as rescuing a platform on which he’s been told he’s widely admired…

    Whoever did this is a fucking genius. They love you on TikTok, you gotta save them!

    Meanwhile on TikTok, another update of old labor movement songs.

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      He actually does have a large following on Tiktok. There’s Republicantok, but you won’t see it if you’re not a Republican or leaning that way.

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    I’m not convinced having a specific ruling targeting just tiktok would be a good move. I think I understand and side with all the reasons they are doing it: be it privacy, security and more. But they should not uniquely apply to tiktok, but to all apps. If suddenly there’s a Russian app, or a Nigerian app or a swiss app, any which for whatever reasons has security and privacy concerns, they should all be held to the same standards. Me no like double standards.

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      It’s never been about data, it’s an awakening of class conscientiousness from people that threatens their existence and power. Now that people can see the lies we’ve always been told about China via RedNote we believe them even less.